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Adult Education And Publishing Canadian Fiction In A Global Context: A Foucauldian Analysis, Patricia A. Gouthro, Susan M. Holloway
Adult Education And Publishing Canadian Fiction In A Global Context: A Foucauldian Analysis, Patricia A. Gouthro, Susan M. Holloway
Education Publications
This paper draws upon findings from a research study on the relationship between fiction, citizenship, and lifelong learning. It includes interviews with authors from several genres, publishing houses, and arts councils. This paper explores many of the ambivalent outcomes of the shifting power elements in publishing that can simultaneously benefit and disadvantage the publication of a national body of fiction. Although focused on the Canadian context, fiction writers and publishers around the globe face similar challenges. Using a Foucauldian analysis, it considers the importance of fiction and adult learning in shaping discourses of citizenship and critical social learning.
Conversations About Education: Professional Development Through A Multi-Epistemic Lens, Roland Karen, Julia Colella, Blessing Igbokwe
Conversations About Education: Professional Development Through A Multi-Epistemic Lens, Roland Karen, Julia Colella, Blessing Igbokwe
Education Publications
This study involves the program evaluation of the Conversations About Education pilot, developed as a community collaboration to offer professional development involving participants from a Faculty of Education, local school partners, and community organizations offering programming to Newcomers to Canada. The program sought to provide a collective forum where educational issues could be examined and discussed through a multi-epistemic lens. During the program events participants were encouraged to share their personal perspectives of the classroom experience, and together discuss the implications that lived/life experience has on confronting bias in teaching. The evaluation of the pilot program employed a qualitative approach …
Creating A Knowledge Community: Embedded Professional Practice, Karen Roland
Creating A Knowledge Community: Embedded Professional Practice, Karen Roland
Education Publications
The Faculty of Education at a Southwestern Ontario, Canadian University appointed an Experiential Learning Specialist (ELS) as a member of the Faculty in 2007. The Experiential Learning Specialist acts as an impartial resource for all members of the educational community (teacher candidates, faculty, staff, school partners), by providing counselling, collaboration and mediation to promote social justice and equity in teacher education. In this regard, the Experiential Learning Specialist has developed professional resources, provided confidential counselling, guided conflict resolution through mediation processes, and endeavoured to build a knowledge community. The continued focus has been to contribute to the development and implementation, …
Visual Literacies And Multiliteracies: An Ecology Arts-Based Pedagogical Model., Susan M. Holloway
Visual Literacies And Multiliteracies: An Ecology Arts-Based Pedagogical Model., Susan M. Holloway
Education Publications
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Women’S Experiences In Learning To Write Fiction: Exploring Gendered Engagement In Communities Of Practice, Susan M. Holloway, Patricia A. Gouthro, Erin J. Careless
Women’S Experiences In Learning To Write Fiction: Exploring Gendered Engagement In Communities Of Practice, Susan M. Holloway, Patricia A. Gouthro, Erin J. Careless
Education Publications
This paper examines how gender impacts upon the participation women fiction authors in different communities of practice. While some communities of practice may provide valuable supports, in other instances, women may be systemically marginalized. The development of social media is also creating new opportunities and challenges for participation in virtual communities of practice for women writers.
Conferences As Lifelong Learning Sites: Engaging With Different Communities Of Practice, Patricia A. Gouthro, Susan M. Holloway
Conferences As Lifelong Learning Sites: Engaging With Different Communities Of Practice, Patricia A. Gouthro, Susan M. Holloway
Education Publications
Conferences can be understood as important lifelong learning sites for adults engaged in a variety of pursuits. As conferences often draw together people to focus on a particular topic, whether it relates to workplace learning, leisure, or health, they may be seen as avenues for fostering what Wenger (1998) terms as “communities of practice”. This paper explores how lifelong learning at conferences is linked to the members of a community of practice, the organization of the event, and the effects of new technologies.