Green Education Programs Going beyond the Gowns and Caps: Focusing and Promoting Sustainable Home Grown Solutions in the Face of Adversity in Africa
Author : Chingozha MP, Ruvengo L and Chingozha Y
Abstract :
There is no contestation that Africa has the capacity to recognize opportunities within its various sectors in view of the many resources she is endowed with. These resources include but not limited to gold, lithium, diamonds, arable land with fertile soils and chrome. The insight that can be gleaned from the business intelligence and analytics is one indicating that green education has transformative prowess for economies that embrace the green curriculum, since the 21st century has undeniably come with many challenges and demands that require a lot of critical thinking, creativeness, ingenuity and innovativeness (Chingozha and Ruvengo, 2022). Resultantly, all learning institutions are implored to ensure that their curriculum prepare graduates that will be ready to address the challenges and demands of their communities head on. This would undoubtedly change the life and livelihoods of the people within various communities consistent with the views of Toffler Alvin (2016: 24) who stated that, ‘…those that are going to be illiterate in the 21st century are not only those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot unlearn, learn and relearn.’ The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and indeed any other protocols could remain void and a pipe dream without education. In this vein education is viewed as being integral to all other SDGs since talent alone is in adequate. Through innovation that is sufficiently backed by government through the education 5.0. This study revealed that greening the education curriculum guarantees that the societies will be able to effectively adapt to their environments.
Keywords :
Green education, home grown solutions, face of adversity, Africa, climate change, adaptation
