Richard Waller
Biographic Data
| ID | 95422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Waller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Waller |
| SIGNATURE | WALLER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bucknell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0697-3183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 92 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 574 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 89 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Making the Maasai: Revisiting the history of Rift Valley Maa-speakers c.1800–c.1930
This article offers a re-assessment of Maasai history from 1800 to 1930, taking a critical look at both the existing historiography and the sources on which it is based. It examines how Maasai institutions and group identities adapted to long-term environmental and social challenges, including climate change, disease, conflicts over resources and the advent of colonial overrule, always with survival as the main imperative. What emerges is a more …
Selling Our Youth: Graduate Stories of Class, Gender and Work in Challenging Times
Selling Our Youth explores the way the class origins of recent graduates continue to shape their labour market careers and thus to reproduce class privilege and class disadvantage, illustrating how class and gender come together to influence these young adults’ opportunities and choices.
Aligning skills and lifelong learning for human-centred sustainable development
Lifelong education research over 40 years: Insights from the International Journal of Lifelong Education
With this special issue of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, we complete a two-year celebration and critical examination of the field of adult lifelong education, prompted by the journal’s fortieth anniversary. In this editorial we provide a brief account of this celebration and its rationale, but also devote attention to the origins and early years of the journal itself
Forty years of the International Journal of Lifelong Education: Reflections on a changing field
Shaping the field of lifelong education through three critical debates in the International Journal of Lifelong Education
The editors approached the 40th anniversary of the International Journal of Lifelong Education as an opportunity to consider the field by exploring how a corpus of 1462 articles (the first 40 volumes of the journal) questioned and shaped the field. A subset of advisory board members and the editors gathered in 2021 in groups to analyse major topics. The records of the reading, analyses and discussions of these groups offer a unique snapshot of th…
Theorising adults, theorising learning
The irony of all theorising is its propensity to generate, not an understanding, but a not-yet-understood. (Oakshot, in Muller, 2015, p. 1) \n \nAdult learning theory is one of the central domains of lifelong education research. Anyone coming to the study of adults as they adapt to and change in life, work and education will encounter theories such as ‘behaviourism’, ‘cognitive psychology’, and ‘humanist psychology’, often expanded to include adu…
Rapid charging provision, multiplicity and battery electric vehicle (BEV) mobility in the UK
A year of Covid-19 pandemic: Exposing the fragility of education and digital in/equalities
March 2021 marked one year since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous editorials reflected on social inequality, a longstanding problem in lifelong education, in light of the pandemic (Waller et al., 2020), and on the role of learning cities and regions to make education systems resilient to the pandemic (Webb et al., 2020). Writing when a third wave of COVID-19 is being experienced in several countries, it is wo…
Reassessing the social benefits of lifelong learning in light of the Covid pandemic
This editorial focuses on what is widely regarded as a beneficial aspect of adult education, that is, increased opportunities for socialising, and how they may have been reduced by the general move to online learning in response to the COVID pandemic. Whilst some scholars have previously highlighted the potential negative social aspects of adults engaging with lifelong learning on relationships with those closest to them (e.g. Waller et al., 2011…
Lifelong education international: Forwards and/or backwards
With this issue, the International Journal of Lifelong Education enters its fortieth year of publication. It was launched, under the editorship of Peter Jarvis and J.E. (Teddy) Thomas, in a different era. We are now embarking on a two-year project to mark the completion of this anniversary, and to launch us into our fifth decade. The project involves looking back and peering forward. It comprises two main elements, the outcomes of which will, we …
Who is ‘competent’ to shape lifelong education’s future
Lifelong education practice and research are about important processes but also generate visions of what those processes should be and lead to. Many are drawn to the field of lifelong education because of traditions that have articulated visions of adults and their communities as capable of growth, emancipation and empowerment, and look to educational policies, systems, institutions, and programmes in terms of how they can foster those visions. F…
Antoine Galland (1646-1715) et son Journal: Actes du colloque international organise a l'Universite de Liege (16-18 fevrier 2015) a l'occasion du tricentenaire de sa mort
Lifelong education, social inequality and the Covid-19 health pandemic
What can lifelong education researchers learn from the COVID-19 pandemic? There are, of course, ‘quick’ lessons: societies, for instance, clearly learn from experience. East Asian societies, and governments, learned from SARS and the devastating effect it had in cities such as Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Beijing in 2003 (Abraham, 2004). Of course there was the general lesson that a new coronavirus should not be taken lightly: no doubt there was als…
