Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies: Recent submissions
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Robo Ed: Reimaging Adult Education
(1992) -
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 ... -
Vaclav Havel, Post-Modernism, and Modernity: The Implications for Adult Education in the West
(University of Saskatchewan., 1992) -
The Imaginary Institution of Adult Education: A Reassessment of the Field's Collective Identity
(University of Alberta, 1995) -
Research Paradigms in Adult Education: A Dialectical Account
(University of Ottawa., 1993) -
Assuming the Master's Mantle: The Pedagogue as "Subject Presumed to Know."
(University of Quebec at Montreal, 1995) -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Decentring the "Self" in Adult Education Practice
(University of South Florida, 1996) -
Born of Different Visions: Labour Education in Canada and the US
(learned societies, 1995) -
The Truth Is That Which Runs After the Truth
(Annual Standing Conference on University Teaching & Research in the Education of Adults, 2002) -
The Teaching Imaginary: Collective Identity in a Post-Prefixed Age
(Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002)Every society up to now has attempted to give an answer to a few fundamental questions: Who are we as a collectivity? What are we for one another? Where and in what are we? What do we want; what do we desire; what are ... -
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 ... -
The Case of Alberta Education: Retooling Through Deschooling
(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 ... -
Teaching & Research: Learning's Twin Poles
(2nd Canadian Summit on the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, 2006)One reason I wanted to be here today is because I have a nagging concern about the drive to incorporate research more explicitly into teaching. It’s reminiscent of the drive for "quality" education in schools, which ... -
Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy: Or Teaching/Research/Writing as a Living Practice
(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, ... -
Pedagogy, Practice, and Psychoanalysis
(American Educational Research Conference Association, 2000) -
Pedagogical Interventions
(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 ... -
How a FIRM (Flexibility, Innovation, Robustness, and Maturity)Argument for FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Can Displace FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt)
(In the Proceedings of the Open Source Software for Europe Conference, 2005)