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Curriculum Vitae: Rob O’Donoghue
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14 May 1951, Cork, Ireland.
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Irish / South Africa
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21 Cotterill Street, Grahamstown, 6139.
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Overview
After 7 years as a primary school teacher Rob O’Donoghue joined Ezemvelo KZN-Wildlife where he
coordinated Environmental Education services and research as Senior Professional Officer supporting activities
in park, school and local community settings for just under 20 years. During this time he established the ShareNet low-cost printing initiative with The Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa and has published
numerous open access, environmental learning materials for use in classroom and fieldwork settings. He
completed a MEd at University of Natal on ‘participatory curriculum development in the sciences’ in 1990 and
a PhD at Rhodes on ‘the emergence of environmental education in eastern southern Africa’ in 1997.
He is now an Associate Professor in the Environmental Education and Sustainability Unit at Rhodes University.
Rob has published numerous papers in internationally peer-reviewed journals and has recently given close
attention to indigenous knowledge practices, social theory and environmental learning in post-colonial
curriculum and community contexts. His work on the intermeshed bio-physical, social, economic and political
dimensions of environment, environmental education as an evaluative process and active learning are key
orientating perspectives within environment and sustainability education in southern Africa today. Recent
work on indigenous knowledge and transformative social learning is informing teacher professional
development (Fundisa for Change), citizen science and a change-choice-practices approaches to reflexive
social learning in RCE and Biosphere Reserve contexts of learner-led change towards more sustainable earth
stewardship.
Qualifications
1998
PhD. Rhodes University, Grahamstown.
1990
M.Ed. University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
1977
Cert.Ed. & B.Ed. University of Zimbabwe.
Professional Work Experience
2001-Present
Director, Gold Fields Environmental Education Services and Associate Professor in the
Environmental Education and Sustainability Unit, Education Department, Rhodes
University, Grahamstown.
1983-2001
Senior professional Officer (Education) KZN Wildlife, Pietermaritzburg
1980-1983
Class Teacher, St Charles College, Pietermaritzburg
1977-1979
Class Teacher, Riverside School, Gweru.
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Research Experience /Interests
Evaluation and Evaluation Research in Environmental learning. (O’Donoghue, 1990; 2001; 2004; 2013; 2014a
&b)
Active Teaching and Learning. (O’Donoghue, 1993; Share-Net 1994-2008; 2013; Rosenberg, 2013; Fundisa for
Change 2014)
Fieldwork, Citizen Science and Social Learning. (Share-Net 1993-2014; Graham and Taylor 2004; O’Donoghue,
2005a; 2006; 2007; River Learning Box 2014)
Indigenous Knowledge Practices and transformative learning. (O’Donoghue 2002; O’Donoghue and
Neluvhalani, 2002, O’Donoghue 2003a; 2006; O’Donoghue and Mandikonza, 2007; Shave et.al. 2008;
O’Donoghue et.al 2013, O’Donoghue, 2014.)
Social Theory; Science Education, Interpretation; Process Sociology; Learning Theory; Sustainability commons of
low Impact Technologies. (O’Donoghue and Sisitka, 2005; O’Donoghue et.al. 2006; O’Donoghue, 2014c)
Current Areas of Teaching
Environmental Education in PhD, MEd research programmes.
Co-ordinator of PhD Programme, Faculty of Education.
PGCE Intermediate Phase
PGCE Intermediate, Senior and FET Curriculum History and change
Fundisa for Change Teacher Professional Development
Publications in Peer Reviewed Journals
O'Donoghue, R. B. (1986) Environmental education and evaluation: An eleventh hour reconciliation. Southern
African Journal of Environmental Education, 3 (November): 18-21.
O'Donoghue, R. B. (1987) Environments people and environmental education: A story of bananas, frogs and
the process of change. Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 5 (August): 11-14.
O'Donoghue, R.B. and Taylor, J. (1988) Towards participant-centred resource development for Environmental
Education. Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 7: 3-5.
O'Donoghue, R.B. and Mc Naught, C. (1991) Environmental Education: The development of a curriculum
through 'grass-root' reconstructive action. International Journal of Science Education,13 (4): 391-404.
