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Year	The 2000s
2000	Postcards to the new prisoners in the global classroom Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 200010 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2000. Postcards to the new prisoners in the global classroom. Past, prospects and policies for South African adult education in the new millennium. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal, School of Education, Training and Development Description: An inaugural lecture delivered at the University of Natal that examines global and national future prospects for adult education and looks at Illich, Freire and Mager as influences on South African adult education Keywords: adult education, literacy, lifelong learning, outcomes, standards, history, ideology
	ABET in 2001: South Africa’s leading practitioners speak out Report on the conference, ABET on Trial, Midrand, November 2000 Author: Project Literacy Date: 20001128-29 Reference: Project Literacy. 2001. ABET in 2001: South Africa’s leading practitioners speak out. Report on the conference, ABET on Trial, Midrand, November 2000. Pretoria: Project Literacy Description: Useful summary of the intentions and papers delivered at this major evaluative conference on the progress of ABET since 1994. Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, adult education, research, evaluation, history, ideology, conferences
	A concise map of the present situation in ABET Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20001128 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2000. A concise map of the present situation in ABET. Paper presented at the Project Literacy/European Union Special Project National Conference “ABET on trial” at Midrand, 28-29 November 2000 Description: Combines both the adversarial and the inquisitional approaches to a trial looking in particular at the following: the admissions that can be taken (or should be taken) as accepted by both accusers and defenders of the current ABET situation; the ABET system - an analysis of the development its policy and implementation, its achievements and failures; the ABET provision being a descriptive analysis and evaluation thereof; and lastly a look at Alternative visions and the capacity for self-renewal. Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, adult education, research, evaluation, history, ideology, curriculum, materials, conferences
	Issues and questions that might be dealt with in the group discussion Author: Unknown Date: 200011 Reference: Unknown. 200011. Issues and questions that might be dealt with in the group discussion. Description: Some kind of guide to group discussion on adult basic education Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, research
	Reading and writing the new South Africa: Literacy and adult basic education and training in South Africa Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 200011 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2000. Reading and writing the new South Africa: Literacy and adult basic education and training in South Africa. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal Description: A general update of the whole literacy and adult basic education situation in South Africa. Published in 2001 in Stilwell, C., Leach, A. and Burton, S. (Eds). 2001. Knowledge, information and development: an African perspective. Pietermaritzburg: School of Human and Social Studies, University of Natal, pp. 134-152 Keywords: adult basic education, reading, literacy, history, policy, plan, research
	Adult Basic Education and Training Act. 2000 Author: Department of Education Date: 20001213 Reference: Department of Education. 2000. Adult Basic Education and Training Act. 2000. Government Gazette, Volume 426, Number 21881 Description: Key legislative instrument for adult basic education. A Green paper process, started in 1998, was aborted and its final output is this Act which is very narrow in scope. It is largely concerned with the regulation of public and private adult learning centres and the setting up of governing bodies for them. Its conception of ABET is entirely formal. The Act was never capable of serious implementation and many of the regulations needed to implement the Act in provinces were never promulgated. The Act was repealed in early 2013. Keywords: adult basic education, governance, finance, policy, legislation
	Adult Literacy, Basic Education and Development Foundation: 2000
	Adult Literacy, Basic Education and Development Foundation documents: 2000 Author: Adult Literacy, Basic Education and Development Foundation (unless otherwise specified) Date: 2000 Reference: Adult Literacy, Basic Education and Development Foundation. 2000. Braamfontein:Adult Literacy, Basic Education and Development Foundation Description: The Adult Literacy, Basic Education, and Development Foundation of South Africa was set up in 2000 in an attempt to provide a dedicated conduit for donor funding for adult literacy and basic education work conducted by NGOs and other non-state institutions. The move was prompted by the drying up of donor funding in the 1990s as foreign donors redirected monies to the state and private sector conduits (such as the Joint Education Trust) stopped funding this field. The plan to establish the Foundation was initiated by Wolfgang Leumer of the German Adult Education Association, which had on office in Cape Town. The Foundation gained the support of NGOs, government and donors and planned to work in partnership with foreign and local donors, the South African government, development foundations and local business. It never gained any substantial donor funding and eventually closed down. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, finance 19991123 ALBED Task Team Minutes 23 November 1999 2000 ALBED Foundation nomination information 200001 ALBEd Funding proposal Draft 20000125-26 ALBED Task Team Minutes of 25 and 26 January 2000 20000208 ALBED Funding proposal Draft 20000405 ALBED Foundation presentation 20000405 ALBED Task Team Minutes 5 April 2000 20000407 ALBED Board of Trustees criteria 20000614 Letter inviting members of Board of Trustees to meeting on 27 June 20000627 ALBED Board of Trustees Minutes 27 June 2000 20000629 ALBED Foundation Deed of Trust - Draft 20001005 ALBED Board of Trustees Minutes 5 October 2000 20001109 ALBED Foundation Deed of Trust (20010116) 20001109 ALBED Board of Trustees contact list
	South African National Literacy Initiative: 2000
	South African National Literacy Initiative documents: 2000 Author: South African National Literacy Initiative (unless otherwise specified) Date: 2000 Reference: South African National Literacy Initiative. 2000. Pretoria:South African National Literacy Initiative, Department of Education Description: In 1999 a new Minister of Education, Kader Asmal, called for the start of a national literacy campaign to “break the back of illiteracy” among adults and youth in five years. A previous Director of SACHED and now a Deputy Director General in the Department of Education, John Samuel, was appointed by the Minister of Education to set up the new National Literacy Agency and a working group managed by the South African Institute of Distance Education (SAIDE) and funded by the United Kingdoms's Department For International Development (DFID)was engaging in the first steps of this process. Of interest is that the Minister seemed determined that the Agency should not be part of the national Department of Education and its Adult Education and Training Directorate (which had recently published an Adult Basic Education and Training Bill which seemed to hark back to the worst of Bantu Education legislation of the 1950s). An innovative plan was developed (its one failing was that it espoused the (now thoroughly discredited but at the time fashionable) North American “whole language” method for teaching literacy. However, this plan was soon thrown away by the Department of Education bureaucrats whon adopted a new plan that thoroughly embedded the campaign within the national and provincial directorates of Adult Education, and a returned exile with no literacy expertise was placed in charge of the South African National Literacy Initiative Board. Over the next few years various claims were made by the Department of Education of almost magical numbers of enrolments, unfortunate largely illusory except for over 200 000 reached by the University of South Africa ABET Institute directed by Veronica MacKay which formed a partnership with SANLI in 2002 and 2003. Thereafter SANLI faded away after UNISA’s donor funding from DFID of the United Kingdom government dried up. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, finance, policy, plan, campaign, ideology There are three sets of documents: General, the South African Institute of Distance Education planning of a campaign, and SANLI Board documents: General 20000511 Mthembu to NLA planning workshop participants 200007 SANLI Implementation Plan (ex SAIDE] 200007 SANLI Current Project Status 20000706 Email from Butcher re tender 20000721 Advert for SANLI Executive director 20000726 SANLI to KZN Consortium re tender presentations 20000801 SANLI Presentation on SANLI 20000801 SANLI Towards a framework for implementing the National Literacy Campaign 200008 SANLI Comments on the Action Plans (Aitchison) 20000918 SANLI Letter re mobilisation workshop 20001127 SANLI KZN stakeholder meeting agenda 20001127 SANLI KZN stakeholders meeting agenda annotated 20001130 Letter from Sybil Chabane to Aitchison and Tembaletu re KZN project document 20001204 SANLI Letter from Payne (DFID SA] to Malele SAIDE managed planning 20000505 SAIDE June workshop invitation 20000529 SAIDE email re workshop 20000531 SAIDE email re workshop 20000609 A national literacy campaign outline 20000611 Some issues each session should address 20000616 SANLI Progress report 20000714 Alias (SAIDE) to participants re planning of mobilisation workshop 20000717 SA Literacy Campaign 2001-Implementation Plan v 3 20000718 Invitation for proposals for Teaching and Learning Pack 20000718 SA Literacy Campaign 2001-Implementation Plan v3 edited 20000719 SANLI Implementation Plan (ex SAIDE) 20000720 Research proposal for SAIDE Revised 20000804 Discussion guide - Current ABET learners Draft l 20000804 Discussion guide - Current educators 20000804 Discussion guide - Current educators Draft 2 20000804 Discussion guide - Lapsed ABET learners Draft l 20000804 Discussion guide - Managers of Teaching and Learning Sites Draft l 20000804 Discussion guide - Potential educators Draft 2 20000804 Discussion guide - Potential educators Draft 2 (2) 20000804 Discussion guide - Potential learners Draft 2 (2b) 20001020 SANLI Status report on SAIDE preparatory work SANLI Board 20000612 Letter Asmal to Aitchison re Board 20000801 SANLI Board meeting Agenda and Constitution 20000801 SANLI Board Meeting Notes by Aitchison 20000801 SANLI Interim Executive Director's report to Board 20000808 SANLI Letter re Sub-committees 20001100 Letter from Aitchison to Asmal [never sent] 20001102 SANLI Memo and agenda and annexures for Board meeting of10 November 2000 20001102 SANLI Minutes of Board meeting of 10 November 2000 20001110 SANLI Board Meeting Notes by Aitchison 20001110 SANLI Constitution 20001110 SANLI Progress report to Board Meeting 20001204 SANLI Majeza to Executive Committee re setting up Section 21 company
	Masifunde Sonke: 2000
	Masifunde Sonke documents: 2000 Author: Masifunde Sonke (unless otherwise specified) Date: 2000 Reference: Masifunde Sonke. 2000. Pretoria: Masifunde Sonke, Depaertment of Education Description: In December 2000, the Minister of Education, Kader Asmal, launched Masifunde Sonke, a year-long reading advocacy campaign to to promote and build a culture of reading and writing among all South Africans. In 2001 its objectives were described as: - To achieve a total national consciousness of the value and benefits of reading. - To engage all in the 'reading chain' - writers, illustrators, publishers, printers, booksellers, teachers and librarians - in support of the mission of the campaign. - To engage the corporate sector, civil society, churches, and community based organisations to support, and participate actively in, the campaign. - To mobilise investment into a reading promotion initiative of such value to all stakeholders that it will grow and continue to serve far beyond 2001. Unfortunately, there was a lack of progress or continuity over various restarts over several years. Keywords: literacy, reading, adult education, adult basic education 20001208 Launch of Masifunde Sonke - Asmal speech 20001208 Launch of Masifunde Sonke - materials 20001203 Masifunde Sonke Project Plan (to SANLI)
2001	ABET in 2001: South Africa’s leading practitioners speak out Report on the conference, ABET on Trial, Midrand, November 2000 Author: Project Literacy Date: 2001 Reference: Project Literacy. 2001. ABET in 2001: South Africa’s leading practitioners speak out. Report on the conference, ABET on Trial, Midrand, November 2000. Pretoria: Project Literacy Description: Useful summary of the intentions and papers delivered at this major evaluative conference on the progress of ABET since 1994. Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, adult education, research, evaluation, history, ideology, conferences
