Adult learning within lifelong learning: a different lens, a different light - Shirley Walters

Adult learning is located within a lifelong learning framework both as a lens for looking back and for projecting forward. The competing views of adult and lifelong learning are discussed in a preliminary overview of what has been achieved within adult learning in the last 10 years in South Africa is given. Lifelong learning and the learning region are suggested as frameworks for providing a çonnected'approach to human development and a possibility for finding 'troubled spaced of possibilities' (Edwards and Usher, 2005) to create new solutions to old problems.
From: Journal of Education, Vol. 39 (2006), pp. 7-26