The Quest for a Better Life in a Better World: The Role of Adult Education in Advancing Inclusion of SMGV Learners and Citizens

This paper investigates the space of SMGV (sexual minority and gender variant) learners in lifelong learning and constituent adult education from transnational perspectives. It discusses the ongoing fiction of adult education as globally inclusive social education. It highlights the construction of a limited social as adult education is taken up in exclusionary contexts where interest groups frequently marginalize sexual orientation and gender identity as power relationships

Taking it to practice: Building a critical postmodern theory of adult learning community.

This paper considers research themes important to contemporary Canadian federal HRD (human resource development) policy, research, and experimentation. It takes up security, work, and learning concerns affecting today\u27s citizen workers and learners and develops aspects of a critical postmodern theory of adult learning community

“Transformational Ministry” and “Reparative Therapy:” Transformative Learning Gone Awry

This essay interrogates how “reparative therapy” and “transformational ministry” debase queer. It takes up Cornell West’s notion of radical pedagogy to explore possibilities for a politics and pedagogy conducive to radical, democratic transformative learning. It provides an overview of my cultural work to advocate for queer persons

Alberta Bounded: Comprehensive Sexual Health Education, Parentism, and Gaps in Provincial Legislation and Educational Policy

This article makes a case for mandating comprehensive sexual health education (CSHE) for all students in Canadian schooling, with a focus on Grades 7 to 12. Using Alberta as an example, it examines the degree to which legislation and educational policy enable CSHE, with particular attention to sexual and gender minority (SGM) students. The article conceptualizes and interrogates parentism as a rightist politico-religious viewpoint harmful to high school students needing to build sexual knowledge and sexual agency. It concludes by calling on legislators, school districts, and faculties of education to act to enable CSHE for all students, including SGM students

Feminist Pedagogies and Graduate Adult and Higher Education for Women Students: Matters of Connection and Possibility

This essay examines the disconnection between the homeplace and the university in graduate education for women students. It explores the ways that positional models of feminist pedagogies can be used to develop more inclusive and transformative forms of graduate education

Arts on the Ground: Camp fYrefly as an LGBTTQ&A Arts-Informed, Community-Based Education Project

This paper investigates the arts-informed, social-learning-for-leadership model used in an annual summer camp to help LGBTTQ&A youth and young adults develop a resilient mindset to assist them to survive and thrive

Feminist Pedagogies and Graduate Adult and Higher Education for Women Students: Matters of Connection and Possibility

This essay examines the disconnection between the homeplace and the university in graduate education for women students. It explores the ways that positional models of feminist pedagogies can be used to develop more inclusive and transformative forms of graduate education

Using Queer Knowledges to Build Inclusionary Pedagogy in Adult Education

This paper turns to queer history, theory, and studies to develop themes useful to adult educators who wish to build alternative pedagogies that explore issues of difference, inclusion, transgressive politics, knowledge production, and the inextricable link between culture and power

Adult Education as Social Education Revisited: The Contribution of John Ohliger

In this paperwe turn to the scholarship and grassroots educational, social, and cultural work of John Ohliger to suggest that his politics of adult education provide useful insights for revitalizing adult education in neoliberal times when lifelong learning is advanced as the more desirable commodity

Undergraduate Adult Education in the Contemporary Neoliberal University

In contemporary times, undergraduate adult education programs have to respond to changing student profiles and needs, institutional requirements, marketplace and workplace demands, and emerging technologies. Students in these programs tend to be non-traditional learners who are usually older and employed. They come with an array of prior learning experiences in life, work, and community contexts. These motivated learners have diverse reasons for wanting to engage in academic studies in adult education: They require knowledge of adult education to become trainers in business and industry; they have been educators, but they need to know what’s new to enhance and update their everyday pedagogical practices; they seek a university credential to ensure a new future; they need new learning for job transitions; they need to learn new modes of assessment; they want to work with industry partners to write curricula. This list of reasons is far from exhaustive. Considering the kinds of non-traditional students seeking a Bachelor of Education in Adult Education today, admission requirements need to be more in tune with what they bring to the learning table. For example, prior learning assessment that recognizes significant experiential learning could be a stronger criterion in the admissions process. In this perspective piece, we examine the current learning milieu in the neoliberal university and some matters affecting student participation in undergraduate adult education.À l’époque contemporaine, les programmes de premier cycle d’éducation des adultes doivent s’adapter à l’évolution des profils et des besoins des étudiants, des exigences institutionnelles, des demandes du marché du travail et des milieux de travail, et des nouvelles technologies. Les étudiants inscrits à ces programmes tendent à être des apprenants non-traditionnels qui sont souvent plus âgés et salariés. Ils arrivent avec toute une gamme d’expériences d’apprentissage dans la vie, au travail et dans la communauté. Les raisons qui poussent ces apprenants motivés à entreprendre des études académiques sont diverses : il leur faut les connaissances fournies par les programme d’éducation des adultes pour devenir formateurs dans le monde des affaires ou en industrie; ils ont été enseignants mais doivent se mettre à jour de sorte à améliorer et moderniser leur pratiques pédagogiques; ils désirent une accréditation universitaire pour s’assurer un nouvel avenir; ils ont besoin de nouvelles connaissances pour changer d’emploi; ils doivent apprendre de nouvelles formes d’évaluation; ils veulent travailler avec des partenaires du secteur pour créer du matériel pédagogique. Cette liste est loin d’être exhaustive. Compte tenu du genre d’étudiants non-traditionnels qui s’inscrivent au Baccalauréat en Éducation en éducation des adultes, les exigences d’admission doivent être davantage en phase avec les compétences et les expériences avec lesquelles ils arrivent à l’université. Par exemple, une évaluation des connaissances acquises qui tiendrait compte de l’apprentissage par l’expérience pourrait constituer un critère de choix plus important pendant le processus d’admission. Dans cet article d’opinion, nous nous penchons sur le milieu actuel de l’apprentissage dans le monde universitaire néolibéral et sur quelques enjeux touchant la participation des étudiants dans les programmes de premier cycle en éducation des adultes.Mots clés : programmes de premier cycle en éducation des adulte