	National AET Plan - 2001 Author: Department of Education Date: 2001 Reference: Department of Education. 2001. National AET Plan - 2001. Pretoria: Department of Education Description: Suggests changes to the Department's Four-year Plan to deal with priority matters: AET GETC rules of combination and unit standards; infrastructure for curriculum development, theoretical understanding of the adult education curriculum, and dealing with gaps between AET levels; provincial curriculum management capacity building, family literacy, evaluation of existing materials/learning programmes, appropriate assessment strategies for adults; and defining critical success factors - impact Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, policy, plan, governence, curriculum, standards, NQF, materials, evaluation
	Analysis of the Adult Basic Education and Training Act No. 52 of 2000 Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20010210 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2001. Analysis of the Adult Basic Education and Training Act No. 52 of 2000. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal Description: Straightforward explanation of ther various clauses, offers some critical comments that the Act seems to have been drafted essentially from a formal school system and urban perspective, with assumptions about the availability of state centres and showing no understanding of rural contexts where there may be no or very few facilities. Notes the bizarre statement that "The best way to break the back of illiteracy amongst adults is to regulate it by legislation." Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, governanece, legislation, finance
	Comments on the Discussion document on the General Education and Training Certificate Author: University of Natal, School of Education, Training and Development Date: 20010223 Reference: University of Natal, School of Education, Training and Development. 2012. Comments on the Discussion document on the General Education and Training Certificate. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal, School of Education, Training and Development Description: Critical comments on the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg's Schoolo of Education, Training and Development (incorporating the Centre for Adult Education), on the Department of Education's Discussion document on the General Education and Training Certificate that particularly note that the qualification ideas on the "T" [Training] in ABET are misconceived for foundational education. Keywords: policy, adult basic education, qualifications, standards, curriculum
	ABET on Trial Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 200103 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2001. ABET on Trial, Quarterly Review of Education and Training in South Africa. Vol. 8. No. 1., 15 March 2001, pp. 15-25 Description: The impact of Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) policy and provision since 1994 came into sharp focus in November 2000 at a conference is titled “ABET on trial”. The conference, sponsored by the European Union, was an important evaluation of what has happened since the change of government in 1994. This review examined some of the data and findings presented to the conference, though most of its is based on Aitchison'paper presented to the Conference. In a few instances some phrases have been reinserted from the author’s original draft where the editing of the published version has obscured the intended meaning. Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, provision, research, statistics, conference
	Masifunde Sonke Research Briefs Author: Musker, P. Date: 20010910 Reference: Musker, P. 2001.Masifunde Sonke Research Briefs. Pretoria: Masifunde Sonke, Department of Education Description: Outlines the purpose of Masifunde Sonke to reach all with objectives to: To achieve a total national consciousness of the value and benefits of reading. To engage all in the 'reading chain' - writers, illustrators, publishers, printers, booksellers, teachers and librarians - in support of the mission of the campaign. To engage the corporate sector, civil society, churches, and community based organisations to support, and participate actively in, the campaign. To mobilise investment into a reading promotion initiative of such value to all stakeholders that it will grow and continue to serve far beyond 2001. It provides eight research activity briefs: a Review of School-Based Literacy Provision; a Review of Workplace-Based Literacy Provision; a Review of Non-School-Based and Non-Workplace-Based Literacy Provision; a Review of Book Development; a Support for the Formulation of a Monitoring and Auditing Strategy; a Survey Design; an Analysis of Survey Results; and a Production of Research Proposals Keywords: literacy, research
	ABET and development in the Northern Cape province: assessing impacts of CACE courses 1996-1999 Author: Centre for Adult and Continuing Education, University of the Western Cape Date: 200110 Reference: Centre for Adult and Continuing Education, University of the Western Cape. 200110. ABET and development in the Northern Cape province: assessing impacts of CACE courses 1996-1999. Bellville: Centre for Adult and Continuing Education, University of the Western Cape Description: This research report on an Advanced Diploma (run in mixed-mode) and a Certificate course (face to face) and supported by the Northern Cape provincial government that found little impact on ABET provision but greater stident achievemnts in develoopment contexts. Extremely valuable as one of the few impact studies on adult education practitioner qualifications. Keywords: adult education, development, practitioners, distance eduation, research, universities
	Appointment of members to serve as members on the ministerial project committee of the “Masifunde sonke” project Author: Ministry of Education Date: 20011123 Reference: Ministry of Education. 2001. Appointment of members to serve as members on the ministerial project committee of the “Masifunde sonke” project. Government Gazette, Volume 1195, Number 22839, 23 November 2001 Description: List of members Keywords: literacy
	South African National Literacy Initiative: 2001
	South African National Literacy Initiative documents: 2000 Author: South African National Literacy Initiative (unless otherwise specified) Date: 2001 Reference: South African National Literacy Initiative. 2001. Pretoria:South African National Literacy Initiative, Department of Education Description: In 1999 a new Minister of Education, Kader Asmal, called for the start of a national literacy campaign to “break the back of illiteracy” among adults and youth in five years. A previous Director of SACHED and now a Deputy Director General in the Department of Education, John Samuel, was appointed by the Minister of Education to set up the new National Literacy Agency and a working group managed by the South African Institute of Distance Education (SAIDE) and funded by the United Kingdoms's Department For International Development (DFID) was engaging in the first steps of this process. Of interest is that the Minister seemed determined that the Agency should not be part of the national Department of Education and its Adult Education and Training Directorate (which had recently published an Adult Basic Education and Training Bill which seemed to hark back to the worst of Bantu Education legislation of the 1950s). An innovative plan was developed (its one failing was that it espoused the (now thoroughly discredited but at the time fashionable) North American “whole language” method for teaching literacy. However, this plan was soon thrown away by the Department of Education bureaucrats whon adopted a new plan that thoroughly embedded the campaign within the national and provincial directorates of Adult Education, and a returned exile with no literacy expertise was placed in charge of the South African National Literacy Initiative Board. Over the next few years various claims were made by the Department of Education of almost magical numbers of enrolments, unfortunate largely illusory except for over 200 000 reached by the University of South Africa ABET Institute directed by Veronica MacKay which formed a partnership with SANLI in 2002 and 2003. Thereafter SANLI faded away after UNISA’s donor funding from DFID of the United Kingdom government dried up. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, finance, policy, plan, campaign, ideology 2001 SANLI Business Plan 2001 SANLI Funding Proposal for KwaZulu-Natal Literacy lnitiative 2001 SANLI KZN Stakeholders meeting Aitchison notes 2001 SANLI New plan 20010 SANLI Comments from Aitchison on Action Plan and KwaZulu-Natal Funding Proposal 200105 SANLI SAIDE Literacy Resource Development Project 200105 SANLI SAIDE Literacy Resource Development Project (LRDP) - Reprioritisation of literacy grant 200105 SANLI SAIDELiteracy Resource Development Project Logical Framework for DFID Grant 200106 SANLI Six months progress report 20010111 SANLI Proposed Memorandum and Articles of Association 20010128 SANLI Hasuma comments on Section 21 registration 20010129 SANLI Executive meeting agenda 20010129 SANLI Executive Committee minutes 20010129 SANLI Letter from Adams & Adams re logo copyright issue (first page missing) 20010226 SANLI Aitchison Analysis of the situation within which SANLI operates 20010227 SANLI Letter to Malele (CEO) from Mthembu and Mathe 20010227 SANLI Minutes of Executive Committee 20010227 SANLI Report to Executive Management Committee 20010228 SANLI Notes of meeting 20010322 SANLI Civil Society meeting Agenda 20010322 SANLI SAIDE Civil Society Literacy Campaign Literacy Resource Development Project 20010327 SANLI Agenda for executive committee meeting 20010327 SANLI Executive meeting Aitchison notes 20010327 SANLI Report to Executive Management Committee with annexures 20010328 KZN ALBET Consortium Revised Proposal for development of Literacy Teaching and Learning Pack by KZN consortium (1) 20010328 KZN ALBET Consortium Revised Proposal for development Literacy Teaching and Learning Pack by KZN consortium (2) 20010328 SANLI Letter from Malele to Aitchison on documents 20010410-11 SANLI Programme of Strategic Planning Session and Aitchison notes 20010424 SANLI Executive committee minutes 20010514 SANLI Education Minister letter about new Ministerial Committee 20010515 SANLI Agenda for Executive Committee with Aitchison notes on meeting 20010515 SANLI Executive meeting Aitchison notes 20010604 SANLI Advisory Board Agenda, Report to, and Aitchison notes
	Adult Literacy, Basic Education and Development Foundation: 2001
	Adult Literacy, Basic Education and Development Foundation documents: 2001 Author: Adult Literacy, Basic Education and Development Foundation (unless otherwise specified) Date: 2001 Reference: Adult Literacy, Basic Education and Development Foundation. 2000. Braamfontein:Adult Literacy, Basic Education and Development Foundation Description: The Adult Literacy, Basic Education, and Development Foundation of South Africa was set up in 2000 in an attempt to provide a dedicated conduit for donor funding for adult literacy and basic education work conducted by NGOs and other non-state institutions. The move was prompted by the drying up of donor funding in the 1990s as foreign donors redirected monies to the state and private sector conduits (such as the Joint Education Trust) stopped funding this field. The plan to establish the Foundation was initiated by Wolfgang Leumer of the German Adult Education Association, which had on office in Cape Town. The Foundation gained the support of NGOs, government and donors and planned to work in partnership with foreign and local donors, the South African government, development foundations and local business. It never gained any substantial donor funding and eventually closed down. Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, finance, NGOs 200101 ALBED Grantmaking Philosophy and Principles 2nd Draft 20010119 ALBED Board of Trustees Minutes 19 January 2001 20010126 ALBED Report on ALBED Foundation meeting with the NDA 20010131 ALBED 2001 Funding proposal Draft 1 20010131 ALBED Budget 2001 20010131 ALBED database 20010131 ALBED Foundation deliverables 20010205 ALBED Database Questionnaire 20010205 ALBED Endorsement letter 200103 ALBED Foundation HR Policy 20010316 ALBED Board of Trustees Minutes 16 March 2001 20010710 ALBED Board of Trustees Agenda 10 July 2001 20010710 ALBED Board of Trustees Minutes 10 July 2001 20010822 ALBED Report on Mtg with Deputy Minister of Education 22 August 2001 20010907 ALBED Board of Trustees Minutes 7 September 2001
2002	Evaluating the role of Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET), in terms of fulfilling the need for literacy in English, in the private sector Author: Vivian, B. Date: 2002 Reference: Vivian, B. 2002. Evaluating the role of Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET), in terms of fulfilling the need for literacy in English, in the private sector. Journal for Language Teaching, Volume 36, Numbers 1 & 2, pp. 15-27 Description: Discusses adult basic education and training in the context of the NQF and examines why ABET is not flourishing in the private sector, which is ascribed to the divide between education and training, describes a case study, and provides some recommendations Keywords: adult basic education, training, NQF, standards, research, evaluation
