Browsing by Subject "Adult learning"
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Adult learning within lifelong learning: a different lens a different light
(Wayne Hugo, 2006)Adult learning is located within a lifelong learning framework both as a lens for looking back and for projecting forward. The competing views of adult and lifelong learning are discussed and a preliminary overview of what ... -
Equity, access and success: adult learners in public higher education
(Council on Higher Education, 2007)Unlike research into access and success for school-leavers entering higher education (HE) in South Africa, very little research has been conducted into adult learners in HE. Apart from generalized, albeit extensive, ... -
Gender-based violence in adult education: The experiences of rural learners and adult educators
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)Gender constitutes an integral part of both individual and collective uniqueness, and it is distressing that gender-based violence (GBV) remains persistent in education. Gendered violence is a scourge globally, more ... -
Making sense of the transitional maelstrom of part-time students and their conceptions of learning as mediated by conceptional domains of work, family and self. A case study of undergraduate, part-time political studies students at a university in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)The traditional trajectory of young students in higher education in South Africa is currently under sharp scrutiny and the general provision is considered to be inadequate in terms of quality, diversity and quantity. There ... -
Skills development and structural change: possibilities for and limitations of redressing structural racial inequalities in South Africa
(Springer, 2013)Improving structural racial equality for historically-disadvantaged Black South Africans, including low-skilled and unemployed adults and youths, is a pertinent challenge for the South African government during the ongoing ...