Browsing by Author "Volbrecht, Terry"

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    Re-imagining a picture: Higher education in lifelong learning
    (IIZ/DVV, Hamburg, Germany, 2000) Walters, Shirley; Volbrecht, Terry
    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 which highlights the needs of diverse individual learners and the multifaceted professional development of staff. Externally we notice an emphasis on helping to ensure access by a range of constituencies to socially and economically relevant education, training and research opportunities. This framework highlights, in new ways, what separate bodies of literature have called “university teaching”, “academic development”, “higher education studies”, “adult education”, “continuing education”, “human resource development”, and “organizational development”.
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    RPL as cognitive praxis in linking higher education, the African Renaissance and lifelong learning
    (Taylor & Francis, 2003) Hendricks, Natheem; Volbrecht, Terry
    This article argues that one can use the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) to conceptualise the project of bridging the articulation gap between further and higher education in South Africa by framing the cognitive praxis of this project simultaneously within Africa Renaissance and within a progressive global project of lifelong learning. The article then suggests that RPL requires recognising both the complementarity and the contestation or disjunction between different modes of learning and knowledge production. In a postmodern period of intensified globalisation that inevitably shapes what is possible in lifelong learning and the Africa Renaissance, it may be useful to frame "bridging the gap" with a broader notion of "mediating difference". The article uses the experiences of introducing RPL at the University of the Western Cape to illustrate the general argument.