	Practitioners in the Adult Basic Education and Training Sector. Final Research Report Author: Khulisa Management Services Date: 200202 Reference: Khulisa Management Services. 200202. Practitioners in the Adult Basic Education and Training Sector. Final Research Report. Pretoria: Department of Education and Education Labour Relations Council Description: A commisisioned report with findings (based upon interviews, focus groups and workshops) and recommendations on ABET practitioners: conditions of service, payment regulations, and job descriptions, that notes the need for national data on adult education. Keywords: adult basic education, research, practitioners, educators, trainers, ETDP, finance
	Masifunde sonke: The state of literacy in South Africa Author: Baatjes, I, Harley, A., Land, S., Aitchison, J.J.W., Thomson, C. and Sader, S. Date: 200203 Reference: Baatjes, I, Harley, A., Land, S., Aitchison, J.J.W., Thomson, C. and Sader, S. 2002. Masifunde Sonke: The state of literacy in South Africa. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal Description: Though drawing on previous national research into adult basic education conducted by the Centre for Adult Education, this report obtained much new survey data. Commissioned by the Masifunde sonke Ministerial project the project renaged on paying (no doubt the monies had fallen into the corruption cesspit) and the report was never published. The report includes information on Legislative and policy frameworks; An overview of literacy-related policies; Literacy plans, programmes and projects; Audit and monitoring reading; a Book development review, and Research tools. The document provided here is a penultimate version, the only one available, and has a few small sections missing. Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, reading, history, policy, plan, research, statistics, materials, plan, finance, evaluation
	A baseline study of ABET in the Mining and Minerals Sector: Improving provision and delivery Authors: Baatjes, I., Aitchison, J.J.W., and John, V. Date: 20020515 Reference: Baatjes, I., Aitchison, J.J.W., and John, V. 2002. A baseline study of ABET in the Mining and Minerals Sector: Improving provision and delivery. 2002. Hatfield: German Technical Co-operation and Braamfontein: Mining Qualifications Authority Description: Commissioned by German Technical Co-operation (GTZ) in partnership with the Mining Qualifications Authority (MQA), this comprehensive baseline study found that only 20 % of mining companies provided ABET programmes, though there was increasing interest and the MQA, through its Sector Skills Plan and Workplace Skills Planning tools, is making good progress in putting systems in place and setting targets related to ABET. The policy framework to form the basis for further ABET practices was was adopted by the MQA in August 2001. Keywords: adult basic education, training, research, statistics, provision, finance
	Strategic Plan for the Department of Education (2002-2004) Author: Department of Education Date: 20020613 Reference: Department of Education. 2002. Strategic Plan for the Department of Education (2002-2004). Pretoria: Department of Education Description: Provides some information on the plans for literacy, ABET and SANLI on pages 25 to 28 but impossible to determine budget because it is lumped together with Early Childhood Development Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, ECD, plan, curriculum, materials, finance
	Annual Report 2001 Author: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal Date: 20020729 Reference: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal. 2002. Annual Report 2001. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal Description: Annual report Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, research, universities
	Education for All: Status report for South Africa 2002 Author: Department of Education Date: 20021017 Reference: Department of Education. 2002. Education for All: Status report for South Africa 2002. Pretoria: Department of Education Description: Has a section on adult education and training on pages 45 to 48 which looks at adult basic education policy and plans, adult education provision and progress, and plans for 2002 to 2015. Keywords: adult basic education, training adult education, plan, provision, statistics
	Minutes of the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the ALBEd Foundation 28 October 2002 Author: Adult Literacy, Basic Education and Development Foundation Date: 20021028 Reference: Adult Literacy, Basic Education and Development Foundation. 2002. Minutes of the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the ALBEd Foundation 28 October 2002. Braamfontein: Adult Literacy, Basic Education and Development Foundation Description: Minutes that also provide an update on various adult basic education developments Keywords: adult basic education, literacy, development, finance, NGOs
	Correspondence between Edward French and John Aitchison on outcomes-based education Authors: French, E. and Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20021128-20031021 Reference: French, E. and Aitchison, J.J.W. 2002. Correspondence between Edward French and John Aitchison on outcomes-based education. [Unpublished correspondence] Description: An entertaining informal conversation between two adult education scholar activists on outcomes based education and the National Qualifications Framework Keywords: adult education, NQF, standards, outcomes, universities, history, ideology
	Policy study of the Growth Employment and Redistribution (GEAR) with respect to social development and adult basic education and training (ABET) Author: Mathe, K. Date: 200212 Reference: Mathe, K. 2002. Policy study of the Growth Employment and Redistribution (GEAR) with respect to social development and adult basic education and training (ABET). Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal [Unpublised minor Master of Education dissertation] Description: Although ABET is not mentioned at all in the GEAR strategy it is influenced by the GEAR policy and the author concludes that, because the GEAR strategy is based on neoliberal assumptions of stimulating foreign investment, export-led economic growth, global trade and global competition, underpinned by the conception that the state must play a minimal role in the economy, it is therefore not appropriate for the social development challenges (especially illiteracy) facing South Africa. Keywords: policy, ideology, adult basic education, history, HRD, development
	Adult Basic and Literacy Education in South Africa Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20021203-05 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2002. Adult Basic and Literacy Education in South Africa. [Paper presented at the International conference on Adult Basic and Literacy Education in the SADC region held 3-5 December 2002 at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg] Description: This paper is largely based on the report of a two-year research survey on adult basic education and training (ABET) undertaken by the Centre for Adult Education andthe Department of Adult and Community Education of the University of Natal in 1998 and 1999. The report, the University of Natal survey of adult basic education and training: South Africa was published in early 2000, is itself a synopsis of nine detailed provincial reports together with information summarised from separate studies done on demographics, curriculum, materials and assessment. Keywords: adult basic education, literacy, policy, provision, plan, finance, history, statistics, conferences
	The Pietermaritzburg Declaration, 2002 Author: International conference on Adult Basic and Literacy Education in the SADC region Date: 20021205 Reference: International conference on Adult Basic and Literacy Education in the SADC region. 2012. The Pietermaritzburg Declaration, 2002. [Declaration made at the International conference on Adult Basic and Literacy Education in the SADC region held 3-5 December 2002 at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg] Description: Conference declaration relating to literacy and adult basic education issues in the Southern African Development Community Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, development, policy, provision, plan, finance, history, statistics, conferences
	International conference on Adult Basic and Literacy Education in the SADC region 3 - 5 December 2002 Author: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal Date: 20040210 Reference: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal. 2003. International conference on Adult Basic and Literacy Education in the SADC region 3 - 5 December 2002. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal Description: An international conference for the Southern African Development Community with several general keynote adresses and twelve country papers. Keynote Addresses: Adult Basic and Literacy Education in SADC (Deputy Minister of Education, Mr Mosibudi Mangena) ABLE policies in an international perspective (Professor Agneta Lind) How to educate adults today in the perspective of Paulo Freire (Moacir Gadotti) Adult literacy and basic education: a SADC regional perspective (John Aitchison) Implementation Plan for Lifelong Education and Training 2002 – 2004 (John Aitchison) Country Papers: An overview of Adult Basic and Literacy Education in Botswana Basic Adult Education and Literacy in Lesotho Evolution of the action of literacy and numeracy education in Madagascar, since independence until now Adult Basic and Literacy Education in Malawi: Provision and Delivery Literacy: the driving force for development in Mauritius The Mozambican Experience in Adult Literacy and Education Overview of Adult Basic and Literacy Education Provision and Delivery in Namibia Adult Basic and Literacy Education in South Africa Swaziland: Adult Basic and Literacy Education in SADC: towards a regional strategy An overview of Adult and Literacy Education in Tanzania Growth and development of literacy in Zambia Adult Basic and Literacy Education in Zimbabwe (2002) Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, policy, provision, research, statistics
	Asifunde! Literacy Resources: 2002-2004
	Asifunde! Literacy Resources: 2002 - 2004 Author: Asifunde! Literacy Resources Project Date: 200208-2004 Reference: Asifunde! Literacy Resources Project. 2002. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal Description: The Asifunde! Literacy Resources project was set up to produce beginner literacy courses for adults who cannot read and write in South Africa's main official languages. The project was initially conceived of in response to the September 2000 call for a literacy campaign by the then Minister for Education, Kader Asmal. It started as a joint initiative of the Centre for Adult Education, two member organisations of the KwaZulu-Natal ABET Consortium (the Natal ABE Support Agency (NASA) and Tembaletu Community Education Centre) and the South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE). It was funded by the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID). The project developed two courses, one in Zulu and one in Sesotho Sa Lebowa (Pedi / Northern Sotho), in practical reading, writing and numeracy skills, as well a giving learners the chance to practise speaking English. Each course consisted of a Learner Workbook, an Educator Guide, a writing book for learners who need extra practice, a set of placement tests and back up testing and administrative materials. Two training courses, an Educator’s Course and a Co-ordinator’s Course were also made also available in English. There was also an accompanying set of ten easy readers in each language (these readers are now available with others on the New Readers Publications website (https://newreaders.co.za/). The Centre for Adult Education’s role in the initiative was the development and testing of learner’s and educator’s literacy materials in Zulu and Sesotho Sa Lebowa . The Learner’s Workbook was designed for learners to work through at their own pace and to take them from their first encounter with print in their mother tongue to a point where they can use newly developed literacy skills in a range of situations outside the classroom. It includes exercises in which the use of the literacy and numeracy skills they have learnt is simulated in a range of everyday contexts such as reading notices, writing letters, completing forms, comparing prices and resisting being coerced into signing a detrimental agreement. The Educator’s Guide does not assume expertise on the part of educators and offers step by step instructions for every page in the Learner’s Workbook. The Zulu Learner Workbook and Educator Guide were revised and expanded in 2004. Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, materials, assessment, reading The resources are divided by language: Zulu Learner workbook Learner Workbook Asifunde! Incwadi yabafundi (Zulu) (Second edition) Tests Tests (Zulu) Instructions for tests (English for Zulu) (Second edition) Reader exercises Guide to the reader exercises (English for Zulu) Educator guides Educator guide (English for Zulu) (Second edition) Administrative forms Guide to the administration forms Learner registration form Learner Weekly attendance register Monthly group report Monthly learner report Learner Progress record Educator profile form Sesotho sa Leboa Learner workbook Learner Workbook A re ithuteng! Mohlahla baithuti (Sesotho sa Leboa / Northern Sotho / Pedi) Tests Tests (including instructions) English Tests Instructions for tests (English for Zulu) (Second edition) Reader exercises Guide to the reader exercises (English for Zulu) Educator guides Educator guide (English for Zulu) (Second edition) Administrative forms Guide to the administration forms Learner registration form Learner Weekly attendance register Monthly group report Monthly learner progress report Learner Progress record Educator profile form Coordinator training course Coordinator training course
