Division for Lifelong Learning (DLL): Recent submissions
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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, ... -
Lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning: utilizing the lens of HIV/AIDS
In 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 ... -
Building a learning region: Whose framework of lifelong learning matters?
(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. ... -
Reflecting on the global report on adult learning and education in the “post-truth society”
(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 ... -
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’ ... -
Non-governmental organisations and the South African state: present and future relations.
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Navigating our way: a compass for popular educators
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Liberation pedagogy in the South African Context
(Skotaville Publishers, 1990)We have arrived at a time to reflect on what has been done in the field of education for liberation, alternative education or People’s Education during the last few years. We have to analyse and theorise our experience in ... -
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 ... -
Recognition of prior learning as “radical pedagogy”: a case study of the workers' college in South Africa.
(All Rights Reserved © Faculty of Education, McGill University, 2013)This article argues that the model of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) in use at the Workers’ College in South Africa may be seen as a form of “radical pedagogy.” Drawing on documentary sources, focus group interviews ... -
Worker education in South Africa: Lessons and contradictions
(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 ... -
A realist assessment of the implementation of blended learning in a South African higher education context
(South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education (SAARDHE), 2016)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 ... -
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 ... -
Realising a lifelong learning higher education institution
(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 ... -
Learning/work: Turning work and lifelong learning inside out
(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 ... -
Navigating the National Qualifications Framework: the role of career guidance
(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 ...
