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Working the ‘in-between-spaces’ for transformation within the academy
(South African Journal of Education, 2018)
This paper considers the importance of ‘in-between spaces’ within the academy for challenging dominant institutional culture and hegemonic power relations towards a ‘de-colonised’ university. It questions ‘mainstreaming’ ...
University of the Western Cape Lifelong Learning by 2001 'Giving content to commitment'
(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 ...
Lifelong learning and connected-up development: insights from South Africa
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
New challenges and opportunities for lifelong learning in South Africa
(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 ...
Lifelong Learning at UWC: a study of the part-time accredited programmes
(University of the Western Cape, 1998)
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 ...
A realist assessment of the implementation of blended learning in a higher education context: the case of the Library and Information Science Department at the University of the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Opportunities for further studies by working adults came under threat as the University of the Western Cape stopped the offering of after-hours classes in most of its Faculties. Unqualified and under-qualified librarians ...
Inaugural Nyerere Lecture on Lifelong Learning by the Minister of Education, Naledi Pandor, MP, at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, Thursday, 9 September 2004
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)
First Annual Julius Nyerere Memorial Lecture presented by Naledi Pandor in 2004