Thematic lead:Heila Lotz-Sisitka
Co-lead: Injairu Kulundu
Peer Reviewer: Alexander Leicht (UNESCO), Rafael Mitchell (Bristol University), Experencia Jalasi (Lilongwe University of Agriculture, Cecilia Njenga United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Lead Organisation: Rhodes University
The COVID-19 crisis erupted as a global health pandemic that has been spreading at an unprecedented rate across the world. So far, African countries have not been as badly affected as some of the countries in Europe, but signs are that community spread is still on the rise in most countries. There is therefore much uncertainty as to how this pandemic will play out in Africa and what its impacts might be. Currently health, food, water, economies, livelihoods, and education systems are heavily impacted by the rapid lockdown strategies implemented by governments to curtail the spread of the pandemic. While results have been good in terms of flattening the curve and containing spread (at least initially), much uncertainty remains as to how to respond to and deal with the ‘fall out’ of the pandemic in terms of the intersecting concerns.
The main question of this theme is ‘What can we learn from this intersecting crisis for transforming education for sustainable futures in southern African countries’.
The research process will generate a few additional questions including, but not limited to:
We will focus our questions into two phases: An exploratory phase in which we will surface the intersecting concerns briefly introduced above, and a synthesis phase, in which we will begin to ‘pull together’ our insights to offer a synthesis view on our topic.
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