O'Donoghue, R. B. (1993) In search of CLEAR ACTION in Environmental Education. Southern African Journal of
Environmental Education, 13: 28-38.
O'Donoghue, R. B. (1994) A grand plan for earth-love education in southern Africa: The dream becomes a
nightmare. So, what went wrong? Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 14: 35-45.
O’Donoghue, R.; Lotz-Sisitka, H. (2002) Insights on the Gap. Environmental Education Research 8(3), 261-271.
UK and New York, Carfax Publishing, Taylor and Francis.
O’Donoghue, R. (2003a) Indigenous Knowledge: Towards learning materials and methodologies that respond
to social processes of marginalisation and appropriation in Eastern southern Africa. Australian Journal of
Environmental Education 19: 57-68.
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O’Donoghue, R.B. and Russo, V. (2004) Emerging patterns of Abstraction in Environmental Education: A review
of materials, methods and professional development perspectives. Environmental Education Research 10(3),
331-351. UK and New York, Carfax Publishing, Taylor and Francis.
O’Donoghue, R. B. & Lotz-Sisitka, H. (2005) Environmental Education and Professional Development: A review
of methods and materials in/as emerging patterns of practice in a developing context in southern African.
Environmental Education Research
O’Donoghue, R.B. (2005a) Cholera in KwaZulu-Natal: Uncovering blind spots in taken for granted institutional
perspectives. Southern African Journal of Environmental Education.
O’Donoghue, R. B. (2005b) A review of research on nature’s nature, its inscription in language and memory
work on relating to the natural world. Environmental Education Research
O’Donoghue, R. (2006). Locating the environmental in environmental education research: a review of
research on nature’s nature, its inscription in language and recent memory work on relating to the natural
world. Environmental Education Research Journal. 12 (3-4): 345-358.
O’Donoghue, R. & Lotz-Sisitka, H. (2006a). Situated learning, rubbish and risk reduction in southern Africa at
the start of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. Australian Journal of Environmental
Education.
O’Donoghue, R.; Lotz-Sisitka, H. (2006b) Towards a better grasp of what matters on view of ‘the posts.’
Environmental Education Research, Special Edition on Post-Posts. UK and New York, Carfax Publishing, Taylor
and Francis.
O’ Donoghue, R. 2007. Environment and Sustainability Education in a Changing South Africa: A critical
historical analysis of outline schemes for defining and guiding learning interactions. Southern African Journal of
Environmental Education (Special Edition). 24: 141-157.
Lotz-Sisitka, H.B., O’Donoghue, R, and Robottom, I. (2007). Editorial. Southern African Journal of Environmental
Education (Special Edition). 24: 5-7.
Edited Books:
O’Donoghue, R.B., Shava, S. and Zazu, C. (2013) African heritage knowledge in the context of social innovation.
United Nations University Institute for Advanced Studies. Tokyo, UNU-IAS.
Chapters in books:
Masuku-van Damme. L, and O'Donoghue, R.B. (2002) Indigenous Knowledge in/ for /as Environmental
Education. In, The Long walk to Sustainability. A publication prepared for the World Summit on Sustainable
Development, August, 2002. Johannesburg: Information Handling Services.
O'Donoghue, R.B. (2002) Towards an endogenous re-appropriation of indigenous knowledge. In Crossman, P.
(2002) (Ed.) Teaching Endogenous Knowledge in South Africa: Issues, approaches and aids. University of
Pretoria.
O’Donoghue, R.B. (2004) Marrying Indigenous ways of knowing and Western Science. African Forum For
Children's Literacy In Science and Technology (AFCLIST).
O’Donoghue, R.B., Moate, M., Goduka, L. & Wieme-vanBaren, J. (2005) Indigenous ways of knowing. In le
Roux, C. (Ed) (2005) Our Environment, Our Stories: A collection of case stories of environmental education
research in southern Africa. Pretoria, University of South Africa.
