The Fundisa [Teaching] for Change teacher education programme has been specially designed to:

• provide substantive content and orientation to teacher educators who, given the many sustainable development challenges, are increasingly expected to support teachers to ‘teach for sustainable futures’.
• Promote Education for Sustainable Development as an integral feature of quality education, as outlined in Sustainable Development Goal 4, Target 4.7:  CLICK HERE
• Develop a deep understanding of the relationship between a healthy environment, human rights, social justice and inclusivity. The SDGs Report 2022 highlights some areas that need urgent actions CLICK HERE

• Like many national curricula around the world, South Africa’s new Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statements (CAPS) are rich in ‘environment and sustainability’ content.
• The Fundisa for Change course focuses on enhancing three essential aspects of teaching

Since the Industrial Revolution began in the late 18th century, ‘development’ has provided humankind with numerous benefits. However, progress has also caused problems, as non-renewable resources have been over-extracted, huge amounts of waste have been created, and pollution has impacted on the health of people and the environment. The Fundisa for Change programme support teachers under understand the global issues to be able to guide such useful processes for building a better world. Some of the words people are using to describe the better world and the ways in which we might build it together – include:
Equity, Sustainability, Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation

• With the drafting of the South African Constitution in 1996, the right to a healthy environment was included in the Bill of Rights. The Constitution focuses not only on present generations, but also on future generations, as it commits the country to managing and protecting its natural resources for both present and future generations.
• In 1998 the South African Government promulgated the National Environmental Management Act (RSA, 1998). The South African National Curriculum in all its forms (C2005, the NCS and now CAPS) includes a principle that the curriculum should focus on the relationship between a healthy environment, human rights, social justice and inclusivity.

All around the planet, people are working together to build a better world. These people are part of a large-scale international environmental / climate action or climate justice movement that is committed to reversing environmental degradation, improving ecosystem health and fast-tracking climate action. The movement includes international institutions (e.g. UNEP, the UNFCC and UNESCO), state departments, millions of civil society organisations, and countless individuals.