2003	Struggle and compromise: a history of South African adult education from 1960 to 2001 Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 2003 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2003. Struggle and compromise: a history of South African adult education from 1960 to 2001. Journal of Education, Number 29, pp. 125-178 Description: This is a comprehensive article that provides an overview of the history of adult education in South Africa from 1960 (when the apartheid regime crushed the main anti-apartheid political movements) to the end of 2001 when, after a period of struggle (which reached its climax in the late eighties and early nineties), South Africa was well into the second term of a democratic government. [Is complemented by Aitchison's companion 2003 article, Brak! – vision, mirage and reality in the post apartheid globalisation of South African adult education and training and his 2004 article, Lifelong learning in South Africa – dreams and delusions.] Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, history, policy, provision, ideology, universities
	Brak! - vision, mirage and reality in the post apartheid globalisation of South Africa adult education and training Author: Aitchson, J.J.W. Date: 2003 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2003. Brak! vision,mirage and reality in the post apartheid globalisation of South Africa adult education and training. Journal of Education, Number 31, pp. 47-73 Description: This article explores some of the history and the agents active in the this period in which much of South African general and adult education was captured by globalizing conceptions of education and training and instituted mechanisms (such as a standards based qualifications framework) by which these conceptions were established and institutionalised. Because South Africa, by virtue of its semi-isolation during the apartheid era, had been able to resist or been bypassed by many globalizing trends, the swiftness with which it succumbed to them in a few years deserves description and interpretation. The article looks both at the general influence of these global trends on South African adult education and their specific impact on adult education in South African universities within the context of a complex societal transformation. Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, history, policy, provision, ideology, globalization, standards, universities
	The new knowledge-rich society perpetuating marginalisation and exclusion Author: Baatjes, I. Date: 2003 Reference: Baatjes,I . 2003. The new knowledge-rich society perpetuating marginalisation and exclusion. Journal of Education, Number 31, pp. 193-204 Description: The article that draws attention to the marginalisation and exclusion of a large and growing sector of the South Africa population which is systematically being excluded from meaningful participation in the social, cultural, political, economic activities of society. It is argued that adult basic education is an important vehicle in overcoming marginalisation and exclusion and that deliberate efforts are required to incorporate large numbers of individuals into active citizenship and the new knowledge-rich society. The author looks at emancipatory and instrumentalist traditions of adult basic education and argues that the instrumentalist approach is emerging as the dominant one in defining the purpose of education in South Africa and that it contributes to the marginalisation and exclusion of under-educated, semi-illiterate and illiterate adults. Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, ideology, history, NGOs
	Reading in South Africa: an overview of policy, programmes and campaigns since 1994 Author: Baatjes, I. Date: 200306 Reference: Baatjes,I. 2003. Reading in South Africa: an overview of policy, programmes and campaigns since 1994. Innovation, Number 23, pp. 1-10 Description: This paper focuses on the need for literacy education and a reading policy in South Africa. A summary of statistical information about learners and schools is provided. The policy frameworks that shape literacy education and current provision and campaigns are described and critiqued. It is argued that a national policy is needed that focuses specifically on reading. Keywords: literacy, reading, history, policy, provision, plan
	The state of book development in South Africa Author: Land, S. Date: 2003 Reference: Land, S. 2003. The state of book development in South Africa. Journal of Education, Number 31, pp. 93-104 Description: Argues that though South Africa has a strong publishing industry it is not development oriented and illiteracy remains high with no growth of a reading culture, and resources for education of adults and children, especially in African languages, are both inadequate and underutilised, a situation worsened by ther collapse of the school textbook market and the shift to outcomes-based education (OBE) which was widely interpreted to imply that textbooks were unnecessary. In the ABET sector, publishing is minimal; the needs and rights of adult learners are simply not being addressed. Keywords: language, literacy, reading, policy, funding
	Challenges to the Siyafunda Literacy Campaign in Richmond Author: Land, S. Date: 200306 Reference: Land,S. 2003. Challenges to the Siyafunda Literacy Campaign in Richmond. Innovation, Number 26, pp. 38-42 Description: Concepts of literacy campaigns provide the context for a description and evaluation of the Siyafunda Literacy Campaign in the town of Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal and recent political events in the region are noted. The leadership provided by the mayor, the need for the involvement of community members and features of the campaign such as the I Love Reading Month, book flood, Family Book Project, the Mayor’s Reading Minutes and storytelling are briefly described as are the implementation and monitoring of the project and the lessons learnt. Keywords: literacy, reading, community education, history
	Adult learning network: Literacy and sustainable development Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 2003 Reference: Aitchison,J. 2003. Adult learning network: literacy and sustainable development. Pietermaritzburg and Durban: Adult Learning Network Description: This guide is one of a series on the design and implementation of a set of workshops related to literacy and adult basic education and training that were run by the Adult Learning Network at various centres in KwaZulu-Natal in 2002 and 2003. Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, development, plan, NGOs
	National Language Policy Framework Author: Department of Arts and Culture Date: 20030212 Reference: Department of Arts and Culture. 2003. National Language Policy Framework. Pretoria: Department of Arts and Culture Description: Explains the history, contexts, and legislation related to language policy, sets out the aims, principles, approach and scope of a new policy, presents a plan for building capacity with implementation strategies Keywords: language, policy, plan
	SAQA BULLETIN: Further education and training: Quo vadis? Author: South African Qualifications Authority Date: 200308 Reference: South African Qualifications Authority. 2003. Futher education and training: Quo vadis? SAQA Bulletin, Volume 7, Number 1 Description: This SAQA Bulletin focuses on Further Education and Training (FET) and includes a commissioned paper from the HSRC. "Further Education and Training: Quo Vadis?"prepared by Mr Botshabelo Maja and Ms Susan Meyer with responses from Cheryl Pearce, Prof Jairam Reddy, and Janet Lopes. Note: On the current SAQA website the file for the SAQA Bulletin, Volume 7, Number 1 (of 2003) has been incorrectly linked to the file for Volume 10, Number 2. Keywords: NQF, FET, training, TVET
	Public Further Education and Training Colleges Authors: Fisher, G., Jaff, R., Powell, L. and Hall, G. Date: 2003 Reference: Fisher, G. Jaff, R., Powell, L. and Hall,G. 2003. Public Further Education and Training colleges. In: HRD Review, 2023. pp. 326-351 Description: Describes the context and history of Technical and Vocational Education and Training colleges and the present set up of 50 merged, multi-campus institutions (called Further Education and Training institutions in terms of a 1998 Further Education and Training Act, and notes the need for these colleges to respond to labour-market and social demands, build staff capacity and develop a more appropriate funding mechanism Keywords: FET, TVET, policy, history, funding
	Summary of ABET transcripts Author: Mthwecu, Menzi Date: 2003 Reference: Mthwecu, M. 2003. Summary of ABET transcripts. Description: Summary of transcripts of workshops held with ABET learners in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Province, Free State that collected information on their motivation to continue learning, the resources they used, their response to various public media and broadcast programmes, and the impact of language on their studies Keywords: adult education, lifelong learning, curriculum, materials, language, media, radio, television, research
	Interpreting the 2002 National ABET Level 4 (GETC) Examination data Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 200303-04 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2003. Interpreting the 2002 National ABET Level 4 (GETC) Examination data. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal Description: Descriptive statistics that raise a number of (unanswered or unanswerable) questions Keywords: adult basic education, assessment, statistics, NQF, standards
	Interpreting the 2002 National ABET Level 4 (GETC) Examination data Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 200303 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2003. Interpreting the 2002 National ABET level 4 results. Talking Adult Learning. March/April 2003 Description: Descriptive statistics Keywords: adult basic education, assessment, statistics, NQF, standards
	Strategic Plan for the Department of Education (2003-2005) Author: Department of Education Date: 20030404 Reference: Department of Education. 2003. Strategic Plan for the Department of Education (2003-2005) Description: Provides some information on the plans for literacy on pages 26 to 27 but targets only 135 600 learners and plans on ABET on pages 42 to 44 and targets an increase in only 66 000 over the three years. Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, plan, policy, PALCs, practitioners
	Adult Literacy and Basic Education: A SADC regional perspective Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 2003 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. Adult Literacy and Basic Education: A SADC regional perspective. Adult Education and Development, No. 60. pp. 161-160 Description: A reprinting of most of a paper delivered at the International conference on Adult Basic and Literacy Education in the SADC region 3 - 5 December 2002. Keywords: literacy, adult education, lifelong learning, adult basic education, policy, provision, research, statistics, conferences Also published as: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2003. Alfabetización de adultos y educación básica: una perspectiva regional de la Comunidad de África Meridional para el Desarrollo. Educación de adultos y desarrollo, No. 60. pp. 179-190
	Adult Education. Report to the Portfolio Committee 13th May 2003 Author: Department of Education Date: 20030513 Reference: Department of Education. 2003. Adult Education. Report to the Portfolio Committee 13th May 2003. Pretoria: Department of Education Description: Lists new regulations for PALCs, conditions of service for educators, donor funding for SANLI for 237 000 learners, proposed funding norms for PALCs, other literacy programmes, voter education materials, and meetings with Adult Learning Network Keywords: adult basic education, PALCs, educators, practitioners, literacy, finance, statistics, legislation, NGOs
	The Centre for Adult Education, Annual Report 2002 Author: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal Date: 20030725 Reference: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal. 2003. The Centre for Adult Education, Annual Report 2002. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal Description: Annual report Keywords: adult education, literacy, adult basic education, plan, NGOs, research, materials, conferences
