The Competence-Based Curriculum and Education for Sustainable Development: Exploring the opportunities for education transformation in Rwanda

我的研究重点是全球呼吁教育系统转型，以修复根深蒂固的不公正和不平等，以及建立气候适应能力和可持续的生计。这项博士研究的总部设在卢旺达，尽管面临挑战，但那里的教育改革得到了强有力的政治支持，这项博士研究试图通过将超常的可持续发展教育(ESD)方法纳入新引入的以能力为基础的课程(CBC)来探索结构和变革的潜力。这项研究将形成一个跨学科和共同参与的调查，与艾伯丁裂谷保护协会(ARCOS)合作，一个由教师、学生和家长组成的研究小组，与非政府组织、部委和地区代表以及卢旺达六所生态学校的学者一起参与。将特别关注在研究设计和可持续发展教育联合制作过程中可识别的环境和认知正义观点及其在学校和更广泛社区中产生的影响。我希望研究成果将对课程调整产生重要影响，提供实用指导和新的教学工具，指导可持续发展教育在CBC框架内的成功整合。

My research is focused on the global call for education system transformation towards the repair of entrenched injustices and inequalities, and the building of climate resilience and sustainable livelihoods. Based in Rwanda where, despite challenges, there is strong political support for education transformation, this doctoral research seeks to explore the potential for structural and transformative change through the integration of transgressive Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) methodologies into the newly introduced Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC). The research will form a transdisciplinary and co-engaged inquiry, collaborating with the Albertine Rift Conservation Society (ARCOS) and involving a research team of teachers, students, and parents, with NGO, ministry and district representatives, and academics in six Rwandan Eco-Schools. Particular focus will be brought to environmental and epistemic justice perspectives identifiable both during the research design and within the ESD co-production processes and resulting impacts happening in the schools and their wider communities.I hope that the research outcomes will have an instrumental impact on curriculum adaptation, providing practical guidance and new pedagogical tools to guide the successful integration of ESD within a CBC framework.