The true meaning of a teacher-researcher in a 'VUCA' world

  By Mathebula Heaven  The need and relevance of teacher-researcher within the current social, economic and political context of high youth unemployment.  This picture can be accessed from this   link The world we are living in has changed drastically, this is due to advances in technology, social, economic and political storm. These rapid changes can be better understood with the ‘VUCA’ concept. As such, South Africa fits into this idea like a glove. The third letter of VUCA, for instance, stands for complexity and managing a nation with a 32.7% unemployment rate and a 61% rate for young unemployment (Statistics, 2022).  Watch this  Video to learn more about VUCA and its impact on future jobs. Dlamini (2020) ,  define youth unemployment as a collection of young people from a variety of backgrounds who are eager and able to work but are unable to do so or find the kind of work for which they are qualified . Basically, youth unemployment occurs when e