All Outputs (3)

TVET SI: Towards Sustainable Vocational Education and Training: Thinking beyond the formal (2023)
Journal Article
McGrath, S., & Russon, J. (2023). TVET SI: Towards Sustainable Vocational Education and Training: Thinking beyond the formal. Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 39, https://doi.org/10.4314/sajee.v39.03

Mainstream vocational education and training has been complicit in unsustainable practices due to its longstanding relationship with productivism, extractivism and colonialism. However, it is beginning to address the need to balance its dominant focu... Read More about TVET SI: Towards Sustainable Vocational Education and Training: Thinking beyond the formal.

Transitioning Vocational Education and Training in Africa: A Social Skills Ecosystem Perspective (2023)
Book
McGrath, S., Openjuru, G., Lotz-Sisitka, H., Allais, S., Zeelen, J., Wedekind, V., …Openjuru, M. (2023). Transitioning Vocational Education and Training in Africa: A Social Skills Ecosystem Perspective. Bristol: Bristol University Press

Vocational Teachers as Mediators in Complex Ecosystems (2023)
Book Chapter
Russon, J., & Wedekind, V. (2023). Vocational Teachers as Mediators in Complex Ecosystems. In Transitioning Vocational Education and Training in Africa: A Social Skills Ecosystem Perspective (97-117). Bristol: Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529224658.ch006

Vocational teachers are at the centre of complex social ecosystems, albeit often without adequate resources and recognition. The skills ecosystem literature to date does not engage with the concept of vocational teachers and their role, positionality... Read More about Vocational Teachers as Mediators in Complex Ecosystems.