Secured, not connected: South Africa's Adult Education system

Autor:	Sandra Land, John Aitchison
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Community education Adult education Adult basic education Constitution Political science media_common.quotation_subject Public administration Community college Adult Learning Education media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Education.
ISSN:	2520-9868 0259-479X
Popis:	South Africa has a history of attempts to provide school equivalent education to black adults through night schools. Suppressed in the 1950s and 1960s, they resurfaced after the 1976 Soweto revolt, and in 1996 the Constitution secured adult basic education as a right. Night schools were renamed ‘Public Adult Learning Centres (PALCs)’, and seemed poised to become a powerful delivery mechanism, but continued as inadequate night schools. In 2015 the PALC system was ostensibly transformed into a community college one, but this transformation was based on the weak foundation of inadequate PALCs. A new 2019 plan for the Community Education and Training College System includes long needed major overhauls that must be effected if adults’ right to effective and relevant education is to be finally realised. This paper offers a history of night schools and of policy shifts, and looks at the major shifts promised in the new plan.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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