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Sustainability Starts with Teachers celebrates Namibia’s Environmental Education/ESD policy
Namibia launches the national Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) policy. This is the first standalone ESD policy in the SADC region. The development of the policy was a long time collaboration between government ministries and...
Zambia, Lesotho and South Africa take SST up a notch
The Sustainability Starts with Teachers (SST), is bringing together Teacher and TVET educators for an intensive regional course, following successful in-country workshops in the three countries. The course will be hosted virtually by the Environmental Learning...
2020 Progress: Lesotho, Zambia and South Africa in focus
In early March 2020, the Lesotho and Zambia country workshops were successfully held in Maseru and Lusaka. However, due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the South African in-country workshop planned for April has been postponed until May. The regional...
Lesotho gears up for Sustainability Starts with Teachers workshop
Thirty participants have been invited from various teacher education and Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions across Lesotho to attend the Capacity Building Programme for Teachers on Education for Sustainable Development (CAP-ESD), held on...
Zimbabwe Change Project peer review workshop
Five teacher education and Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions from the southern region of Zimbabwe met in Bulawayo on the 14th of February 2020 to review their Change Projects’ progression. Change Projects are transformation initiatives...
Inclusion of ESD in school curricula and activities on course
Stakeholders and participants of the Capacity-Building Programme on Education for Sustainable Development (CAP-ESD) met in Harare on 31st January 2020 to review their Change Projects. Change Projects are institutional change initiatives to support the integration of...
2019 Progress: Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana nearing completion of the first cycle
In 2019 in country workshops were held in Botswana, Zimbawbe and Nambia. From these in-country workshops, a group of 30 participants were selected to attend the Regional Training of Trainers Programme which took place at Rhodes University from 25 September to 5...
Turning dump material into useful audio visual aids for Primary School Education in Masvingo
Joseph Tsikira, a principal lecturer in the Early Childhood Development (ECE) Department at Masvingo Teachers' College dreamt of making personal contributions to teacher education development. Tsikira is one of the teacher trainers taking part in UNESCO’s...
Critical Thinking skills for Zero litter goal in Mutare
A couple of years ago, walking through the pathways of Marymount Teachers’ College one would see litter scattered everywhere. Today, the college has become the example of what zero litter means with no trace or smell of litter anywhere on the campus. This is a result...
Bindura University integrates Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Development into their course outline
In an effort to protect and preserve natural environment the Bindura University of Science Education has embarked on a project named ‘Utilisation of the Biosphere Reserves and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Science teaching and learning’. The project seeks to...
The University of Namibia comes up with creative innovations for plastic waste management
‘Don’t just throw it away, throw it into the Eco-bin!’, this is the motto for the University of Namibia students and lectures in the Change Project Team as they embark on a unique waste management project. From used plastic bottles, wires and iron bars the team has...
Re-use it or lose it: Botswana teachers convert rubbish into learning tools
Teacher trainers at Serowe College in Botswana have come up with an innovative solution: creating teaching materials from recycled rubbish.
Teacher trainers and student teachers collect, sort and clean waste material. Waste material is then used to create different learning tools like musical instruments, masks and toys. Student teachers are afforded the opportunity to explore their creative talent during this process.