The Emerging Face of Environmental Education in South Africa's Formal Education: Curriculum 2005 and the Environmental Education Curriculum Initiative

Abstract

An indication is given of how the Republic of South Africa's new school curriculum, Curriculum 2 005, provides significant opportunity for the inclusion of environmental education. Aspects of the important role played by the Environmental Education Curriculum Initiative in the infusion of environmental education into Curriculum 2 005 are outlined. The paper discusses several of the many challenges to be addressed in the implementation of Curriculum 2 005 and its environmental education potential, and concludes with reference to the particular place of teacher education in this process.