	Inequality, Poverty and Unemployment: Understanding some barriers to ‘development’ in education and training in South Africa Author: Motala, E. Date: 20030728 Reference: Motala, E. 2003. Inequality, Poverty and Unemployment: Understanding some barriers to ‘development’ in education and training in South Africa. [Keynote address to the Recognition of Priorb learning Conference, 28-30 July 2003 at the CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria] Description: A macro-look at South African and global economic influnces on development and education and training and whether RPL has a role in advancing a broad and more humanizing approach to development Keywords: adult education, development, ideology, training, statistics, history, policy, legislation, lifelong learning, RPL
	Draft: Norms and Standards for funding Public Adult Learning Centres Author: Department of Education Date: 20030829 Reference: Department of Education. Draft: Norms and Standards for funding Public Adult Learning Centres. Pretoria: Department of Education Description: Technical details of the funding of PALCs as part of a new funding framework including the contracting out to a consortium of service providers the development of the procedures Keywords: PALCs, finance, standards, policy, plan
2004	Changing class: education and social change in post apartheid South Africa Author: Baatjies, I., and Mathe, K. Date: 2004 Reference: Baatjies, I., and Mathe, K. 2004. Adult basic education and social change in South Africa, 1994 to 2003. In: Chisolm, L. (Ed.). 2004. Changing class: education and social change in post apartheid South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press, pp. 393-420 Description: Criticises current ABET policy and provision as instrumentalist instead of the emancipatory project it was meant to be. Provides some important historical updates for the early 2000s. Keywords: adult basic education, adult education, literacy, policy, provision, plan, history, ideology, curriculum, development, statistics, NGOs
	Writing wrong: conundrums of literacy and human rights Author: Kell, C. Date: 2004 Reference: Kell, C. 2004. Writing wrong: conundrums of literacy and human rights, Convergence, Volume 37, Number 3, pp. 27-40 Description: From the ideological base of the New Literacy Studies and Castells writings on global informational changes, argues for diversifying stratgies for informal promotion of literacy and delinking literacy promotion from the formal ABET system at the same time as strengthening the formal system. Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, policy, provision, ideology
	International conference on Adult Basic and Literacy Education in the SADC region 3 - 5 December 2002 Author: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal Date: 20040210 Reference: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal. 2003. International conference on Adult Basic and Literacy Education in the SADC region 3 - 5 December 2002. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal Description: An international conference for the Southern African Development Community with several general keynote adresses and twelve country papers. Keynote Addresses: Adult Basic and Literacy Education in SADC (Deputy Minister of Education, Mr Mosibudi Mangena) ABLE policies in an international perspective (Professor Agneta Lind) How to educate adults today in the perspective of Paulo Freire (Moacir Gadotti) Adult literacy and basic education: a SADC regional perspective (John Aitchison) Implementation Plan for Lifelong Education and Training 2002 – 2004 (John Aitchison) Country Papers: An overview of Adult Basic and Literacy Education in Botswana Basic Adult Education and Literacy in Lesotho Evolution of the action of literacy and numeracy education in Madagascar, since independence until now Adult Basic and Literacy Education in Malawi: Provision and Delivery Literacy: the driving force for development in Mauritius The Mozambican Experience in Adult Literacy and Education Overview of Adult Basic and Literacy Education Provision and Delivery in Namibia Adult Basic and Literacy Education in South Africa Swaziland: Adult Basic and Literacy Education in SADC: towards a regional strategy An overview of Adult and Literacy Education in Tanzania Growth and development of literacy in Zambia Adult Basic and Literacy Education in Zimbabwe (2002) Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, policy, provision, research, statistics, conferences
	The Women's Handbook. Second edition Authors: Centre for Adult Education and Midlands Women's Group Date: 2004 Reference: Centre for Adult Education and Midlands Women's Group. 2004. The Women's Handbook. Second edition. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal Description: Produced by the Centre for Adult Education, the Midland's Women's Group, and the Commission for Gender Equality and aimed at use in the Natal Midlands, this manual contains material on the following: Who makes the rules? Development and how it happens Women working together Social development Economic development and job creation Physical infrastructure Keywords: adult education, development, materials, women, health education, legislation
	SAQA Bulletin, Volume 5, Number 1, July 2004 Author: South African Qualfications Authority Date: 200407 Reference: South African Qualfications Authority. 2004. SAQA Bulletin, Volume 5, Number 1, July 2004. Pretoria: South African Qualfications Authority Description: Combines a number of important evaluative papers, mainly from 2003, on the National Qualifications Framework, the South African Qualfications Authority, and the Recognitiion of Prior Learning Isaacs, S. 2003. Understanding systemic change in building a South African education and training system that is world class Mehl, M. 2003. The national qualifications framework: quo vadis? Jansen, J. 2003. Meta-evaluation study: the review of the South African Qualifications authority (SAQA) and the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) Coetzee. 2003. Education and training in South Africa after a decade of democracy Heyns, R. 2003. Developing models for the assessment and recognition of prior learning Keywords: NQF, RPL, evaluation, standards, curriculum
	Special issue: Adult literacy in the African context Editor: Pretorius, E.J. Date: 2004 Reference: Pretorius, E.J. (Ed.). 2004. Special issue: Adult literacy in the African context. Language Matters. Studies in the Languages of Africa. Volume 35, Number 2, 2004 Description: Has a range of articles on family literacy, adult basic education, literacy and development, different approaches to adult literacy (FAL and REFLECT), adult literacy materials development and visual literacy: Literacy for now and for the future: Working with parents and children (Desmond, S.) Some reflections on the use of English as a medium of instruction in the Ikhwelo Project (Basel, B.) Mother-tongue education in schools in Kenya: Some hidden beneficiaries (Schroeder, L.) Flexibility in adult literacy programmes: Lessons learnt from Botswana (Hasselbring, S.) A comparison of the ideological foundation of the FAL and REFLECT approaches to teaching adult literacy in Uganda (Openjuru, G.) UMkhize, local hero, framed: A picture story for beginner adult readers in South Africa (Land, S. and Buthelezi, Z.) The language of pictures: Visual literacy and print materials for Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) (Arbuckle, K.) Tailoring print materials to match literacy levels: A challenge for document designers and practitioners in adult literacy (Carstens, A.) Keywords: literacy, language, adult basic education, training, curriculum, research, materials, family literacy, resources, ideology
	An investigation of the use of Asifunde! materials by educators and learners in mother tongue literacy classes in KwaZulu-Natal Author: Mbatha, L.L. Date: 200410 Reference: Mbatha, L.L. 2004. An investigation of the use of Asifunde! materials by educators and learners in mother tongue literacy classes in KwaZulu-Natal. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal [Master of Education dissertationm, University of Natal] Description: The study investigates the use of the Asifunde! materials by educators and learners in mother tongue literacy classes at two learning sites namely, Msunduzi and uMngeni Municipalities located in KwaZulu-Natal. The study focuses on the ways in which the Asifunde! materials (learners' workbook, educators guide and easy readers) are used in the classroom. Keywords: literacy, language, materials, research, KwaZulu-Natal
	The Centre for Adult Education Annual report 2003 and 2004 Author: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal Date: 20041029 Reference: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal. 2012. The Centre for Adult Education Annual report 2003 and 2004. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal Description: Annual Report Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, research, universities
	Lifelong learning in South Africa: dreams and delusions Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 200411 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2012. Lifelong learning in South Africa: dreams and delusions. Y: Z Description: A detailed and critical examination of the conceptualisations, policies and legislation about lifelong learning in post-apartheid South Africa and in the Southern African Development Community Keywords: lifelong learning, adult education, policy, plan, legislation, ideology
	Proposal for a School of Adult and Higher Education (SAHE) Author: Faculty of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal Date: 20041108 Reference: X. 2012. Proposal for a School of Adult and Higher Education (SAHE). Pietermaritzburg: Faculty of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal Description: Proposal for a School of Adult and Higher Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal consequent on the merger of the University of Natal with the University of Durban-Westville and reorganization of academic departments , that provides useful information on the history of the Centre for Adult Education at the University of Natal and its (unfortunately temporary) rise to be one of the largest university-based adult education enterprises in South Africa Keywords: adult education, universities, curriculum, history
2005	Information on the First World Congress on Literacy (Havana, 31 January-4 February 2005) Author: UNESCO Date: 2005031-0204 Reference: UNESCO. 2005. Information on the First World Congress on Literacy (Havana, 31 January-4 February 2005). In: UNESCO Executive Board Agenda 8 April 2005 Item 62 Description: Of interest notably because it was attended by Naledi Pandor, Minister of Education, who was influenced by the Cuban and Venezuelan presentations into considering having a similar literacy campaugn in South Africa, as did happen in 2008 with the launch of the Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign Keywords: literacy, adult education, conferences
	An investigation into adult educators' knowledge, understanding and application of the principle of learner-centredness in Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) centres in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal Author: Mkhize, V.G. Date: 200503 Reference: Mkhize, V.G. 2012. An investigation into adult educators' knowledge, understanding and application of the principle of learner-centredness in Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) centres in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal . Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal [Unpublished Master of Education dissertation] Description: This study investigated ABET tutors' knowledge, understanding and application of the principle of learner-centredness. The study was conducted at three adult education centres in Pietermaritzburg. KwaZulu-Natal. Using questionnaires. interviews, classroom observation and analysis of documentary evidence such as learning programmes, tutors workbooks and learners' workbooks, the researcher was able to detennine and assess the ability of ABET tutors to interpret and apply the principle of leamer-centredness in practical classroom situations. The study showed that not all ABET tutors base their learning programmes on learners' needs, which is a key principle ofleamer-centredness. The study showed that some ABET tutors are not conversant with the policy framework of ABET and that this seems to affect classroom practice. The study revealed that Centre managers are not complying with Department policy with regard to monitoring and supporting tutors. Furthermore, the findings from this study expose some of the flaws in the implementation of ABET, like the lack of professional competence on the part of some ABET tutors. This lack of professional competence is cause for concern and requires attention from the ABET Directorate at district level. Key reconunendations emerging from the study are that the ABET Directorate should conduct more monitoring of ABET centres and should provide more training for ABET tutors and centre mangers., as proposed in the Multi-Year Implementation Plan of 1997. In particular, tutors could benefit from workshops on needs identification and analysis. Keywords: adult basic education, practitioners, educators, management, curriculum, plan, monitoring and evaluation, research
