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(1985) Women Teachers in Edmonton Public Schools, 1940-1950.
(1985)The Second World War and its aftermath did not create greater opportunities for women workers, although more women worked, and more married women worked, at the end of the decade than at the beginning. The proportion of ... -
Emancipation Through the Acquisition of Basic Skills: A Curriculum-Planning Process for Marginalized Adults
(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 ... -
Vaclav Havel, Post-Modernism, and Modernity: The Implications for Adult Education in the West
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Robo Ed: Reimaging Adult Education
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(1993). A Feminist/Postmodernist Methodology for Educational Research.
(1993)A paper for presentation to the Education Graduate Students' Association, University of Alberta. -
The Commodification of Adult Education
(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 ... -
Research Paradigms in Adult Education: A Dialectical Account
(University of Ottawa., 1993) -
The End of Adult Education? The Formalization of Nonformal University Extension and Union Education.
(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 ... -
(1995). The Sexually Specific Subject, Regimes of Truth, and the Construction of the Leader and of Leadership
(1995)Paper presented at the Annual meeting of The Learned Societies, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Lacanian Indirection in Social Theory: Art, Ethics and Radical Democracy. Montreal, Canada. 1995. -
Born of Different Visions: Labour Education in Canada and the US
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Assuming the Master's Mantle: The Pedagogue as "Subject Presumed to Know."
(University of Quebec at Montreal, 1995) -
The Imaginary Institution of Adult Education: A Reassessment of the Field's Collective Identity
(University of Alberta, 1995) -
Erinnerung, Retrait, Absolute Reflection: Hegel and Derrida
(The Owl of Minerva, 1995)In this essay I show that Jacques Derrida not only mistakenly reads the Hegelian text in terms of reflection, but that his own way of thinking could be characterized from a Hegelian perspective as itself reflective. For ... -
The Decentred Subject: Pedagogical Implications
(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
(University of South Florida, 1996) -
The Modern Practice of Adult Education: A Postmodern Critique
(Albany State University of New York Press, 1996) -
Subjectivity and the Labour Process: A Case Study in the Food and Beverage Industry
(Work, Employment, and Society, 1996)This is what happens when an aspiring sociologist takes a job as a bartender.