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The Cape Town statement on characteristic elements of a lifelong learning higher education institution
(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 ...
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 ...
Social movements, class, and adult education
(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 ...
Discussion document: understanding the dynamics of part-time studies at UWC
(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% ...
Planning the imaginary: assessing the marketing of lifelong learning and its impact on institutional change. Paper presented at the 15th International Conference on Assessing Quality in Higher Education 14-16 July 2003, University of the Western Cape
(2003)
In August 1999 UWC launched its first marketing campaign “It is Never too Late to learn” which mainly targeted Adult Mature learners with an interest for part-time studies. In those days many people perceived Lifelong ...
ABET and development in the Northern Cape province: Assessing impacts of CACE courses, 1996-1999
(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 ...
The time is burning: The right of adults to basic education in South Africa
(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. ...
Putting ourselves into practice: Popular education at/and universities
(Journal of Education, 2005)
This paper looks at different ways in which popular education has been played out in South African university adult education (UAE) since the 1980s. It traces the changing relationships between UAE and sections of civil ...
Struggle and compromise: A history of South African adult education from 1960 to 2001
(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 ...
Popular pedagogy and the changing political landscape: A case study of a women’s housing movement in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2009)
This paper sets out to explore the relationship between popular education and the changing South African political landscape through case study research of the Victoria Mxenge Housing Development Association. The research ...