Educational research in authoritarian times
Across the world, political winds are filling authoritarian sails. From China to Hungary, Brazil to Poland, Turkey to Egypt, Russia to the USA, ‘strong leaders’ hold the helm. Democratic institutions creak or crack. Elections are ‘managed’, postponed, abolished; voters are suborned by ‘fake news’; opposition is harassed, banned, branded treasonous or terroristic. Checks and balances on executive power are ignored or derided; leaders’ terms of off…
Adult education, vocational education and economic policy: Theory illuminates understanding
Adult education and vocational education have a long and complex relationship. At many levels, they remain distinct ideas and each is the focus of a dedicated body of research and theory. At the same time, overlaps have always been acknowledged. This relationship and how it plays out in economic policy settings is the focus of this editorial. The Australian case is taken up as illuminating especially when viewed through the lens of Bourdieu’s ana…
Learning cities and implications for adult education research
Writing this editorial whilst many people are experiencing a second wave of the global COVID-19 pandemic, it is interesting to reflect on learning and the role of education providers. Arguably, in some countries such as the UK, the media has constructed a bad-news story about online learning in these times. Rather than discuss areas of community and adult education provision that have been neglected or the potential of formal, informal and non-fo…
Discussing Atypical Sexual Harassment as a Controversial Issue in Bystander Programmes: One UK Campus Study
This research emanates from an anti-sexual violence bystander programme delivered at an English university. Fifteen students were identified through purposive and convenience sampling to take part in focus groups. Discussions emerged regarding atypical sexual harassment. There is a gap in the literature exploring sexual harassment outside of the male perpetrator and female victim narrative which this paper contributes to. This paper considers fou…
An inseparable aspect of citizenship”: Marking a centenary in “universal and lifelong” adult education
This year we mark a major adult education centenary: the publication, in November 1919, of the Final Report of the British Ministry of Reconstruction’s Adult Education Committee. This was a landmark in our field – probably the first major official report on adult education in any country to be based on serious empirical research. More important, perhaps, it set out a strong political case for a broad – lifelong and lifewide – adult education curr…
Conceptualising lifelong learning for sustainable development and education 2030
Lifelong learning has been identified as crucial to the achievement of sustainable development and quality education in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. By incorporating the need to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all in the sustainable development goal 4 (SDG4), which was agreed by the United Nations member states in 2015, policy makers have recognised that education should reach beyond the formal institutional arrangemen…
Data, artificial intelligence and policy-making: Hubris, hype and hope
A few years ago, the European Commission commissioned and published an influential report, reviewing what adult education policy-makers could learn from research – chiefly research funded by the Commission itself under successive Framework research programmes (now rebranded ‘Horizon’) (Federighi, 2013). The report covered a range of areas, including the aims of continuing vocational education and training and adult education, how adult education …
The Palgrave International Handbook on Adult and Lifelong Education and Learning
Legal History and Historiography in Colonial Sub-Saharan Africa
Increasingly, the study of law in colonial Africa has moved out of the domain of legal scholarship per se, where it had its origins in the 1940s, and into that of social and cultural history; it has also shifted from a rules-based approach, primarily concerned with legal codes and judicial institutions, to one that focuses on process and explores the complex relationship between law and culture. As the field has expanded, it has divided into sub-…
An authentic and generous adult educator: Peter Jarvis, 1937-2018
Peter Jarvis, who died on 20 November 2018 aged 81, was not only founding co-editor of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, but a theorist of adult education and lifelong learning whose influence has been felt in every continent. Two years ago we were able to publish a special double issue on his work and contribution: although already ill, he was delighted to be presented with a copy, signed by all the contributors, at his 80th birth…
Economic theory, neoliberalism and the interests of educators
Critical commentary on education policy frequently resorts to the term ‘neoliberal’ to describe the influence of economic theory on the way we understand, measure and reform practices and institutions. This influence reaches a wide range of activities funded by governments such as health care, welfare, and public services in general. The appeal of economic theory to policymakers can be readily appreciated. As Edwards (2007) explains, governments …
Higher education, social class and the mobilisation of capitals: Recognising and Playing the Game
Strategies employed by middle-class families to ensure successful educational outcomes for their children have long been the focus of theoretical and empirical analysis in the United Kingdom and beyond. In austerity England, the issue of middle-class social reproduction through higher education increases in saliency, and students' awareness of how to 'play the game' of enhancing their chances to acquire a sought-after graduate position becomes in…
Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity in East Africa
The Maasai and the British 1895–1905 the Origins of an Alliance
During the colonial period, the Maasai were conspicuous for their unwillingness to become involved in, or to co-operate with, colonial rule in Kenya. Between 1895 and 1904, however, the Maasai and the British had entered an informal alliance to further their mutual interests. The Maasai, badly hit by the human and animal plagues of the 1880s and early 1890s, needed time to recover their stock and to reorganize their society. The British, hampered…
Rebellious Youth in Colonial Africa
‘That rebellious youth’ alarmed colonial authorities and elders alike is increasingly an issue for historians. This article surveys the issue as an introduction to the two studies that follow. It considers both the creation of images of youthful defiance as part of a debate about youth conducted largely by their seniors and the real predicaments faced by young people themselves. Concern revolved around the meanings of maturity in a changing world…
Ecology, Migration, and Expansion in East Africa
Journal Article ECOLOGY, MIGRATION, AND EXPANSION IN EAST AFRICA Get access RICHARD WALLER RICHARD WALLER The author is presently Lecturer in History at the University of Malawi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 84, Issue 336, July 1985, Pages 347–370, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097698 Published: 01 July 1985
Working‐class women on an Access course: Risk, opportunity and (re)constructing identities
Framed by discourses of lifelong learning and widening participation, further education Access to University courses attract mature students from a range of social backgrounds. This paper focuses on eight women students who, to varying degrees, share educational and occupational histories and aspirations. We explore their experiences of the Access programme by referring to developing learner and class identities and related femininities. This tra…
Challenging discourses of aspiration: The role of expectations and attainment in access to higher education
Raising the proportion of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds progressing to higher education has been a key policy objective for successive governments in the UK since the late 1990s. Often this has been conceptualised as a problem with their ‘aspirations’, with the solution being seen as the provision of ‘aspiration‐raising’ activities to promote higher education to those thought to have the potential to progress. Recent large‐scale stu…
Tsetse fly in Western Narok, Kenya
This article studies the expansion of tsetse fly in one part of Kenya Maasailand between 1900 and 1950. It follows the lines of investigation first suggested by Ford's work and examines in detail the interaction between changes in four elements in the Mara ecosystem: climate, vegetation, land use and tsetse. Tsetse was able to expand because its habitat expanded and the spread of bush and fly into the grasslands both caused, and was facilitated b…
The African Rank and File: Social Implications of Colonial Military Service in the King's African Rifles, 1902-1964
Clean’ and ‘Dirty’: Cattle Disease and Control Policy in Colonial Kenya, 1900–40
This article traces and contextualizes the development of veterinary policy in Kenya from 1900 to 1940, with particular reference to three diseases: East Coast Fever, bovine pleuro-pneumonia and rinderpest. Disease affected almost every aspect of society and economy in Kenya, but the threat that it posed was constructed and confronted differently by the various constituencies – official, settler and African – that made up the divided pastoral eco…
Witchcraft and Colonial Law in Kenya
Journal Article Witchcraft and Colonial Law in Kenya Get access Richard D. Waller Richard D. Waller Bucknell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 180, Issue 1, August 2003, Pages 241–275, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/180.1.241 Published: 01 August 2003
Pastoral Production in Colonial Kenya: Lessons from the Past
This article examines the troubled course of attempts to modernize and control pastoral production in Kenya over the last hundred years. It begins with an overview of changes in pastoralism to provide context and then gives more detailed consideration to the failure of colonial attempts to manage livestock resources. Finally, it discusses recent developments in relation to the past. It argues that study of pastoralism's past offers valuable lesso…
Success and Impact in Widening Participation Policy: What Works and How Do We Know
Interaction and Identity on the Periphery: The Trans-Mara Maasai
This paper has a double purpose. It follows the contrasting fortunes of three Maasai sections up to the end of the period of their resettlement and adjustment in Trans-Mara; and, at the same time, it explores the interaction between Maasai on the periphery of Maasailand and their neighbors in Western Kenya. In the first instance, events roughly common to all Maasai are examined from three differing sectional perspectives. In the second, the paper…
Shaping the field of lifelong education through three critical debates in the International Journal of Lifelong Education
The editors approached the 40th anniversary of the International Journal of Lifelong Education as an opportunity to consider the field by exploring how a corpus of 1462 articles (the first 40 volumes of the journal) questioned and shaped the field. A subset of advisory board members and the editors gathered in 2021 in groups to analyse major topics. The records of the reading, analyses and discussions of these groups offer a unique snapshot of th…
