The UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development, hosted at Leuphana University Lüneburg and SETRI, is happy to invite you to the next event in its UNESCO Chair Lecture Series.
On the 19th of June, Distinguished Professor Heila Lotz-Sisitka (Rhodes University, South Africa) will present a lecture titled “De-individualising learning in transformations to sustainability: Re-thinking learning for transgressive world-making in society in the Anthropocene."
- Date: Thursday, 19 June 2025
- Time: 10:30 – 11:30 (CEST)
- Location: Room C40.146, Leuphana University campus (Universitätsallee 1, 21335 Lüneburg)
- To participate online, please register here
In her keynote, Prof. Lotz-Sisitka will present research on collective, community-based approaches to transformative learning and teacher professional development in southern Africa. Her work critically examines the limitations of individualised, cognition-centred educational models, and proposes values-driven, culturally pluralistic, and co-engaged pedagogies as essential for societal transformation in the Anthropocene.
The session will be moderated by Prof. Dr. Daniel Fischer, Professor for Sustainability Education & Communication and Holder of UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development, Leuphana University.
Heila Lotz-Sisitka holds the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) Chair in Global Change and Social Learning Systems. Her Chair is based in the Environmental Learning Research Centre at Rhodes University, South Africa which she directed for 18 years (2000-2015, 2022-2025). The current focus of the Chair's research is transformative social learning and green skills learning pathways in areas of biodiversity, the water food nexus, climate change, social and environmental justice, and just sustainability transitions. Heila’s research interests include critical research methodologies, transformative environmental learning, agency, and education system transformation.
