Contexts of Adult Education
Canadian Perspectives

The editors:

• Tara Fenwick, University of Alberta
• Tom Nesbit, Simon Fraser University
• Bruce Spencer, Athabasca University
  

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How can one make sense of such a complex endeavour as the practice of adult education? The editors of this volume have adopted the notion of contexts. The contexts of adult education include:

• the historical contexts that shape the practice of adult educators
• the philosophical contexts that underpin their activities
• the socioeconomic contexts by which practitioners are informed
• the community contexts in which they are located and
• the practice contexts that their activities reveal.

The contributors to this volume are leading researchers and practitioners in Canada from coast to coast. The editors' goal has been to provide a critically informed overview of adult education today.

This volume is timed to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education/l’Association Canadienne pour l’Étude de l’Éducation des Adultes [CASAE/ACÉÉA].

The Editors:

• Tara Fenwick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies
  at the University of Alberta.
• Tom Nesbit is Associate Dean of Continuing Studies (Programs) at Simon Fraser University.
• Bruce Spencer is a Professor in the Centre for Work and Community Studies at Athabasca University.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Tom Nesbit

Part 1. Contexts in Transition

• 1. Intimations of a Just Learning Society: From the United Farmers of Alberta to Henson's Provincial Plan in Nova Scotia, Michael R. Welton
• 2. Histories of Aboriginal Adult Education in Canada, Wendy E.Burton and Gwen Point
• 3. Building Black Identity and Community, Jennifer Kelly
• 4. Women and Adult Education in Canadian Society, Nancy Taber and Patricia A.Gouthro
• 5. Adult Citizenship Education: An Overview of the Field, Daniel Schugurensky
• 6. Cross-Cultural Teaching and Research in Adult Education, Susan M. Brigham and
  Patricia A.Gouthro

Part 2. Philosophical and Critical Contexts

• 7. Challenging Social Philosophobia, Elizabeth A. Lange
• 8. Postfoundationalism in Adult Education, Leona M. English
• 9. The Critical Legacy: Adult Education Against the Claims of Capital, Michael Collins
• 10. Critical Adult Education: Engaging the Social in Theory and Practice, André P. Grace
• 11. Frameworks for Synthesis of the Field of Adult Learning Theory, Peter Sawchuk
• 12. A Way of Seeing: Transformation for a New Century, Sue M. Scott

Part 3. Contexts of Work and Economy

• 13. Human Capital and the Knowledge Economy, Paul Bouchard
• 14. The Political Economy of Adult Learning in Canada, Kjell Rubenson and Judith Walker
• 15. Work, Learning and Adult Education in Canada, Tara J. Fenwick
• 16. Adult Education in the Changing Context of Immigration: New Challenges in a New Era, Shibao Guo
• 17. Labour Education, Bruce Spencer and Jeffery Taylor
• 18. Adult Education and Health: Will Words Get in the Way?, Donna M. Chovanec and
  Karen M. Foss

Part 4. Contexts of Community and Social Movements

• 19. Social Movement Learning: Theorizing a Canadian Tradition, Budd L. Hall
• 20. Popular Education and Canadian Engagements with Social Movement Praxis in the South, Dip Kapoor
• 21. Environmental Adult Education in Canada, Darlene E. Clover
• 22. Towards Celebration through Education: Queer Canadian Adult Education, John P. Egan and Anthony J. Flavell
• 23. Mothers as Popular Educators: Love Lives in Social Act, Dorothy A. Lander
• 24. Adult Education and the Arts, Shauna Butterwick and Jane Dawson

Part 5. Contexts of Practice

• 25. Training of Adult Educators in Quebec, Mohamed Hrimech and Nicole A. Tremblay
• 26. Not Waving but Drowning: Canadian University Extension for Social Change Revisited, Denis J. Haughey
• 27. Distance Education Online: A Forum for Adult Education?, Dianne Conrad and
  Bruce Spencer
• 28. Coming to Terms with Prior Learning Assessment, Geoff Peruniak and Rick Powell
• 29. Towards a Canadian Research Culture in Adult Literacy Learning, Maurice Taylor and Adrian Blunt
• 30. What Does it Mean to be a Professional? The Challenges of Professionalization for Adult Literacy and Basic Education, B. Allan Quigley
• 31. Adult Education without Borders, Shahrzad Mojab

Name Index / Subject Index

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