Browsing Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences by Author "Briton, Derek"
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Assuming the Master's Mantle: The Pedagogue as "Subject Presumed to Know."
Briton, Derek (University of Quebec at Montreal, 1995) -
Born of Different Visions: Labour Education in Canada and the US
Briton, Derek; Spencer, Bruce (learned societies, 1995) -
The Case of Alberta Education: Retooling Through Deschooling
Kachur, Jerrold L.; Briton, Derek (1998)Until the recent election of Mike Harris’s conservatives in Ontario, the siege mentality of economic crisis in Canada was nowhere more apparent than in Alberta. Haunted by the costly limitations of diversification ... -
The Commodification of Adult Education
Briton, Derek; Plumb, Donovan (Penn State University, 1993)Abstract: This paper discusses the consequences of cultural commodification for emancipatory adult education, arguing that while cultural commodification may generate a greater demand for adult education such market-driven ... -
Computer Networks and Labour Education
Taylor, Jeff; Briton, Derek (Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, Learned Societies, 1997) -
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 Decentred Subject: Pedagogical Implications
Briton, Derek (An Interdisciplinary Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1996)What is unique about the I hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual I is what differs ... -
Decentring the "Self" in Adult Education Practice
Briton, Derek (University of South Florida, 1996) -
Emancipation Through the Acquisition of Basic Skills: A Curriculum-Planning Process for Marginalized Adults
Briton, Derek; Collett, Dave; Cooney, Donna; Deane, Art; Scott, Sue (University of Saskatchewan, 1992)Abstract: This paper discusses the development of a curriculum planningprocess that can be employed with marginalized adult-learners. The model incorporates a range of basic "skills" identified by marginalized adults ... -
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 ... -
From Learning to Credential
Spencer, Bruce; Briton, Derek; Gereluk, Winston (Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, 1999) -
How a FIRM (Flexibility, Innovation, Robustness, and Maturity)Argument for FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Can Displace FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt)
Briton, Derek (In the Proceedings of the Open Source Software for Europe Conference, 2005) -
The Imaginary Institution of Adult Education: A Reassessment of the Field's Collective Identity
Briton, Derek (University of Alberta, 1995) -
Lacanian Perspectives on Knowledge, Truth, Method, Rigor,
Briton, Derek (American Educational Research Conference Association., 2002) -
Learning the Subject of Desire
Briton, Derek (Routledge, 1997) -
The Modern Practice of Adult Education: A Postmodern Critique
Briton, Derek (Albany State University of New York Press, 1996) -
Online Workers' Education
Briton, Derek; Taylor, Jeff (International Journal of Instructional Media, 2001)This paper recounts the preliminary findings of a research project designed to explore the relevance of computer-mediated communication technologies for the collective and social purposes that are an integral part of ... -
Pedagogical Interventions
Carson, Terry; Briton, Derek (CSSE, Learned Societies, 1997)Conventionally, teacher education programs are set around the familiar boundaries of fixed courses—curriculum and instruction, psychology, foundations, practicum, and so forth. These elements persist for reasons of ... -
Pedagogy, Practice, and Psychoanalysis
Briton, Derek (American Educational Research Conference Association, 2000) -
Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy: Or Teaching/Research/Writing as a Living Practice
Briton, Derek (New York: Peter Lang, 1997)The veil of representation actually conceals nothing; there is nothing behind representation. Yet the fact that representation seems to hide, to put an arbored screen of signifiers in front of something hidden beneath, ...