Author

Lesley Powell

Observed name: Powell, Lesley

Institution: University of Cape Town

Observed institutions: University of Nottingham, University of Cape Town, Nelson Mandela University

ORCID: 0000-0003-3886-2872

Observed ORCID: 0000-0003-3886-2872

OpenAlex ID: A5030112616

Skills for sustainable development: Transforming vocational education and training beyond 2015

2016 · Simon McGrath, Lesley Powell · International Journal of Educational Development · 192

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Reimagining the purpose of VET – Expanding the capability to aspire in South African Further Education and Training students

2012 · Lesley Powell · International Journal of Educational Development · 152

Skills for Human Development

2019 · Lesley Powell, Simon McGrath · Routledge eBooks · 95

New VET theories for new times: the critical capabilities approach to vocational education and training and its potential for theorising a transformed and transformational VET

2020 · Simon McGrath, Lesley Powell, et al. · Journal of Vocational Education and Training · 89

7 Exploring the Value of the Capability Approach for Vocational Education and Training Evaluation: Reflections from South Africa

2014 · Lesley Powell, Simon McGrath · Brill | Nijhoff eBooks · 35

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Exploring the Value of the Capability Approach for Vocational Education and Training Evaluation: Reflections from South Africa

2014 · Lesley Powell, Simon McGrath · International development policy/Revue internationale de politique de développement · 30

Vocational Education and Graduate Struggles in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: A Freirean Approach

2024 · Ezekiel Majola, Lesley Powell, et al. · Education as Change · 26

Capability or Employability: Orientating VET Toward “Real Work”

2019 · Lesley Powell, Simon McGrath · Springer eBooks · 23

The Heyneman/Loxley effect: three decades of debate

2015 · Simon McGrath, Lesley Powell · Routledge eBooks · 18

Planning for freedom: From human capital to human capabilities

2021 · Lesley Powell · Journal of Education · 15

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Vocational education and training for human development

2015 · Simon McGrath, Lesley Powell · 14

Capability or Employability: Orientating VET Toward “Real Work”

2018 · Lesley Powell, Simon McGrath · Springer eBooks · 8

A critical assessment of research on South African further education and training colleges

2013 · Lesley Powell · Southern African review of education with Education with production · 8

Exploring the value of the sociological Careership Theory in the South African TVET context

2022 · Lucky Maluleke, Lesley Powell, et al. · Journal of vocational, adult and continuing education and training · 7

Reframing student performance in South African technical and vocational education and training colleges: A realist capability approach

2025 · Lesley Powell, Francis Muronda, et al. · Journal of vocational, adult and continuing education and training · 5

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Learning for Livelihoods in the Global South

2024 · Lesley Powell, Adam Cooper, et al. · Routledge eBooks · 4

Youth Career Decision-making: The Influence of Horizon for Action and Navigational Capacity

2023 · Lucky Maluleke, Lesley Powell · Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks · 2

Introduction

2019 · Lesley Powell, Simon McGrath · Routledge eBooks · 2

Youth, skills, and informal sectors in the Global South

2024 · Adam Cooper, Trent Brown, et al. · Routledge eBooks · 1

A typology of informal sector workers – heterogeneity and the complexity of skills development responses

2024 · Lesley Powell, Simon McGrath · Routledge eBooks

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Operationalising the realist-capability model