	Linking literacy to development in South Africa Key lessons from projects funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. 1998 - 2004 Editor: Lyster, E. (Ed.) Date: 2005 Reference: Lyster, E. (Ed.). 2005. Linking literacy to development in South Africa Key lessons from projects funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. 1998 - 2004. Durban: Centre for Adult Education, School of Adult and Higher Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal Description: Descriptions and critiques of ten literacy, adult basic education and development programmes and projects funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund by authors John Aitchison, Sonya Keyser, Sandra Land and Elda Lyster Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, early childhood development, family literacy, development, research, ideology, evaluation, finance
	The New Literacy Studies meets development in practice Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 2005 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2005. The New Literacy Studies meets development in practice. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal [Unpublished Master of Education dissertation] Description: A report on and critique of a unique project among the projects examined in a study of Rockefeller Brothers Funded projects (See Lyster, 2005) that sought to test the practical application of a particular theory of literacy, namely the New Literacy Studies or the Social Uses of Literacy (or rather ‘literacies’) one, to development activities, that is, to the embedding of informal literacy provision within the context of an organisational or development project. This is the draft chapter that was somewhat sanitised in the published book. Not suitable for sensitive readers. Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, development, ideology, research, evaluation
	Govt's whoppers on adult literacy Author: MacFarlane, D. Date: 20050318 Reference: MacFarlane, D. 2005. Govt's whoppers on adult literacy. Mail & Guardian, 18 February, 2006 Description: Newspaper article drawing on a 2004 paper by Aitchison and Harley (published later in 2006) and the Department of Education's response to it Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, FET, adult education, research, statistics, universities
	A quick survey of SADC literacy statistics and projections Authors: Aitchison, J.J.W. and Rule, P. Date: 20050425 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. and Rule, P. 2005. A quick survey of SADC literacy statistics and projections. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal Description: This survey was a contribution to the Education for All Global Monitoring Reports which monitor progress towards the six Education for All goals to which commitments were made by over 160 countries at the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000. It provided available national data on literacy and illiteracy in the fifteen Southern African Development Community countries and outlines trends and patterns in literacy provision. Keywords: literacy, statistics
	Report. Ministerial Roundtable on adult basic education and literacy, Eskom Conference Centre, Midrand. 29 April 2005 Author: Department of Education Date: 200529 Reference: X. 2005. Report. Ministerial Roundtable on adult basic education and literacy, Eskom Conference Centre, Midrand. 29 April 2005. Pretoria: Department of Education Description: Designed to encourage dialogue between the Ministry of Education and ABET stakeholders to meet the challenges to eradicate illiteracy which existing ABET programmes and the SANLI campaign had not done. A number of key issues were identified and ways forward suggested Keywords: adult basic education, literacy, training, policy, NGOs
	It’s not inside, it’s on top! Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20050519-22 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2005. It’s not inside, it’s on top!. [Paper presented at the Conference "At the Margins of Adult Education, Work and Civil Society" held at the University of Joenssu, Joenssu, Finland on 19-22 May 2005] Description: A sequential description (enlivened by many engaging metaphors) of the history of South African adult education in the apartheid and post-apartheid eras and the ongoing marginalisation of the poor and poorly educated. Some attention is given to the role of NGOS and 'alternative education' in these developments. Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, training, history, NGOs, statistics, ideology
	Terms of Reference of the Public Hearing on the Right to Basic Education Author: South African Human Rights Commission Date: 20050816 Reference: South African Human Rights Commission. 2005. Terms of Reference of the Public Hearing on the Right to Basic Education. Johannesburg: South African Human Rights Commission Description: Terms of reference. There is a 2006 report (HR-2018-4) on the SAHRC website on these hearings, but they excluded adult basic education, restricting themselves to schooling for children. As it vsays on page 5 of this report: "Limiting the Public Hearing to this group has drawn criticism, particularly from role-players who have an interest in Early Childhood Development (ECD) and Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET)." Keywords: adult basic education, legislation
	Beyond ABET: An Umalusi/UKZN/Umsobomvu Colloquium Author: Umalusi Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training Date: 20050901-02 Reference: X. 2006. Beyond ABET: An Umalusi/UKZN/Umsobomvu Colloquium. Pretoria: Umalusi Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training Description: Convened by Umalusi, the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Adult Education and Umsobomvu Youth Fund, the Beyond ABET Colloquium of 1-2 September 2005 aimed to look especially at the relationship of regulation to provision in adult education and training. The event drew together over 100 people concerned with adult education and training. Participants came from government, NGO and private providers, national authorities, Sector Education and Training Authorities (Setas) and universities. Many expressed the feeling that the occasion was overdue and welcome. Since the days of participative policy consultations in the 1990s adult basic education and training (ABET) had fallen into a depression because of underachievement against high expectations. Links and communication had become relatively strained. The colloquium had been carefully planned in collective meetings and processes at Umalusi. Four opening presentations were made by speakers from organizations concerned in different ways with the regulation or quality assurance of adult education: Umalusi, the Department of Education, the South African Qualifications Authority (Saqa), the Independent Examinations Board (IEB) and the Chemical Industries Seta (Chieta). These were followed by presentations from providers chosen to reflect different orientations: the Department of Education, Project Literacy, the Expanded Public Works Programme, the Umsobomvu Youth Trust and Ditsela (an agency for training in the labour unions). Presentations were given by: Peliwe Lolwana (Umalusi), Eugene Rabe (Umalusi), David Diale (Department of Education): Joe Samuels (Saqa), Melissa King (IEB), Carmel Marock (Umsobomvu Youth Fund), Marongwa Ramarumo (Department of Education), Andrew Miller (Project Literacy), Deborah Byrne (Development Institute for Training Support and Education for Labour), Busani Ngcaweni (Umsobomvu Youth Fund), Scuduzo Simelane (Expanded Public Works Programme),Sandra Land (UKZN Centre for Adult Education), John Aitchison (UKZN School of Education), and Lyn Slonimsky (For Umsobomvu). Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, training, development, youth, NGOs, universities, research, evaluation, statistics, policy, plan, projects, policy, legislation
	Options for the obtaining of recognised qualifications for REFLECT practitioners Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20050818 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2005. Options for the obtaining of recognised qualifications for REFLECT practitioners. Cape Town: South Africa REFLECT Network Description: Outlines the processes by which a practitioners might obtain NQF recognised qualifications and provides six options by which the Network might obtain these for its staff after due consideration of the work and costs involved. Keywords: adult education, development, qualifications, accreditation, certification, NQF, practitioners
	Bringing Literacy Home. Family Literacy Conference Proceedings, 19-21 September, 2005 Editor: Land, S. (Ed.). Date: 20050919-21 Reference: Land, S. (Ed.). 2006. Bringing Literacy Home. Family Literacy Conference Proceedings, 19-21 September, 2005. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal Description: An extensive set of papers on family literacy and associated topics: Aitchison, J.J.W. and Land, S. (Welcome to the conference) Papers from South Africa Rule, P. and Lyster, E. (Keeping it in the family: exploring relations between family literacy, early childhood development and adult basic education) Kvalsvig, J. (Building family relationships around literacy) Slonimsky, L. and Stein, P. (An eye on the text and an eye on the future: multimodal family literacies in Gauteng) Sokhulu, T. (Family literacy practices in Qanda) Gush, C. (Promoting literacy in Early Childhood Development communities, Grahamstown) Trok, L. (Starting Early: First Words in Print Project Lawrence, M. (How children develop language and literacy Rall, M. (Museums and Literacy: A Case Study) Thornton, L. (The Story of “Let’s Make Books”) Reynolds, N., Thornton, L., and Lawrence, M. (The Family Maths Science’ Literacy and Life Skills Experience (FMSLL) in South Africa Papers from neighbouring countries Kasokonya S.M. and Kutondokua S.N. (Family Literacy programme in Namibia: What ways a family literacy programme can assist parents and other care providers to support their children in the first years of primary school). Maruatona, T. (Exploring the link between literacy, community participation and poverty alleviation in Botswana) Tirivayi, A. (Transcending numerical figures: The challenge of functional literacy in Zimbabwe and South Africa) Poster and workshop Project Literacy Family Literacy Project and Jill Frow Adults play at PLA and REFLECT Extracts from presentations for which no papers were available Valentine, B. (Masifunde Nosapho: “Let us learn with our families” Eastern Cape) Pretorius E. J. (Reading is FUNdamental Freinkel, E. (Reading is Relationships) Newman, M. and Dlangamandla, L. (Workshop: Masithethe: Let Us Talk About Early Childhood Development Keywords: literacy, family literacy, development, practitioners
	CE(PD) Curriculum Development Workshop Author: Centre for Adult Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal Date: 20050930 Reference: Centre for Adult Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal. 2005. CE(PD) Curriculum Development Workshop. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal Description: Outlines given at a curriculum development workshop of two programmes, Certificate in Education (Participatory Develoment) and Certificate in Education (Workplace learning) developed by the Centre for Adult Educatiuon, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg Keywords: adult education, development, training, practitioners, qualifications, curriculum
	Decentralization, management of diversity and curriculum renovation. A study of literacy education in four African countries Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20051015 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2006. Decentralization, management of diversity and curriculum renovation. A study of literacy education in four African countries. [Paper presented at the Association for the Development of Education in Africa Biennial Meeting, Libreville, Gabon, 27-31 March 2006] Description: This is a situational study of literacy education provision in four sub-Saharan African countries (Botswana, Kenya, Uganda and South Africa) that focuses on the decentralisation of programme management (particularly in relation to policies, planning, implementation strategies, curriculum and practices) to meet the diversity of language, culture and contextual requirements in these countries. The study provides an analytical description of the situation in the four countries that focusses on the provision to adult literacy learners and how education policies, strategies and practices serve them and to what extent decentralisation and curriculum renovation are responding to learner diversity and need. An assessment is made of the likely impact of the situation and developments in provision on the reaching of Education for All goals in these countries and some recommendations are made. Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, development, management, policy, plan, curriculum, statistics
