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Learning for Living: Towards a New Vision for Post-School Learning in South Africa

Ivor Baatjes, editor
Learning for Living: Towards a New Vision for Post-School Learning in South Africa
ISBN: 978-0-7969-2524-4
$35.00
2018/292 pages
Distributed for HSRC Press

DESCRIPTION

In the context of South Africa's deepening inequalities, widespread poverty, and increasing unemployment rates, the need for a new approach to adult education is becoming urgent. Learning for Living issues a call to action to meet that need.

Drawing on the lived experiences of people throughout the country, the book challenges policymakers, researchers, educators, and civil society organizations to think critically about the relationship between continuing education and the world of work, and about how to transform the post-school system to better serve the needs and interests of both rural and urban communities.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ivor Baatjes is director of the Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training at Nelson Mandela University.

CONTENTS

  • EXPERIENCE: LIVING AND LEARNING.
  • Being There.
  • Making a Life.
  • Making Life Harder, Making It Easier.
  • Experiences of Learning.
  • Making Learning Easier, Making It Harder.
  • REFLECTION AND INPUT: THE IMPLICATIONS.
  • Doing: In, Against, and Beyond.
  • Learning from and for Our Lives.
  • ACTION: A NEW VISION FOR POST-SCHOOL LEARNING IN SOUTH AFRICA.
  • What Learning Do People Want?
  • Learning to Make a Life.