Adult learners, access and higher education: learning as meaning-making and negotiation in context
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Date
1997
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
This study focuses on the learning experiences of adult learners entering higher education for the first time. Based in the Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies at the University of Cape Town, it analyses the experiences of successful adult learners on the first
year (1995) of a formal Certificate Programme in Adult Education, Training and Development. The study concludes that the ways in which contexts and learning relate is complex. We need to understand that it is at the intersection of the individual and the social that meaning is
made and negotiated in learning. This understanding, it is argued, is crucial to better understand the relationship between access, learning and success - within but also across contexts. The implications of this are raised tentatively by looking at alternative approaches to curriculum development and teaching-learning processes.
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Magister Philosophiae - MPhil
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Adult Education, Training and Development. (AETD), Epistemological, Sociolinguistic, Pedagogy, Ethnographic, Methodological, Community Adult Education Programme (CAEP)