Description

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

• Historical contexts that shape the practice of adult educators
• Philosophical contexts that underpin their activities
• Socio-economic contexts by which practitioners are informed
• Community contexts in which they are located
• Practice contexts that their activities reveal

Table of Contents

1. Contexts in Transition

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

2. Philosophical and Critical Contexts

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

3. Contexts of Work and Economy

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

4.Contexts of Community and Social Movements

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

5. Contexts of Practice

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