Browsing by Author "Spencer, Bruce"
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Born of Different Visions: Labour Education in Canada and the US
Briton, Derek; Spencer, Bruce (learned societies, 1995) -
Canadian adult education and work and learning research
Spencer, Bruce (2011-12-15)Canadian Adult Education and Work and Learning Research The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the contributions to Canadian work and learning research from a review of the Canadian Association for the Study of ... -
Crediting Adult Learning
Spencer, Bruce; Briton, Derek; Gereluk, Winston (Conference of the Adult Education Research, 2000)This paper reports on the uncertainties and dilemmas experienced by three researchers as they continue to explore how informal and non-formal union-sponsored learning can be translated into college and university credits. -
The End of Adult Education? The Formalization of Nonformal University Extension and Union Education.
Spencer, Bruce; Briton, Derek (Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre, 1994)Abstract: This paper examines the circumstances that precipitated a shift from liberal, social purpose to vocational adult education in the UK. To the voices of those in the UK who warn of the potentially dire social ... -
Factors Affecting the Development and Use of Learning Objects
Moisey, Susan D.; Ally, Mohamed; Spencer, Bruce (The American Journal of Distance Education, 2006)This study explored barriers and facilitating factors affecting the development and use of learning objects in developing instructional materials and their use in supporting individualized learning. Over a two-month ... -
From Learning to Credential
Spencer, Bruce; Briton, Derek; Gereluk, Winston (Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, 1999) -
Have We Got an Adult Education Model for PLAR? Paper presentation at the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASE) Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, May 31 - June 3, 2008
Spencer, Bruce (2008-12-16)Introduction and problem Having recently reviewed the edited collection by Per Anderson and Judy Harris Re-theorising the Recognition of Prior Learning (2006, Leicester, UK: NIACE) I was left wondering what specifically ... -
Labour Education as Adult Education: Linking the CASAE Experience as Theory and Practice
Spencer, Bruce (2010-07-14)Labour Education as Adult Education: Linking the CASAE Experience as Theory and Practice It has been suggested that over the next eighteen months CASAE members review the 30 years of CASAE existence and as part of that ... -
Making Inequality Visible in Management Education, the Academy and the Global Workplace
Spencer, Bruce (2013-07-09)Neoliberalism The neoliberal argument is essentially an economic and political philosophy advocating free markets, deregulation, privatization of public assets, more unencumbered free trade, and less government “interference” ... -
The Primordial Link: HRM and Workplace Learning
Spencer, Bruce (2010-06-23)The link between human resource management (HRM) and workplace learning is more often as not ignored if not assumed in the work and learning and adult education literature. The purpose of this paper is to critically examine ... -
Questioning Favoured Truths of Work and Learning Research
Spencer, Bruce; Sawchuk, Peter; Slade, Bonnie (2009-07-15)Questioning Favoured Truths of Work and Learning Research Peter Sawchuk, Bonnie Slade and Bruce Spencer This paper seeks to open a discussion about some of the assumptions that underpin policy and research on work and ... -
Representing Race in the Public Sphere – Contrasting the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) with research presented via Edmonton Public Library Theatre
Spencer, Bruce (British Sociological Society Annual Conference, in Leeds University, UK, April 23-25, 2014, 2014-03-11)The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which “race” or ethnicity has been, and can be, represented in Canada and to make a number of other observations that challenge the “Central/Eastern” representation of ... -
Work, Learning, Inequality and the Academy
Spencer, Bruce (2012-11-15)This paper will look at the connections between work, learning and inequality and apply these understandings to the academy as a worksite. (Theorizing from the literature) Introduction The connection between “work and ...