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O’Donoghue, R., Lotz-Sisitka, H., Asafo-Adjei, R., Kota, L. and Hanisi, N. (2006). Exploring learning interactions
arising in school-in-community contexts of socio-ecological risk. In Wals, A (eds) Social Learning towards a
sustainable world. Kluwer Academic Publishers (Netherlands). Pp 435- 447.
O’Donoghue, R., et.al (2014a) Towards an evaluation tool kit for Regional Centres of Expertise (RCEs) in
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). In (Ed) Fadeva, Z UNU-IAS.
O’Donoghue, R., (2014b) Navigating a shifting landscape to construct a tool for orientating and evaluating
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Regional Centres of Expertise (RCEs) In ESD Research
Handbook.
O’Donoghue, R. (2014c) Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and the framing of transformative social
learning in Regional Centres of Expertise (RCEs). In Fadeva, Z. (Ed) ESD in RCEs. Tokoyo, United Nations
University- Institute for Advanced Studies.
O’Donoghue, R. (2014d) Working with Critical Realist perspective and tools at the interface of indigenous and
scientific knowledge in a science curriculum setting. In Lotz-Sisitka, H. and Price, L. (eds)
Monographs:
O'Donoghue, R. B. and Janse van Rensburg, E. (1999) Indigenous myth, story and knowledge in/as
environmental education processes. Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa, Monograph
Number 3: 92-111.
Mascarenhas, J. and O’Donoghue, R.B. (1999) (Eds) Participatory Rural Appraisal workbook for KZN rural
development partnerships, KZN Wildlfe, Pietermaritzburg.
Jickling, B.; Lotz-Sisitka, H., O’Donoghue, R. & Ogbuigwe, A. (2006). Environmental Education, Ethics and
Action: A workbook to get started. Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme.
Lotz-Sisitka, H. and O'Donoghue,R. (2008) Participation, situated culture and practical reason. In: Participation
and Learning- Perspectives on Education and the Environment, Health and Sustainability. Springer. United
Kingdom. First Edition. 2008. 111-127. ISBN:978-1-4020-6415-9.
Research reports and manuals
O'Donoghue, R. B. (1989) PEP-UP: A participatory evaluation of the Umgeni Valley Project. Wildlife and
Environment Society of Southern Africa, Howick.
O'Donoghue, R.B. (2001) Investigation Report: Environmental Centres in Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife protected
areas. Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, Pietermaritzburg, January, 2001.
O’Donoghue, R.B. (2000) An Evaluation of Environmental Education Centres in KwaZulu Natal Wildlife. EKZN
Wildlife, Pietermaritzburg.
Moore, K. and O’Donoghue, R.B. (2004) An Evaluation of Gold Fields Centres in SAN Park Protected Areas. SAN
Parks, Pretoria.
Lotz-Sisitka, H.B, Schudel, I., O’Donoghue, R, and Irwin, P. (2007). Schools and Sustainability in South Africa:
Piloting a Reflexive Model for Accredited In-service Teacher Education. In McKeown, R (eds) Good Practices in
Education for Sustainable Development. UNESCO, Paris. pp 47- 54.
O’Donoghue, R.B., (2013) A toolkit for the evaluation of the transformative learning initiatives of Regional
Centres of Expertise (RCEs). Environmental Learning Research Centre, Grahamstown, Rhodes University.
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Short papers and reports
O'Donoghue, R. B. (1990) Environmental Education, Evaluation and curriculum change: The case of the Action
Ecology Project 1985-1989. Unpublished Master of Education Thesis, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
O'Donoghue, R. B. (1998) Detached Harmonies: A study in/on developing social processes of environmental
education in eastern southern Africa. Unpublished PhD thesis, Rhodes University, Grahamstown.
O'Donoghue, R.B. (2001) Environment and Active Learning: NEEP guidelines for facilitating and assessing active
learning in OBE. Howick: Share-Net
O'Donoghue, R.B. and Neluvhalani, E. (2002) Indigenous knowledge: Some methods and methodological
perspectives for school curriculum contexts. In Janse van Rensburg, E. (Ed) Environmental Education Ethics and
Action. EEASA Monograph. Pretoria, Human Sciences Research Council.
