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Shirley Walters
Researcher at University of the Western Cape
Publications - 48
Citations - 484
Shirley Walters is an academic researcher from University of the Western Cape. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lifelong learning & Adult education. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 46 publications receiving 448 citations.
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Learning/work: Turning work and lifelong learning inside out
Shirley Walters,Linda Cooper +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue for the reinsertion of "politics and power" into both the theory and practice of "lifelong learning" and "work" to promote greater inclusion and security for those whose livelihoods are most severely affected by globalisation.
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Social movements, class, and adult education
TL;DR: This article used social movements in South Africa, often organized around class-related issues, to illustrate how class, intertwined with other social categories, shapes organizational and educational practices, and provided rich material to illustrate the importance of class in social movements.
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Competency based training and national qualifications frameworks: insights from South Africa
Ben Parker,Shirley Walters +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue for a view of NQFs as a work-in-progress and as contestable artefacts of modern society, which can provide an opportunity to address, in a modest manner, aspects of lifelong learning that contribute to economic development, social justice and personal empowerment.
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Lifelong learning, higher education and active citizenship: from rhetoric to action
Shirley Walters,Kathy Watters +1 more
TL;DR: The Cape Town Statement on Characteristic Elements of a Lifelong learning Higher Education Institution as discussed by the authors describes the journey of a network of adult educators and academics from the North, South, East and West through contested terrain from Hamburg, to Paris, Mumbai and Cape Town in 2000.
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Confronting globalisation: Learning from intercontinental collaboration
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe and analyze challenges encountered in a recent case of global collaboration between four universities on different continents in developing a web-based master's program, where the key issue was how to develop programs in a way that is fair for the different countries involved.