Browsing by Author "Walters, Shirley"
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ABET and development in the Northern Cape province: Assessing impacts of CACE courses, 1996-1999
Kerfoot, Caroline; Geidt, Jonathan; Alexander, Lucy; Dayile, Nomvuyo; Groener, Zelda; Hendricks, Natheem; Walters, Shirley (Centre for Continuing and Adult Education (CACE), University of the Western Cape, 2001)This study presents the results of an investigation into the impact of CACE courses for adult educators, trainers and development practitioners. The report describes how the courses affected the training practices and ... -
Adult learning within lifelong learning: a different lens a different light
Walters, Shirley (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 ... -
Building a learning region: Whose framework of lifelong learning matters?
Walters, Shirley (Springer, 1992)This chapter is part of a book that aims to provide an accessible, practical and scholarly source of information about the international concern for the philosophy, theory, categories, and concepts of lifelong learning. ... -
Building common knowledge: negotiating new pedagogies in Higher Education in South Africa
Walters, Shirley; Daniels, Freda; Weitz, Vernon (University of the Western Cape, 2015)Discussions in this chapter are located within an action research-based study which aims at supporting the integration of enhanced pedagogies in one university in South Africa. The study recognises that even full-time ... -
The Cape Town statement on characteristic elements of a lifelong learning higher education institution
Walters, Shirley; Werner, Mauch (University of Western Cape, UNESCO, Lifelong learning, 2001)This statement grew out of a need recognised by adult and higher educators, scholars and specialists in the area of adult and lifelong learning to build on previous work focusing on transforming institutions of higher ... -
Continuing professional education at the University of the Western Cape - survey results
Koetsier, Jos; Walters, Shirley (University of the Western Cape, 1997)UWC has since 1998 a new Mission Statement which commits the university to Lifelong Learning. Since 1996 there has been a process to give content to this commitment. The process included surveys of distance education and ... -
Critical human rights, citizenship, and democracy education: Entanglements and regenerations
Walters, Shirley (Springer, 2020)My reading of this text does not come from within the field of citizenship (CE), democracy (DE) or human rights education (HRE). I am an outsider as far as the debates between CE, HRE and DE go. My interest in the problems ... -
Discussion document: understanding the dynamics of part-time studies at UWC
Watters, Kathy; Koetsier, Jos; Walters, Shirley (University of the Western Cape, 2003)This study into understanding the dynamics of part-time studies at UWC is part of on-going institutional research that is required to improve the conditions of and services to part-time students at UWC. Approximately 23% ... -
Eleventh annual Julius Nyerere memorial lecture in 2014
Popular Education South Africa; Walters, Shirley (University of the Western Cape, 2015)The event included a live performance by Jana Natya Manch (The People’s Theatre Group), also known as Janam (Birth). Janam has created original plays for the past 40 years; they have performed more than 8000 times in over ... -
Equity, access and success: adult learners in public higher education
Buchler, Michelle; Castle, Jane; Osman, Ruksana; Walters, Shirley (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, ... -
Flexible learning and teaching: Looking beyond the binary of full-time/part-time provision in South African higher education
Walters, Shirley; Jones, Barbara (University of the Western Cape, 2015)This paper engages with literature on flexible learning and teaching in order to explore whether it may be possible, within the South African context, to have flexible learning and teaching provide a third way which goes ... -
Keeping the doors of learning open for adult student-workers within higher education
Walters, Shirley; Witbooi, Sally; Abrahams, Mark (University of the Western Cape, 2015)The Freedom Charter of the African National Congress (ANC), the triumphant South African liberation movement, proclaims that ‘the doors of learning shall be open’ for all. Twenty years since coming to power, the doors of ... -
Learning/work: Turning work and lifelong learning inside out
Walters, Shirley (Springer, 2011)CONFINTEA VI took place against the background of an uneven and contradictory social and economic impact of globalisation. This impact registered globally and locally, in both the political North and South, drawing new ... -
Lifelong learning and connected-up development: insights from South Africa
Walters, Shirley (UNESCO, 2011)Lifelong learning through the four major stages of people’s development (Schuller and Watson 2009) embodies the need for integrated, connected-up approaches to development. I will reference briefly three examples in ... -
Lifelong learning and professional development in 'Residential Universities': Implementing the 'White Paper on post-school education and training'
Walters, Shirley (University of the Western Cape, 2015)This is a compilation of key documents from the four year action research project between the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) which seeks to implement ... -
Lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning: utilizing the lens of HIV/AIDS
Walters, ShirleyIn this presentation, I use a discussion on pedagogies of HIV/AIDS as a lens to sharpen and clarify ways of thinking about adult and lifelong learning, particularly in and for the majority world. HIV/AIDS highlight some ... -
Navigating our way: a compass for popular educators
Von Kotze, Astrid; Walters, Shirley; Luckett, Thembi (Taylor and Francis, 2016)This article addresses the tensions and contradictions of applying a popular education approach in the current context of South Africa. It draws upon data from an 18-month research project exploring the traditions of popular ... -
Navigating the National Qualifications Framework: the role of career guidance
Walters, Shirley; Watts, A. G.; Fledeman, P. (UNISA, 2009)The South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) recently commissioned a review of the career development field in South Africa. The review was designed to clarify what SAQA’s role might be in assisting learners throughout ... -
New challenges and opportunities for lifelong learning in South Africa
Walters, Shirley (Taylor and Francis Ltd, United Kingdom, 1999-06-28)The imperatives for lifelong learning in South Africa are driven by its reinsertion into the global economy and by the social and political necessities of equity and redress after the years of colonialism, segregation and ... -
Non-governmental organisations and the South African state: present and future relations.
Walters, Shirley (Community Development Journal, 1993)The article explores the relationship between the state and NGOs in order to address the question: Is there a place for non-governmental, community based organisations in a democratic South African state? Section One ...