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    • Re-imagining a picture: Higher education in lifelong learning 

      Walters, Shirley; Volbrecht, Terry (IIZ/DVV, Hamburg, Germany, 2000)
      In using “lifelong learning” as the frame to observe higher education institutions, our gaze focuses both internally and externally. Internally we see a concern to ensure high quality, and flexible teaching and learning ...
    • Realising a lifelong learning higher education institution 

      Walters, Shirley (Routledge, 2005)
      Activists and scholars committed to lifelong learning for social justice and democratic citizenship have devised a framework for transforming higher education in the new South Africa. The author draws on this work, developed ...
    • Reflecting on the global report on adult learning and education in the “post-truth society” 

      Walters, Shirley; Watters, Kathy (Sage, 2017)
      This article contextualizes and reviews the third global report on adult learning and education (ALE) released by UNESCO in 2016. The authors suggest that it is a visionary document, which is articulated through the ...
    • Social movements, class, and adult education 

      Walters, Shirley (Wiley, 2005)
      Social movements are movements of people in civil society who cohere around issues and identities that they themselves define as significant (Martin, 1999). The following quotation describes a group of poor women in South ...
    • Struggle and compromise: A history of South African adult education from 1960 to 2001 

      Aitchinson, John (Journal of Education, 2003)
      This article provides an overview of the history of adult education in South Africa from 1960 (when the apartheid regime crushed the main black political movements) to the end of 2001 when, after a period of painful struggle ...
    • Survey Knowledge Commons: Main Library University of the Western Cape 

      Koetsier, Jos (University of the Western Cape, 2010)
      Knowledge Commons is the most frequently visited level of the Main Library. A project initiated by the SRC to extend opening hours has taken off well. The survey was initiated by the Student Representative Council of the ...
    • The time is burning: The right of adults to basic education in South Africa 

      Rule, Peter (Journal of Education, 2006)
      The government has neglected the constitutional right of adults to basic education over the last decade. This paper examines the bases for holding the government to account in the constitutional court for its performance. ...
    • University of the Western Cape Lifelong Learning by 2001 'Giving content to commitment' 

      Walters, Shirley (University of the Western Cape, 1997)
      The report draws on findings from an investigation into the feasibility of a university-wide Programme of Lifelong Learning at UWC. The survey was completed by three Task Groups of the Rector to investigate Distance ...
    • Worker education in South Africa: Lessons and contradictions 

      Vally, Salim; Bofelo, Mphutlane; Treat, John (All Rights Reserved © Faculty of Education, McGill University, 2013, 2013)
      Worker education played a crucial role in the development of the trade union movement in South Africa and in the broader struggle for social transformation. This article reviews key moments and dynamics in the trajectory ...