Parents, partners and peers: Bearing the hidden costs of lifelong learning
This paper examines data from three projects to explore the ‘hidden costs’ of participating in lifelong learning. Whilst other potential risks (financial for instance) are anticipated, those around family and friendship ties are usually not. Adult re-engagement with education can result in unexpected negative consequences for learners’ existing relationships, something addressed in academic literature but rarely in official policy rhetoric. We dr…
Lifelong education, social inequality and the Covid-19 health pandemic
What can lifelong education researchers learn from the COVID-19 pandemic? There are, of course, ‘quick’ lessons: societies, for instance, clearly learn from experience. East Asian societies, and governments, learned from SARS and the devastating effect it had in cities such as Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Beijing in 2003 (Abraham, 2004). Of course there was the general lesson that a new coronavirus should not be taken lightly: no doubt there was als…
Widening participation, social mobility and the role of universities in a globalized world
A university education has long been seen as the gateway to upward social mobility for individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds in countries the world over, and a well-educated working pop
Towards a contextualisation of policing in colonial Kenya
This paper looks at the social and legal context of policing in colonial Kenya before 1950, drawing on a range of archival sources in Britain and Kenya. It considers the methods of policing, its objectives, the difficulties it encountered and the social and political terrain on which it operated, a conflicted terrain shaped by geography, race and the existence of other sources of authority and control. Kenya can be divided into a number of zones …
Adult education and learning: Endorsing its contribution to the 2030 Agenda
At the outset of the world economic crisis in 2009 the representatives of 144 UNESCO Member States met at the Sixth International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VI) held in Brazil, and adopted the Belém Framework for Action (BFA) to guide them ‘in harnessing the power and potential of adult learning and education for a viable future for all’ (art. 6). Moreover, they called upon UNESCO and its satellite structures to review and update th…
A year of Covid-19 pandemic: Exposing the fragility of education and digital in/equalities
March 2021 marked one year since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous editorials reflected on social inequality, a longstanding problem in lifelong education, in light of the pandemic (Waller et al., 2020), and on the role of learning cities and regions to make education systems resilient to the pandemic (Webb et al., 2020). Writing when a third wave of COVID-19 is being experienced in several countries, it is wo…
Global policy agencies and visions for twenty-first century lifelong education
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has recently published a vision for education for the twenty-first century Rethinking Education: Towards a Global Commo
Lifelong education international: Forwards and/or backwards
With this issue, the International Journal of Lifelong Education enters its fortieth year of publication. It was launched, under the editorship of Peter Jarvis and J.E. (Teddy) Thomas, in a different era. We are now embarking on a two-year project to mark the completion of this anniversary, and to launch us into our fifth decade. The project involves looking back and peering forward. It comprises two main elements, the outcomes of which will, we …
Adult education, mental health and mental wellbeing
Engaging or continuing to engage with formal education in adulthood has long been seen as being beneficial to learners in a number of ways (Field, 2009; Schuller, Preston, Hammond, BassettGrundy, & Bynner, 2004). These include the obvious social ones – classes are good ways to meet others with similar interests – and economic benefits including enhanced knowledge, skills general employability are often cited as being important too – the encourage…
Lifelong learning for quality education: Exploring the neglected aspect of sustainable development goal 4
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) adopted by the leaders of the United Nations member states at the 70th session of the UN General assembly in September 2015, set out an agenda for global transformation. These SDGs, known as global goals, build on the strategy set by the millennium development goals (MDGs) to end all forms of poverty and focus even further on inequalities and climate change. In contrast to the MDGs, SDGs have been designed…
Adult Education towards Social and Political Responsibility
Trends in English Adult Education
The Maasai and the British 1895–1905 the Origins of an Alliance
During the colonial period, the Maasai were conspicuous for their unwillingness to become involved in, or to co-operate with, colonial rule in Kenya. Between 1895 and 1904, however, the Maasai and the British had entered an informal alliance to further their mutual interests. The Maasai, badly hit by the human and animal plagues of the 1880s and early 1890s, needed time to recover their stock and to reorganize their society. The British, hampered…
Colonial Rule and the Kamba: Social change in the Kenya Highlands 1889–1939
Journal Article Colonial Rule and the Kamba: social change in the Kenya Highlands 1889–1939 Get access Colonial Rule and the Kamba: social change in the Kenya Highlands 1889–1939, by J. Forbes Munro. Clarendon Press; OUP, 1975. 276pp. 2 plates, 5 maps, bibliography, index. £7.50. RICHARD WALLER RICHARD WALLER PeterhouseCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 75, Issue 300, July 19…
