New challenges and opportunities for lifelong learning in South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorWalters, Shirley
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-25T08:56:51Z
dc.date.available2015-11-25T08:56:51Z
dc.date.issued1999-06-28
dc.description.abstractThe imperatives for lifelong learning in South Africa are driven by its reinsertion into the global economy and by the social and political necessities of equity and redress after the years of colonialism, segregation and apartheid. It is therefore not surprising to find the discourse of lifelong learning infused into new policy documents. Utilizing Belanger's framework, which argues that lifelong learning is not a norm to prescribe but an empirical reality to analyze and reconstruct, the contexts for lifelong learning in South Africa are surveyed by focusing in on the state of initial education, adult education, and the learning environments. The framework, which acknowledges the daily lived realities of women and men, is a helpful way of retaining an holistic and integrated vision of lifelong learning and its humanistic, democratic goals. For lifelong learning in South Africa to deepen for more than a small group of well-educated, mainly urban, formally employed people, the author concludes that initial education, adult education and the learning environments of all the people will have to be improved. If this does not happen, then at least two polarized 'lifelong educations' will result.en_US
dc.description.accreditationWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.identifier.citationWalters, S. (1999).“New challenges and opportunities for lifelong learning in South Africa. COMPARATIVE EDUCATION, Volume 35 ( 2): 217-224en_US
dc.identifier.issn0010-4086
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/1999
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Ltd, United Kingdomen_US
dc.rightsPublished article is available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03050069927982 for purchase from the publisher
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org//10.1080/03050069927982
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectLifelong learningen_US
dc.subjectAdult educationen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.titleNew challenges and opportunities for lifelong learning in South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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