This work is a celebration of Canadian women in adult education. It highlights the challenges faced by women as educators, leaders, and learners as well as the remarkable contributions of individual women ...

Within each theme, the editors have selected contributions that help to clarify the diversity and richness of Canadian adult education today. The contributors are all leading researchers and practitioners ...

The Purposes of Adult Education: A Short Introduction focuses on three key dimensions of adult education ? education for the economy, education for social change, and education for diversity. It explores ...

Over 100,000 Canadian workers participate annually in educational programs conducted by their union or the broader labour organizations to which their union belongs. Union-based education is the most ...

From the early to late 1930s, a movement for a people’s economy, named the "Antigonish Movement", caught the imagination of the world. It leader was Rev. Moses Coady, Nova Scotia’s native son from ...

Alfred Fitzpatrick?s University in Overalls (1920) is reprinted here in its entirety to coincide with Frontier College?s one-hundredth anniversary in the autumn of 1999. An introduction by Jim Morrison, ...