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    Access and barriers to post-school education and success for disadvantaged black adults in South Africa: Rethinking equity and social justice
    (University of the Western Cape, 2022) Groener, Zelda
    Widespread national higher education student protests against proposed fee increases and demands for free higher education in South Africa that arose towards the end of 2015 drew international attention to disadvantaged students’ socio-economic conditions and the barriers that deter access to higher education. Adults’ experiences of socio-economic barriers to accessing post-school education are similar. Drawing on theoretical frameworks and secondary data, I conceptualise a distributive justice perspective on access for disadvantaged black adults premised on the relationships between interrelated equality rights and socio-economic rights, principles of social and economic justice, and redistributive policies.
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    Adult education and learning access: Hope in times of crisis in South Africa
    (University of the Western Cape, 2022) Groener, Zelda; Land, Sandra
    The call for chapters for this book was inspired by the shock of COVID-19 impacting on the adult and community education sector in our country. However, the proposals for chapter after chapter that landed in our inboxes underscored the reality that people active in this field are constantly buffeted in the waves of a whole range of crises, and that they lack protections taken for granted by many practitioners in other sectors. Consequently, this book offers a collection of chapters describing a wide range of crises that affect both learners and educators in adult and community education. Written by people working in this sphere, it makes available practitioners’ firsthand experiences of the impact of some of the more sudden and acute crises, as well as their experiences of dealing with more enduring and enervating problems.
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    Socio-economic crisis, social security, distributive justice, and vulnerable adults’ access to post-school education and training in South Africa
    (University of the Western Cape, 2022) Groener, Zelda
    Emerging international theoretical perspectives illuminate new understandings about adults’ access to post-school education and training (PSET) in contexts of crisis. As the crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds in South Africa, it draws attention to the socio-economic hardships confronting vulnerable black adults. Anticipated deepening poverty and unemployment will intensify as material barriers to PSET. How does the COVID-19 crisis invite us to rethink distributive justice in terms of social security in a context of crisis? How do the COVID-19 crisis, the socio-economic crisis and the government’s emergency social security measures inform our thinking about vulnerable adults’ future prospects for a sustainable life and, as potential adult learners, access to PSET? Conceptualising access to PSET in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, the pre-Covid-19 impending socio-economic crisis, and the government’s realisation of socioeconomic rights to new forms of social security generates new theoretical insights about the possibilities that an ‘above and beyond the minimum threshold’ of social insurance for vulnerable adults could improve access to PSET.