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A case study from a gold mining company : a call for leadership towards more sustainable futures
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Gold mining in South Africa is an industry that is more than a century old. The impact of gold mines on communities and the environment are enormous. This thesis is a case study based in one of the major ... -
A critical analysis of the Gqunube Green Ecovillage project
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-12)The word ‘ecovillage’ is evocative of a kind of human settlement that exists in complete harmony with nature and examples of such settlements are indeed in existence almost everywhere in the world, some nearly half a ... -
Early childhood development as a pathway to sustainable community development
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigated the possibilities of early childhood development (ECD) as pathway to sustainable community development by means of a literature survey and practical research. The main objectives ... -
Education for sustainable futures : an appropriate approach for early childhood development from birth to five years
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The 21st century is marked by numerous challenges ranging from environmental degradation, resource depletion, pollution, poverty and inequality to poor education outcomes especially in the global south. ... -
Exploring a sustainability imagination : a perspective on the integrating and visioning role of stories and symbolism in sustainability through an alternative education case study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-03)In a modern world of fragmentation and embedded dualisms, access to the imagination and creativity seems minimal, especially in science. Human beings and nature, science and the imagination (art), and spirit and matter ... -
"God has locked the sky" : exploring traditional farming systems in Tigray, Ethiopia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Tigray region in northern Ethiopia is a historic centre of agricultural production and home to many subsistence farmers that still use traditional farming systems and practise rain-fed agriculture. ... -
Incorporating an Earth Jurisprudence approach into South African environmental law for the protection of endangered species : options and challenges
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Many South African species and habitats are threatened by various human activities including illegal poaching of species such as rhinos, which is threatening the survival of the species. This study explores ... -
The integration of school garden activities, the classroom and the feeding scheme : a case study of two primary schools in Tigray, North Ethiopia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In an increasingly complex world where food security remains a challenge in many areas and especially Africa; it is essential to educate children about food – from production to consumption; and to ... -
Just facilitation : facilitating sustainable social change in contexts of injustice
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: See ful text for abstract -
Methods of engagement; a transdisciplinary learning approach to the problem of the Eerste River
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: The concern of this study is with the persistent crisis of the Eerste River in Stellenbosch and its relevance in the Anthropocene. In this study, the river is both a lens onto uneven urban development ... -
On my watch : a review of the environmental education literature with particular reference to South Africa, and South African teenagers
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: About half a million students matriculate from South African high schools each year, with limited environmental education and an underdeveloped capacity to live sustainable lives. This does not seem to ... -
Project proposal : to construct and manage Moya weKhaya - spirit of home : a cultural centre in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study consists of a proposal to construct and manage Moya weKhaya, a cultural centre on a vacant site linked to an existing park in A Section, Khayelitsha. The cultural centre is an innovative ... -
The role of indigenous governance system(s) in sustainable development : a case of Moshupa Village, Botswana
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2007-03)The study investigates the role of indigenous governance systems in sustainable development at Moshupa, Botswana. Due to time limitations, this research study has only been able to provide a basic understanding of the role ... -
Spaces for enchantment and the unknown : fairy tales, complexity thinking and a search for new ways of dreaming : children-centred sustainable development
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03)This research explores spaces for enchantment and the unknown, exploring our relationship to fairy-tales and alternative ways of dreaming that break from a modern worldview, using complexity thinking as lens. I conducted ... -
Spirituality and nature in the transformation to a more sustainable world : perspectives of South African change agents
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The central premise of this thesis is that humans are disconnected and alienated from Nature and it proposes that we need to attempt to restore this connection in order to overcome the current socioecological ... -
Towards a “new moment” in Life Sciences Education: Facilitating critical complexity thinkers in South African secondary schools
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: The global polycrisis, particularly ecological degradation and humans’ estrangement from nature, is an epistemological crisis that has been created by an industrial, mechanistic and reductionist way of ... -
Towards sustainable futures : exploring ecological learning in early childhood development
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The end of the 20st and beginning of the 21st century is characterised by a multiplicity of ecological complexities and alterations that are impacting both nature and humankind negatively. Such ecological ...
