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MDDE 613: Adult Education and Lifelong Learning Report a Broken Link

Unit 1 Readings

Reischmann, J. (2005). Andragogy. In L. English (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Adult Education (pp.58-63). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (pdf-pub)
Draper, J. (2001). The metamorphoses of andragogy. In D. H. Poonwassie, & A. Poonwassie, (Eds.), Fundamentals of Adult Education: Issues and practices for lifelong learning (pp. 14-30). Toronto: Thompson Publishers.
Stewart, D. (1987). What adult education means: Discovering and rediscovering the concept of andragogy. In D. Stewart, Adult learning in America: Eduard Lindeman and his agenda for lifelong education, (pp. 103-112). Malabar, Florida: Robert Krieger Publishing. (pdf-fd)
Selman, G., Selman, M., Cooke, M., & Dampier, P. (1998). Participation, participants and providers. In The Foundations of Adult Education in Canada, (pp. 117-149). Thompson. (pdf-fd)

Unit 2 Readings

Cranton, P. (2013). Adult learning theory. In  T. Nesbit,  S. Brigham, & N. Taber (Eds.), Building on critical traditions: Adult education and learning in Canada (pp. 95-106). Toronto: Thompson Publishers. (pdf-pub)
Edwards, R. (2005). Theory. In L. English (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Adult Education (pp. 615-618). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (pdf-pub)
Nesbit, T., Leach, L., & Foley, G. (2004). Teaching adults. In G. Foley, (Ed.), Dimensions of adult learning: Adult education and training in a global era (pp. 74-95). Crows Nest NSW: Allen and Unwin.
Plumb, D., & Welton, M. (2001). Theory building in adult education: questioning our grasp of the obvious. In D. H. Poonwassie, & A. Poonwassie, (Eds.), Fundamentals of Adult Education: Issues and practices for lifelong learning (pp. 63-75). Toronto: Thompson Publishers. (pdf-fd)
Pratt, D. (2005). Teaching. In L. English, (Ed.) International Encyclopedia of Adult Education (pp.610-615). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (pdf-pub)
Haave, N. (2014). Six questions that will bring your teaching philosophy into focus. Faculty Focus, Higher Ed Teaching Strategies from Magna Publications. (Useful for mission statement exercise.)

Unit 3 Readings

Brookfield, S. (1993). Self-directed learning: Political clarity, and the critical practice of adult education. Adult Education Quarterly 43(4), 227-242.
Hiemstra, R. (1994). Self-directed learning. In T. Husen & T. N. Postlethwaite (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd ed. Oxford; Pergamon Press.
Leach, L. (2005). Self-directed learning. In L. English (Ed.) International Encyclopedia of Adult Education (pp. 565-569). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (pdf-fd)
Livingstone, D. (Nov/Dec. 1999). Exploring the icebergs of adult learning: Findings of the first Canadian survey of informal learning activities. The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 13/2, 49.
Pearson, E. & Podeschi, R. (1999). Humanism and individualism: Maslow and his critics. In Adult Education Quarterly 50(1), 41-55.

Unit 4 Readings

Guile, D., & Young, M. (1998). Apprenticeship as a conceptual basis for a social theory of learning. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 50(2), 173-192. (pdf)
Hall, B. (2006). Social movement learning: Theorizing a Canadian tradition. In T. Fenwick, T. Nesbit, & B. Spencer (Eds.), Contexts of adult education: Canadian perspectives (pp. 230-238). Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishers. (pdf-fd)
Jenlink, P., & Jenlink, K. (2012). Examining leadership as public pedagogy for social justice. Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities.
O'Byrne, I. (2017). Wakefulness and digitally engaged publics: The scholary and the digital. Hybrid Pedagogy.
Osei-Kofi, N. (2013). Higher education, social justice, and public pedagogy. Commission for Social Justice Educators Blog.
Wenger, E. (1998). Introduction: A social theory of learning. In E. Wenger, Communities of practice: Learning, meaning and identity (pp. 3-17). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (pdf)

Unit 5 Readings

Butterwick, S. (2014). Class and poverty matters:  The role of adult education in reproduction and resistance.  In T. Nesbit, S. Brigham, N. Taber & T. Gibb (Eds.),  Building on critical traditions: Adult education and learning in Canada, (pp.129-138).  Toronto: Thompson. (pdf-pub)
Careless, E. (2015). Social media for social justice in adult education: A critical theoretical framework. Journal of Teaching and Learning, 10(1), 13-26.
Clark, C., & Wilson, A. (1991). Context and rationality in Mezirow’s theory of transformative learning. Adult Education Quarterly, 41(2), 75-91.
Kelly, J. (2006). Building black identity and community. In T. Fenwick, T. Nesbit, & B. Spencer (Eds.), Contexts of adult education: Canadian perspectives (pp. 49-57). Thompson Educational Publishing.
Grace, A. (2006). Critical adult education: Engaging the social in theory and practice. In T. Fenwick, T. Nesbit, & B. Spencer (Eds.), Contexts of adult education: Canadian perspectives (pp. 128-140). Thompson Educational Publishing. (pdf-pub)
Scott, S. (2006). A way of seeing: Transformation for a new century. In T. Fenwick, T. Nesbit, & B. Spencer (Eds.), Contexts of adult education: Canadian perspectives (pp. 154-161). Thompson Educational Publishing. (pdf-pub)
Tabor, N., & Gouthro, P. (2006). Women and adult education in Canadian society. In T. Fenwick, T. Nesbit, & B. Spencer (Eds.), Contexts of adult education: Canadian perspectives (pp. 58-67). Thompson Educational Publishing. (pdf-pub)

Unit 6 Readings

The Hamburg declaration on Adult Learning (1997). Adult Education. The agenda for the future. Fifth international (UNESCO) conference on adult education (14-18 July). London.
Adult Learning in Scotland : A Statement of Ambition. Education Scotland. Foghalm Alba.
Collins, M., (1998).   Critical returns: From andragogy to lifelong education. Learning for Life:  Canadian Readings in Adult Education, 1. Thompson Educational Publishing, Inc. (pdf-fd)
Nesbit, T., Brigham, S., Taber, N., & Gibb, T. (2013). The continued imperative of Canadian adult education and learning. In T. Nesbit, S. Brigham, N. Taber, & T. Gibb (Eds.), Building on critical traditions: Adult education and learning in Canada (pp. 355-360). Thompson. (pdf-pub)
Zepke, N. (2015). Purposes, pedagogies and practices in lifewide adult education in New Zealand: A preview. International Review Of Education / Internationale Zeitschrift Für Erziehungswissenschaft, 61(1), 99-113.