L'homme de lettres en France et en Angleterre (1700-1730)
Richard Waller : The man of letters in France and England (1700-1750). A study of the financial situation of writers in France and, by way of comparison, in England. The different sources of income in France are : publishing, which produced meagre revenues, the theatre which earned slightly more, posts as tutors, and government service (censors, journalism, the Bibliothèque du Roi, teaching, membership of academies) ; by accumulation of several o…
East African Age Organizations
Journal Article EAST AFRICAN AGE ORGANIZATIONS Get access RICHARD WALLER RICHARD WALLER Dr Richard Waller is presently a research fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and is an authority on the social history of the Maasai people of East Africa. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 79, Issue 315, April 1980, Pages 257–260, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097210 Published: 01 Ap…
Interaction and Identity on the Periphery: The Trans-Mara Maasai
This paper has a double purpose. It follows the contrasting fortunes of three Maasai sections up to the end of the period of their resettlement and adjustment in Trans-Mara; and, at the same time, it explores the interaction between Maasai on the periphery of Maasailand and their neighbors in Western Kenya. In the first instance, events roughly common to all Maasai are examined from three differing sectional perspectives. In the second, the paper…
Ecology, Migration, and Expansion in East Africa
Journal Article ECOLOGY, MIGRATION, AND EXPANSION IN EAST AFRICA Get access RICHARD WALLER RICHARD WALLER The author is presently Lecturer in History at the University of Malawi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 84, Issue 336, July 1985, Pages 347–370, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097698 Published: 01 July 1985
The Economic and Social Origins of Mau Mau, 1945–1953
The Economic and Social Origins of Mau Mau, 1945–1953 Get access The Economic and Social Origins of Mau Mau, 1945–1953, by D. W. Throup. James Currey, London, 1987. xvi+304 pp. £25 hardback, £9.95 paperback. ISBN 0 85255 023 5 and0 85255 024 3. Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, 1905–1963, by Tabitha Kanogo. James Currey, London, 1987. xviii+206 pp. £25 hardback, £8.95 paperback. ISBN 0 85255 018 9 and 0 85255 019 7. R. D. WALLER R. D. WALLER Un…
En Marge Du Classicisme: Essays on the French Theatre From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
En Marge Du Classicisme: Essays on the French Theatre From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment." Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 11(1), p. 189
Kenyan Communities in the Age of Imperialism
The Maasai of Matapato: A Study in Rituals of Rebellion
When first published in 1988, this classic study was the first to relate the dynamics of the Maasai age organisation to the tensions within the family. Together, these provide the twin strands of a man's career, opposed ritually and reflecting a fundamental ambivalence in Maasai thought. The analysis is illustrated with extensive case material from the the Matapato, selected for this study as a typical Maasai group
Tsetse fly in Western Narok, Kenya
This article studies the expansion of tsetse fly in one part of Kenya Maasailand between 1900 and 1950. It follows the lines of investigation first suggested by Ford's work and examines in detail the interaction between changes in four elements in the Mara ecosystem: climate, vegetation, land use and tsetse. Tsetse was able to expand because its habitat expanded and the spread of bush and fly into the grasslands both caused, and was facilitated b…
Persistent Pastoralists
The Mau Mau War in Perspective
Journal Article The Mau Mau War in Perspective Get access The Mau Mau War in Perspective, by Frank Furedi. James Currey, London, 1989. xiii + 239 pp. £25.00 hardback, £9.95 paperback. ISBN 0 85255 052 9 and 0 85255 051 0. RICHARD WALLER RICHARD WALLER Bucknell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 91, Issue 363, April 1992, Pages 287–288, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.…
Acceptees & Aliens: Kikuyu Settlement in Maasailand
The Scattering Time: Turkana Responses to Colonial Rule
Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity in East Africa
Mombasa, the Swahili, and the Making of the Mijikenda
Journal Article Mombasa, the Swahili, and the Making of the Mijikenda Get access Mombasa, the Swahili, and the Making of the Mijikenda, by Justin Willis. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993. xiv+231 pp. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 019 820320 9. RICHARD WALLER RICHARD WALLER Bucknell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 369, October 1993, Pages 628–629, https://doi.org/10.1093/ox…
The Elusive Granary: Herder, Farmer and State in Northern Kenya
Being Massai
A History of East Africa, 1592-1902
Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, work, and rural struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961
Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, work, and rural struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938–1961 Get access Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, work, and rural struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938–1961, by Allen Isaacman. James Currey Publishers, 1996. xii+272 pp. £35.00 hardback. £14.95 paperback. ISBN 0-85255-671-3 and 0-85255-621-7. Cotton, Colonialism, and Social History in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Allen Isaacman & Richard R…
Pastoralism in Africa: Origins and Development Ecology
Pastoralism in Africa: Origins and Development Ecology Andrew B. Smith. London: Hurst & Co., 1992
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