Prof. Shirley Walters
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| Position: | Emerita Professor |
| Department: | Division For Lifelong Learning (DLL) |
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| My publications in this repository | |
| More about me: | here, and here |
| Tel: | +27 (0)21 959 3339/3625 |
| Fax: | +27 (0)21 959 1289 |
| Email: | swalters@uwc.ac.za |
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Re-imagining a picture: Higher education in lifelong learning
(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 ... -
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 ... -
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% ... -
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 ... -
Continuing professional education at the University of the Western Cape - survey results
(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 ... -
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 ...
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