	A Foucauldian critique of the development and implementation of the South African National Qualifications Framework Author: Keevy, J.A. Date: 200511 Reference: Keevy, J.A. 2005. A Foucauldian critique of the development and implementation of the South African National Qualifications Framework. Pretoria: University of South Africa. [Unpublished Doctoral dissertation] Description: This study investigates the development and implementation of the South African National Qualifications Framework (NQF) since its conceptualisation in the early 1860 up to 2005. Premised on the concern that power struggles (as perceived through a Faucauldian lens) are having a negative effect on the development and implementation of the NQF, the purpose of the study is to support improved future development and implementation of the NQF by describing the amalgamation of the different and contradictory views that support the development pf an NQF that replaces all existing and divisive education and training structures in South Africa. A further purpose of the study is to reveal this NQF discourse as a system in which power is exercised, and then to make recommendations on minimising the negative effects of the power struggles. The study includes an extensive review of local and international literature on NQF development and implementation. Keywords: NQF, standards, ideology, history
2006	South African illiteracy statistics and the case of the magically growing number of literacy and ABET learners Authors: Aitchison, J.J.W. and Harley, A. Date: 200609 Reference: Aitchison, J,.J.W. and Harley, A. 2006. South African illiteracy statistics and the case of the magically growing number of literacy and ABET learners. Journal of Education, Number 39, pp.89-112 Description: A scoriating statistical demolition of the misleading statistics on adult basic education student enrolments and educators put out by the Department of Education. Originally written in September 2004. Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, FET, educators, statistics, research
	Isicathamiya saseStoffelton: Reflections on an education for democracy project Authors: Memela, B. and Land, S. Date: 200609 Reference: X. 2012. Isicathamiya saseStoffelton: Reflections on an education for democracy project. Journal of Education, Number 39, pp. 47-62 Description: This article describes a Human Rights, Development and Democracy project run as a co-operative initiative between an NGO offering adult basic education (ABE) in rural centres in KwaZulu-Natal, and the Centre for Adult Education, of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Informed by, among others, Mezirow’s transformational theory, the project combined adult basic education with education for democracy and income generation projects, with a view to enable people to reach new perceptions of their lives and South African society. The article looks at: 1. The combination of education for democracy with adult literacy classes, and the setting up and running of community projects by participants. 2. The extent to which the aim of the projects (to provide real practical opportunities for exercising newly gained rights, accessing resources and negotiating with various other organisations) was met. 3. Difficulties encountered in using two languages (English and Zulu) in training, and attitudes of students to Zulu as an indigenous language used as a language of higher learning 4. Attempts to evoke a critical attitude on the part of educators and rural participants 5. The development of published informal basic education materials drawing on practical experiences from this project. Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, voter education, democracy, development, language, materials
	“The time is burning”: The right of adults to basic education in South Africa Author: Rule, P. Date: 200609 Reference: Rule, P. 2006. “The time is burning”: The right of adults to basic education in South Africa. Journal of Education, Number 39, pp. 113-135 Description: This paper examines the bases for holding the government to account in the constitutional court for its neglectin upholding the constitutional right of adults to basic education over the last decade. It examines the effectiveness of government responses to adult illiteracy since 1994, drawing on a range of policy documents, statistics, scholarly reviews and other data. It outlines two lines of argument which might be pursued against the government: its underspending on adult basic education, and its failure to cater for adults for whom the formal ABET system is not accessible. On a constructive note, it calls for a comprehensive approach to the challenges of adult basic education, outlining key principles that might inform such an approach as well as alternative models of provision. Keywords: adult basic education, legislation, policy, finance, human rights
	Adult learning within lifelong learning: a different lens, a different light Author: Walters, S. Date: 200609 Reference: Walters, S. 2006. Adult learning within lifelong learning: a different lens, a different light. Journal of Education, Number 39, pp. 7-26 Description: Walters offers a critique of Aitchison's 2003 paper (Brak! – vision, mirage and reality in the post apartheid globalisation of South African adult education and training) for not having a clear descriptive lens and focussing too much on the state adult education system. In contrast, using a positive lifelong learning wide-angle lens she identifies a vast array of adult learning activities and sees major benefits in the National Qualfications Framework and its spin-offs. Keywords: adult education, lifelong learning, ideology, history, NQF, policy, plan, NGOs
	Equity, access, and success: adult learners in public higher education Authors: Buchler, M., Castle, J., Osman, R. and Walters, S. Date: 2006 Reference: Buchler, M., Castle, J., Osman, R. and Walters, S. 2006. Equity, access, and success: adult learners in public higher education. In: Review of Higher Education in South Africa. Selected Themes. Pretoria: Council on Higher Education, pp. 124-156 Description: Defines what an adult learner is in the context of higher education, surveys key themes in the literature on adult learners within higher education, and looks at the data an some case studies on their participation in South African higher education Keywords: adult education, higher education, lifelong learning, universities
	Opening and closing doors for adult learners in a South African university Authors: Castle, J., Munro, K. and Osman, R. Date: 2006 Reference: Castle, J., Munro, K. and Osman, R. 2006. Opening and closing doors for adult learners in a South African university. International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 26 (2006), pp. 363–372 Description: A critical examination via a case study of one university, the University of the Witwatersrand, of how South African universities have responded to national policy directives to broaden access to mature adult learners that shows that the approach to adult learners adapted by policy makers in government and in the University is at best ambivalent, and at worst self-defeating Keywords: adult education, higher education, universities
	ABET programmes at Community Learning Centres in the Western Cape Author: Larney, R. Date: 2006 Reference: Larney, R. 2006. ABET programmes at Community Learning Centres in the Western Cape. Bellville: University of the Western Cape [Unpublished Master of Education mini-thesis] Description: Defines adult basic education and training, explains the theories underlying its practice and its supposed converging of education and training, outlines its implementation in the Western Cape and presents two case studies, and concludes that ABET has not been implemented as intended Keywords: adult basic education, PALCs, CLCs, history, ideology
	Adult education in South African public libraries: a profile of activities Authors: Nassimbeni, M. and May, B. Date: 2006 Reference: Nassimbeni, M. and May, B. 2006. Adult education in South African public libraries: a profile of activities. Y: Z Description: An article that reports on the findings of a research investigation into the role of South African public libraries in adult education that got a 45.5% response to a questionnaire from 1295 public libraries and conducted eleven site visits, that only 23.1% of public libraries participate at all in any adult education initiatives, a finding at odds with the transformative agenda of the public library community of South Africa. Keywords: adult education, libraries, research, finance
	Latin lessons Author: Melville, L. Date: 20060530 Reference: Melville, L. 2006. Latin Lessons. Witness, 30 may 2006 Description: Newspaper article interviewing Cassius Lubisi, superintendent-general of the KwaZulu-Natal Education Department on the launch of the provincial Masifundisane ("let us teach each other") Campaign for adult literacy, who makes reference to the Cuban and Venezuelan campaigns using the Yo, Si Puedo literacy teaching method. [Note: Yo, sí puedo was a new (and somewhat odd) Cuban designed method, not the original Cuban 1960 campaign phonetic method.] Keywords: literacy, KwaZulu-Natal, campaign, adult education
	Adult learning needs urgent overhauling Author: Blaine, S. Date: 20060804 Reference: Blaine, S. 2006. Adult learning needs urgent overhauling. Business Day 4 August 2006 Description: Reports speech by Deputy Education Minister Enver Surty that adult education had become utlitarian and narrow and had to change as well as that a Ministerial Committee on Literacy had prsented Minister Naledi Pandor with a report. Keywords: adult education, literacy
	Premier calls on KZN to eradicate illiteracy Author: Msomi, S. Date: 20060823 Reference: Msomi, S. 2006. Premier calls on KZN to eradicate illiteracy. Witness, 23 August 2006 Description: KwaZulu-Natal Premier S’bu Ndebele calls on volunteers for the Masifundisane literacy campiagn Keywords: literacy, campaign, finance
	Abet is an 'impediment to learning Author: Makhanya, S. Date: 20060908 Reference: Makhanya, S. 2012. Abet is an 'impediment to learning. Witness, 8 September 2006 Description: Cassius Lubisi, superintendent-general of the KwaZulu-Natal Education Department describes ABEt as an impediment to learning Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, conference, statistics
	Third of SA adults have little or no schooling Author: Ntshingila, F. Date: 20060910 Reference: Ntshingila, F. 2012. A. Y: Sunday Times, 8 September 2006 Description: Reports on READ Educational Trust report that one in three South Africans over the age of 20 has no schooling at all or has not completed primary school and that 73% of schools have no library facilities Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, statistics
	Literacy a priority in KZN Author: KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education Date: 20061208 Reference: KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education. 2006. Literacy a priority in KZN. Mail and Guardian, 8 December 2006 Description: Acting director: media and citizen liaison of the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education responds to an article by David Macfarlane on 24 November 2006 about ABET educators not being paid by claiming that no teaching is done in October and November and that there are fraudulent claims from teachers Keywords: adult basic education, educators, practitioners, finance, statistics
	Further Education and Training Colleges Act, 2006 Author: Department of Education Date: 20061211 Reference: Department of Education. 2006. Further Education and Training Colleges Act, 2006. Government Gazette, Volume 497, Number 29469 Description: Act to provide for the regulation of further education and training; to provide for the establishment, governance and funding of public further education and training colleges; to provide for the employment of staff at public further education and training colleges; to provide for the registration of private further education and training colleges; to provide for the promotion of quality in further education and training; to provide for transitional arrangements and the repeal or amendment of laws Keywords: FET, TVET, policy, legislation
	South Africa REFLECT Network: 2006
	South Africa REFLECT Network documents: 2006 Author: South Africa REFLECT Network (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2006 Reference: South Africa REFLECT Network. 2006. Johannesburg: South Africa REFLECT Network Description: The South Africa REFLECT Network (REFLECT being "Regenerating Freirean Literacy through Empowering Community Techniques") was formally registered as a non-profit company on 26 July 2005. REFLECT was a particular literacy and development approach that started as an ACTIONAID (an International organization fighting against poverty worldwide) research project in 1993 that combined Freirian adult literacy methods with Participatory Rural Appraisal. Key advocates were David Archer and Sara Cottingham (see Archer, D. 2021. Reflections on the Reflect Approach and its Multiple Evolutions. In: Burns, D., Howard, J., and Ospina, S.M. (Eds). 2021. The SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry, pp. 355-367). It popularity grew and an informal network of South African REFLECT practitioners grew into the South Africa REFLECT Network. The Network aimed to strengthen the lives of the poor and excluded people and encourage them to become vibrant and vocal members of civil society by building a critical mass of civil society organisations effectively practising Reflect and sharing learning and strengthening quality implementation of Reflect programmes in action. By creating a structured and well resourced representative network of Reflect practitioners, participants and advocates, SARN has a key role to play in contributing to the realisation of the rights of the poor and vulnerable people, and of women in particular. The organisation received funding from ActionAid, the German Adult Education Association, and the Open Society Institute but did not grow as well as expected and it deregistered in 2015 after funding dried up. Keywords: literacy, development, PRA, adult education, practitioners, finance, NGOs, universities 200603 Birkett, J. 2006. REFLECT Facilitator Training: Currency and accreditation options. Report for IIZ-DVV and the South African Reflect Network (SARN) 20060512 Birkett, J. (for Leumer, W.). 2006. Invitation Invitation to a round table discussion on accreditation of REFLECT Facilitator and Trainer Training. Cape Town: German Adult Education Association
