Description

Learning for Life: Canadian Readings in Adult Education is a comprehensive guide to Canadian adult education today. It ranges across all of the key foundational issues and is structured to provide chapters on all of the important themes. Students of adult education will find that this collection is a valuable source for college, university, or post-graduate study.

General readers, and practitioners in the field, will want this book as a useful reference and guide to Canadian adult education theory and practice. The chapters, which have been specially written for this collection, are contributed by members of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education.

Table of Contents

Section 1 - Context and Aims:

• A. Historical and Current Contexts - Gordon Selman
• The "Great Tradition" in Canadian adult education: The imaginative training for Citizenship - Mike Welton
• The struggle of memory against forgetting: Constructing a history for practitioners - Susan May
• Issues for adult educators - Claudie Solar
• Trends in adult education - Marie-Terese Morin
• Shift of paradigm: Impact on adult education
• B. Aims of Adult Education - Mike Collins
• From andragogy to lifelong learning as emancipatory pedagogy - Sue Scott
• Philosophy in action - Andre Grace
• Critical adult education in changing times

Section 2 - Purposes

• A. Adult Education for Economy - Paul Bouchard
• Training and work: Some myths about human capital - Tara Fenwick
• The "learning organization" project - Darcy Martin
• Perspectives on training - Bruce Spencer
• Workers' education for the twenty-first century
• B. Adult Education for Transformation — Patricia Cranton
• Transformative learning: Individual growth and development through critical reflection - Howard Davidson
• Risky business: Some notes on the transformation of adult education in prisons - Darlene Clover
• Environmental thought and adult education in Canada - Dennis Haughy
• From passion to passivity: The decline of university extension for social change
• C. Adult Education for Diversity - Joyce Stalker
• Women in the history of adult education: Misogynist responses to their participation - Angela Miles
• Adult education, feminism and the women's movement - Dorothy MacKercher
• Senior Learners: Optimizing the learning community - Marie Gillen
• The spiritual aspects of adult education - Barbara Burnaby
• English as a second language for adult immigrants

Section 3 - Challenges and Future Visions

• A. Current Challenges — Donna Chovanec
• Self-directing learning: Highlighting the contradiction - Geoff Peruniak
• Dimensions of competence and implications for competence-based learning - Alan Thomas
• The tolerable contradictions of prior learning assessment - Bruce Spencer
• Distance education and the virtual classroom
• B. Future Visions — Alan Thomas
• The education of adults and the future - Mike Welton
• Education for a civilized society