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🌍Education for Sustainability: Change Projects in Southern Africa Resource Book📚
We find ourselves in an era marked by complex global challenges intertwined with local social-ecological issues. The challenge facing teacher education today is to prepare future teachers with the socio-ecological knowledge, skills, attitudes and values essential for...
Instituto de Formação de Professores de Alto Molócuè celebrates the completion of the SST course.
The members of IFP de Alto Molócuèin in Zambézia celebrated the completion of the Sustainability Starts with Teachers course with a certificate ceremony and a bottle of champagne. This team has done remarkable work. Update information on all the countries and...
Lesotho’s dream of a national Education for Sustainable Development strategy draws closer to reality
Since 2020 Lesotho has desired to have a national Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) strategy to support the country towards its vision 2030 agenda. ESD infuses key sustainable development issues into teaching and learning such as climate change, disaster...
Innovation Flourishes out of SST Change Project at Phalombe Teachers Training College in Malawi
Following the launch of PaMtondo Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Change Project at Phalombe Teachers Training College in Malawi on 10th December 2021, a situational analysis challenged teacher educators and student teachers to address overdependence on...
Sustainability Starts with Teachers Policy Dialogue features at EEASA Conference 2022 in Namibia.
The 40th Conference for the Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa (EESA), held at the University of Namibia from 23rd to 25th August 2022, featured a very esteemed activity, Sustainability Starts with Teachers (SST) policy dialogue. SST is a capacity...
Zambia embarks in drafting a National Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development
Zambia is the first of eleven SADC countries to start drafting a national Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) strategy. Elements of this strategy were discussed during a policy dialogue in Lusaka from 25-26 July as a follow up to the adoption of the SADC ESD...
Malawi moves closer to a National Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development
Malawi started drafting her own national Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) strategy in a policy dialogue in Lilongwe from 2 to 3 August 2022. Malawi is the second country after Zambia to embark on such a process. This is a follow up to the adoption of the...
Regional Education for Sustainable Development Strategic Framework approved
SADC Ministers approved the Regional Strategic Framework on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) on 17 June 2022 in Lilongwe, Malawi. The framework was highly appreciated by the Joint Meeting of SADC Ministers of Education and Training and Science, Technology...
Towards ESD for 2030: SADC Drafts an ESD Strategy
It was an exciting moment in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa when delegates from 11 SADC countries (Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) came together. When...
Action for ESD 2030: Angola and Mozambique Join Sustainability Starts with Teachers Programme
When there is a common goal, geographical locations do not matter. Angola and Mozambique, though linguistically alike, are geographically disperse. Nonetheless, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) has posed itself as a common goal for the two countries...
A Sua Vez: Angola and Mozambique kickstart the Sustainability Starts with Teachers programme
Having running for three years with Anglophone Southern African countries (Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania and Eswatini), Sustainability Starts with Teachers (SST) programme now turns to Lusophone Southern Africa with...
SADC ESD framework on the horizon
Eleven SADC countries (Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) will attend the UNESCO-SADC Policy Dialogue on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in...
First SST Course Completion Certificates Awarded!!
Dean of Education at Rhodes University, Professor Eureta Rosenberg, who started ESD courses in SADC in 1995, congratulates the 2021 Certificate awardees and all institutions involved in the SST Virtual Graduation Ceremony! By Heila Lotz-Sisitka Late October 2021 was...
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Sustainability Starts with Teachers 2021: Off to a good start with record numbers!
Sustainability Starts with Teachers 2021: Off to a good start with record numbers! Written by Heila Lotz-Sisitka and Charles Chikunda A record number of 300 participants have registered for the online 2021 Sustainability Starts with Teachers Course, as the initiative...