	Ministerial Committee on Literacy: 2006
	Ministerial Committee on Literacy documents: 2006 Author: Ministerial Committee on Literacy (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2006 Reference: Ministerial Committee on Literacy. 2006. Pretoria: Ministerial Committee on Literacy, Department of Education Description: In early 2006 a Ministerial Committee on Literacy was set up and, after a study tour of Cuba, Venezuela, and New Zealand, in June 2006 submitted a Report to the Minister of Education (which was never published) outlining in some detail a proposed adult literacy campaign. The campaign aimed to implement a South African plan to: • have the country declared a territory free of illiteracy in the context of UNESCO’s global strategy to reduce illiteracy • meet South Africa’s commitment at Dakar in 2000 to reduce illiteracy by at least 50% • reach 4.7 million illiterates, wherever they are, by the end of 2012 • adhere to a set of operational principles that include service to the disabled, engaging youth in the campaign, and linking the campaign to other government initiatives • be fully supported and participated in by a full range of government departments and the business and non-profit sectors. The literacy provision was to concentrate on mother tongue alphabetisation and functional literacy in all South Africa’s official languages and well as numeracy at the level of basic number concepts and arithmetic operations in everyday contexts. Clear learning outcomes related to alphabetisation and functional literacy, mother tongue literacy, the language of the economy and numeracy were to provide a base for sustainable literacy. The level reached was to be more or less equivalent to the current Adult Basic Education and Training level 1. The objectives of the campaign were to: • Ensure the achievement of clear learning outcomes related to alphabetisation and functional literacy, mother tongue literacy, the language of the economy and numeracy. • Teach participants to read, write and calculate in a sustainable and functional way. • Contribute to developing people’s capacity to function in society with the reading, writing and general knowledge skills that empower the individual and help him or her to know his or her rights and responsibilities as a member of society. • Provide literacy and numeracy instruction of a quality and quantity to ensure that the literacy skills gained can be practised and retained by the participants after the campaign has ended. • Focus on what is delivered at each learning site. • Establish relationships with a wide range of people and organisations drawn from all sectors of society and generally mobilize a literacy supportive environment through community, youth and government efforts. The Report provided a rationale, outcomes, and outlines of structures and processes for governance, organisation operations, educational delivery, educator training, curriculum and materials development, coordination (administration), advocacy, publicity and mobilisation, data management, financial management, monitoring, evaluation and research. The report was approved by the South African Cabinet on 23 November 2006 which decided that the proposed mass literacy campaign should be overseen by an Inter Ministerial Committee with the following members: Education, Defence, Correctional Services, Safety and Security, Arts and Culture, Trade and Industry, Science and Technology, Labour, and the Presidency. Keywords: literacy, adult education, development, policy, plan, campaign, universities, finance 20060105 MCL Aitchison Acceptance letter 20060202 MCL Draft programme and itinerary 20060203 MCL Establishment of MCL Government Gazette No 28426 20060207 Business Day 20060203 20060227 MCL Draft itinerary for visits to Cuba, Venezuela and New Zealand 20060303 MCL Overall timetable 20060303 Mass literacy campaigns (Aitchison and McKay) 20060404 Draft ICT Architecture (Grewan) 200605 MCL Aitchison Problem and challenge paper 20060501 MCL UKZN Mazibuko to Aitchison 20060501 MCL UKZN Mazibuko to Vithal 20060507 MCL UKZN Aitchison to Kunene 20060621 MCL Presentation to Senior mgt draft 20060623 MCL Presentation to DoE Senior mgt 20060811 MACMLC campaigns 20060811 MACMLC elements 20060811 MACMLC principles 20060811 MACMLC research 20060811 MACMLC social 20060811 MACMLC structures 20060926 MACMLC Secretariat setup options 20060619 Ministerial Committee on Literacy Final Report 20061006 DoE Pandor Memo to Cabinet on MCL report 20061106 DoE DG presentation to cabinet Committee revd 20061106 MACMLC Presentation on MCL report (119 slides) as DG aide memoir revd 20061123 Presentation to UNESCO EFA Meeting (Aitchison) 20061123 DoE Jacobs report to DOE Senior Management on Cabinet meeting 15 Nov 2006 20061124 Cape Argus Cabinet nod for 6 bn literacy campaign 20061211 Mail and Guardian 20061211
	Ministerial Advisory Committee on a Mass Literacy Campaign: 2006
	Ministerial Advisory Committee on a Mass Literacy Campaign documents: 2006 Author: Ministerial Advisory Committee on a Mass Literacy Campaign (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2006 Reference: Ministerial Advisory Committee on a Mass Literacy Campaign. 2006. Pretoria: Ministerial Advisory Committee on a Mass Literacy Campaign, Department of Education Description: In mid-2006 the original Ministerial Committee on Literacy had its life extended under a revised name and then began a inordinately protracted process, now in the hands of the Department of Education, to take the Ministerial Committee's Report to Cabinet. This was finally achieved on 26 November, nearly five wasted months later. The Report was endorsed, a more detailed operational plan was requested and a governance body of an Inter-Ministerial Committee approved. At this stage some of the first obvious warning signs were evident. Vernon Jacobs, Acting Director of the Adult Education Directorate, who had been at the pre-Cabinet committee meeting at which the Department had presented the Report refused to show the Ministerial Committee his record of the meeting (which he claimed was for the Department alone) and in November Aitchison wrote a formal letter of complaint to Lubisi. Unfortunately nothing was done to redress this problem and the situation was now further bedevilled by the slow process of the secondment of members of the Ministerial Committee to the Department. Keywords: literacy, adult education, development, policy, plan, campaign, universities, finance 2006 Talking about a mass literacy campaign Adult Learning 20060713 MACMLC Draft Government notice on ToR for MACMLC 20060801 MACMLC Aitchison Acceptance letter 20060811 MACMLC campaigns 20060811 MACMLC elements 20060811 MACMLC principles 20060811 MACMLC research 20060811 MACMLC social 20060811 MACMLC structures 20060919 Jacobs to MACMLC on Cabinet memo and budget 20060926 MACMLC Secretariat setup options 20061006 DoE Memo to Cabinet on national literacy campaign 20061006-07 MACMLC Draft agenda for MACMLC two day meeting 20061009 MACMLC Curriculum matters (McKay) 20061106 DoE DG presentation to cabinet Committee revd 20061106 MACMLC Presentation on MCL report (119 slides) as DG aide memoir revd 20061110 MACMLC ToR for MACMLC in Government Gazette 20061123 Presentation to UNESCO EFA Meeting (Aitchison) 20061124 MACMLC Draft agenda for MACMLC meeting 24 November 2006 20061128 MACMLC Aitchison to Lubisi on complaint about Jacobs
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	Ministerial Advisory Committee on a Mass Literacy Campaign: 2007
	Ministerial Advisory Committee on a Mass Literacy Campaign documents: 2007 Author: Ministerial Advisory Committee on a Mass Literacy Campaign (unless otherwise ascribed) Date: 2007 Reference: Ministerial Advisory Committee on a Mass Literacy Campaign. 2007. Pretoria: Ministerial Advisory Committee on a Mass Literacy Campaign, Department of Education Description: In mid-2006 the original Ministerial Committee on Literacy had its life extended under a revised name and then began an inordinately protracted process to take the Ministerial Committee's Report to Cabinet (done on 23 November 2006 nearly five wasted months later at which the Report was endorsed and a more detailed Operational plan was requested. The Operational Plan, prepared largely by John Aitchison, was submitted in May 2007 and endorsed by the cabinet on 22 August 2007 and a governance body of an Inter-Ministerial Committee approved. A National Literacy Colloquium was held on 3 May 2007, the first unveiling of the whole campaign. During much of this period there was obstruction from various Department of Education Officials. There was a slow process for the the secondment of some members of the Ministerial Committee to a campaign Gear Up team that would be housed in the Department. Keywords: literacy, adult education, development, policy, plan, campaign, universities, finance 20070212 MACMLC Notes from meeting of 12 February 20070219 Independent Examinations Board ABET users forum (Aitchison] 200703 MACLC GCIS questions for meeting revised 20070325 MACMLC Presentation on MCL report (38 slides) 20070326 MACMLC Presentation on MCL report (109 slides) 20070326 MACMLC youth 20070405 Briefing notes bv Jacobs for DDG re meeting with Lubisi and Aitchison 200705 MACMLC FAQ with answers 20070506 Aitchison's recasting of cabinet member questions of 15 November 2006 re the campaign 20070600 MACMLC Jacobs letters to committee members and institutions re MACMLC 20070606 DoE MACMLC Jacobs to MACMLC re Extension of Committee time 200707 DoE MACMLC Draft Government notice on extension of time of MACMLC 20070707 MACMLC Aitchison letter to Lubisi re delays in Gear Up 20070710 MACMLC Minutes 10 July 2007 20070823 DoE HEDCOM Update on MACMLC 20070828 Presentation to Mpumalanga DoE 20070907 Presentation to Social Cluster version 2 20071004 Presentation to Arts and Culture version 2 by Jacobs 20071005 Presentation to Department of Social Development version 2 20071006 MACMLC Relations with Provincial initiatives 20071019 DoE Presentation to Portfolio committee 20071102 Presentation to Mining Qualifications Authority Where is the literacy campaign The Operational Plan 20060515 Cabinet memo MACMLC Drafted by Committee 20060518 MACMLC Rolling work programme Financial year 2007-2008 Final 20060515 Cabinet memo MACMLC on Operational Plan in DoE format (Draft 1) 200606 Cabinet memo MACMLC on Operational Plan in DoE format (Draft 2) 200606 Cabinet memo MACMLC on Operational Plan in DoE format (Draft 3) 2006006 Cabinet memo MACMLC on Operational Plan in DoE format (Draft 4) 2006006 Cabinet memo MACMLC on Operational Plan in DoE format (Draft 5) 20060611 MACMLC Strategic Plan with covers 20070611 20060628 MACMLC Operational Plan 1 Final with appendices and budget 200607 Cabinet memo MACMLC on Operational Plan in DoE format (Draft 6) 200607 Cabinet memo MACMLC on Operational Plan in DoE format (Draft 7) 2006007-08 Emails on Cabinet memo Short version draft 4 20060718 Minister's presentation on Operational Plan 20060813 Minister's presentation on Operational Plan 20060823 Statement on Cabinet meeting of 22 August 2007 National Literacy Colloquium 3 May 2007 20070327 Submission to Minister - ABET Colloquium April 2007 20070427 MACMLC Operational Plan 1 Rolling work programme Financial year 2007-2008 20070430 Colloquium invitation 20070502 Colloquium confirmations 20070503 Colloquium Programme 20070503 MACMLC Colloquium presentation revised 20070503 Colloquium Aitchison presentation notes 20070503 MCL Report Summary 20070504 Gordon Naidoo comments on colloquium 20070508 Colloquium Curriculum group report 20070508 2007050S Colloquium Monitoring, evaluation and research group report 2007050S Colloquium Organisational structure and Logistics working group report 20070509 Colloquium Report 20020509 20070521 DoE Report on Colloquium 20070531 Colloquium summary of working group reports 20070621 Submission to Minister on Update on Post colloquium activities 20070626 Submission to Minister on Update on Post colloquium activities Response to Minister's comments
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	S Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. Date: 20080717 Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 2008. Again! Bad faith and the educational bureaucracy. Can adult education be provided in Southern Africa? [Paper presented at the Southern African Comparative and History of Education Society Annual Conference, Maputo, 17-19 July 2008] Description: Keywords: literacy, governance, ideology
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