Heila Lotz-Sisitka (0000-0002-5193-9881)

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Heila Lotz-Sisitka holds the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) Chair in Global Change and Social Learning Systems. Based in the Environmental Learning Research Centre at Rhodes University (South Africa), Lotz- Sisitka is a Professor in Education. Her research over 25 years has focussed broadly on education system development and transformative social learning for green, more socially just and sustainable economies and societies at local, regional, and international levels. Heila’s research produces knowledge at the science-society interface, focusing on how learning leads development. This is critical for enabling a climate resilient development path in South Africa, and for facilitating access to new job opportunities opening up within the green economy.

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Rhodes University: Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, ZA

2018-01-01 to present | Distinguished Professor (Environmental Learning Research Centre)

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Heila Lotz-Sisitka

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5193-9881

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Rhodes University: Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, ZA

Rhodes University: Grahamstown, Eastern Cape , ZA

Rhodes University: Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, ZA

Rhodes University: Grahamstown, Eastern Cape , ZA

Rhodes University: Grahamstown, Eastern Cape , ZA

Juta and Company Ltd: Cape Town, Western Cape , ZA

University of Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch , Western Cape , ZA

Cape Education Department : Plettenberg Bay, Cape Province, ZA

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch, Western Cape , ZA

University of Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch, Western Cape , ZA

University of Port Elizabeth: Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape , ZA

Professional activities (14)

Invited Plenary Presentation: Global Change and Social Learning Systems: Polokwane, ZA

Leuphana University: Lüneburg, DE

Keynote Address: The stinking ontology of sh#t in the water: Maynooth University, Dublin, IE

Keynote address: African Food Systems and the SDGs Conference 2018: Dakar, SN

Uppsala University: Uppsala, SE

Plenary Paper: Transgressive Learning Research Meeting: Transformations to Sustainability Meeting, Fukuoka, JP

Keynote Paper: 'The First thing to find is Justice': Balatonszemes, HU

Conference paper: Transformations to Sustanability Programme Meeting: Fukuoka, JP

Keynote Address: International Education Association of South Africa Conference: Pretoria, ZA

Sustainability Institute: Cape Town, ZA

Plenary Presentation: Review of the T-learning Programme: Armenia, CO

Keynote Address: Future Earth Seedbeds Conference: Port Elizabeth, ZA

Opening Plenary Address: Final UNESCO Susstanability Starts with Teachers Workshop: Johannesburg, ZA

Invited plenary paper: 14th International Invitational Seminar on Envrionment and Sustainability Education Research: Stellenbosch, ZA

Funding (22)

Chair in Global Change and Social Learning Systems

International Social Science Council (ISSC) Transformations to Sustainability

Development Bank of South Africa Green Fund Grant

Fundisa for Change

Conservation, Agriculture, Tourism and Hospitality and Sport Sector Education and Training Authority (CATHSSETA)

Fundisa for Change Teacher Education Programme

Water Research Commission (WRC) Research Grant

Africa Environmental Education and Training Action Plan

Southern African Universities Association

Heritage and Learning for Sustainable Development

Strengthening publishing Sandisa Imbewu

Climate Change Education in South Africa

Social Learning in the Water Sector

Social Learning and Community Based Natural Resources Management

Environmental Sector Skills Plan

International Training Programme for universities in Africa

Workplace Learning and Sustainability Practices

Scholarship Trust Fund

SADC REEP Universities Research Programme

M.Ed Studies

Multi-disciplinary water research team of University faculties and an NGO

South African National Environmental Education Research Programme

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Mainstreaming social and emotional learning in education systems: Executive summary

Mainstreaming social and emotional learning in education systems: Policy guide

Interrelated transformative process dynamics in the face of resource nexus challenges: an invitation towards cross case analysis

Bringing river health into being with citizen science: River commons co-learning and practice

Engaged sustainability science and place-based transgressive learning in higher education

Sustainability science engagement and engaged sustainability science

Towards a Politics of Transgression in Environmental Education Research: Meta-review of a T-Learning Research ‘Archive’

Regional, epistemic, educative, and political-ecological dynamics of an internationalisation at home model

A landscape view of emerging sustainability responses within VET

Oil, transport, water and food: a political-economy-ecology lens on VET in a climate changing world

E-learning as a mediating tool to support interactive professional learning of teacher educators

Taking the moral authorship of children and youth seriously in times of the Anthropocene

Chapter 11: Assisting Learners to Take Up Agency in Problem-Solving Activities

Chapter 12: Advancing Assessment Thinking in Education for Sustainable Development with a Focus on SignificantLearning Processes

Chapter 13: Emergent Curriculum and Sustainability Competencies in Environmental Learning

Chapter 14: Formative Assessment for Quality Environmental Learning in Natural Sciences Classrooms

Chapter 16: Enhancing Capabilities of Life Sciences Teachers: Professional Development, Conversion Factorsand Functionings in Teachers’ ProfessionalLearning Communities