O'Donoghue, R.B. (2003b) A review of emerging perspectives on learning, skills development and training in
park and neighbouring community settings. Working group 5: Learning, skills development and training, World
Parks Congress, Durban Convention Centre, September 11-13, 2003.
O'Donoghue,R and Mandikonza,C. (2007) Indigenous knowledge practices: A basis for locally relevant, practice
based environmental learning in the sciences. World Environmental Education Congress. International
Convention Centre, Durban. South Africa. July 2007.
O’Donoghue, R.B., Shallcross, T, le Roux, C., Loubser, C. and Lupele, J. (2008) Promoting sustainable
development through whole school approaches: an international, intercultural teacher education research and
development project.
Lotz-Sisitka,H, O'Donoghue,R, and Wilmot,D. (2008) Experiments in social learning. In: The Makana Regional
Centre of Expertise in Education for Sustainable Development occasional paper No.2. Lotz-Sisitka,H,
O'Donoghue,R and Wilmot, D (Eds) Rhodes University. Grahamstown. 2008. (Paper No 2), 1-19.
Shava,S, O'Donoghue,R, Krasny,ME, Zazu,C and Mukute,M. (2008) Traditional food crops as a source of
community resilience in Zimbabwe. PELUM South Africa Indaba. PELUM South Africa Indaba, Pietermaritzburg.
South Africa. June 2008.
Rosenberg, E., Olvitt, L. and O’Donoghue, R.B. (2012) Fundisa for Change Environments and Methods book.
Grahamstown, ELRC, Rhodes University.
O’Donoghue, R.B. (2013) CAPS Framework for active teaching and learning. Grahamstown, Fundisa for Change.
Edited Share-Net Resource Materials
Action Ecology workbook. Howick, Share-Net (1990-1995)
Hands-On Inland and Coastal Habitats. Howick, Share-Net (1992-present)
GREEN water quality monitoring kits. Howick, Share-Net. (1993-1995)
Enviro-Facts (Ed) Paxton, 1996. Howick, Share-Net. (1995 updated 2002 – present)
Enviro-Picture-Building, City, Farm, Catchment and Nature Reserve. Howick, Share-Net. (1996-present)
Audit Water Quality and water use low-cost kit. Howick, Share-Net. (1996-present)
Hand-Prints for Change, 2010. Howick, Share-Net. (2008-present)
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River Learning Box, 2011. Howick, Share-Net. (2010-present)
Invited International conference contributions (keynotes)
O’Donoghue R. B. (2003) EE process of situated learning and change. Plenary paper presented at the Biennial
Conference of the Australian Association of Environmental Education, Brisbane.
O’Donoghue, R. B. (2007) Conservation education, stewardship and social learning. Plenary paper presented
at the C.A.P.E. Conservation Education and Stewardship Summit, Cape Town, 17 April 2007.
O’Donoghue, R.B. (2010) Ecological modeling, narrative representations and fieldwork in the development of
systems thinking for social learning-to-change. Plenary paper, SAARMSTE Edgewood Campus UKZN.
O’Donoghue, R.B. (2012) Social Learning Commons for community-engaged research and small-scale social
innovation. Plenary paper, Africa meeting of RCEs, Mina, NIGERIA.
O’Donoghue, R.B. (2013) ESD and transformative learning in RCEs. Plenary paper, 7th Global Congress of RCEs.
UNESCO and UNU-AIS, Nairobi, Kenya.
Post-Graduate Research Supervision
Graduated M.Ed (Environmental Education) - 26
Graduated PhD (Environmental Education) – 3
Editorial Board and Advisory Committee Membership:
Co-Editor of the Southern African Journal of Environmental Education (a SAPSE accredited Journal, 2000 2012)
Editorial Board Member, Australian Journal of Environmental Education (2004 – 2012)
International advisory committee, Coastal Same knowledge practices and the science curriculum. Alta,
Norway. (2010)
GIZ Expert-Net in Education for Sustainable Development with Germany, India, Mexico and South Africa (2009present)
Membership of Professional Organisations:
Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa (1984 - present)
Southern African Association of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (2008-present)
Awards:
1992 Telemecanique Nature Conservation Research Award, Department of Environment Affairs.
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