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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 469 039 CE 082 695 AUTHOR Nesbit, Tom, Ed. TITLE [Proceedings of the] 20th Anniversary Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (Quebec, Canada, May 25-27, 2001). INSTITUTION Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, Guelph (Ontario). PUB DATE 2001-00-00 NOTE 207p.; Two papers are in French. AVAILABLE FROM For full text: http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/CASAE/ cnf2001/cnf2001.html. PUB TYPE Collected Works Proceedings (021) EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF01/PC09 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Adoption (Ideas); *Adult Education; *Adult Learning; Adult Literacy; Adult Students; Canada Natives; Case Studies; Change Strategies; Cultural Differences; Educational Change; *Educational Practices; *Educational Research; Foreign Countries; Global Approach; Learning Processes; Lifelong Learning; Literacy Education; Models; Nongovernmental Organizations; Reading Instruction; Research Design; *Research Methodology; Research Utilization; Skill Development; Strategic Planning; Student Characteristics; Teaching Methods; *Theory Practice Relationship; Transformative Learning; Tribally Controlled Education IDENTIFIERS Bangladesh; *Canada; Electronic Learning; Global Economy; Information Society; Ireland; Learning Organizations; Marginalized Groups; Thailand ABSTRACT This document contains 29 papers and 7 roundtable presentations from a Canadian conference on the study of adult education. The following papers are among those included: "Cultivating Knowledge" (Mike Ambach); "Subsistence Learning" (Rose Barg); "Non-Governmental Organizations and Popular Education Programs" (Bijoy P. Barua); "The Learning Organization" (Maureen S. Bogdanowicz, Elaine K. Baily); "Learning in Later Life" (Margaret Fisher Brillinger, Carole Roy); "Postcards from the Edge" (Shauna Butterwick, Michael Marker); "The Reading Strategies of Adult Basic Education Students" (Pat Campbell, Grace Malicky); "Feminist Artist- Educators and Community Revitalisation" (Darlene E. Clover); "Lifelong Learning in the New Economy" (Jane Cruikshank); "Contribution a la Reflexion Andragogique sur 'L'Economie du Savoir'" (Francine D'Ortun); "Adult Literacy as Social Relations" (Richard Darville); "Learning to Change" (John Egan); "Global Adult Education, Justice and Spirituality" (Leona English); "Dimensions of Spirituality" (Tara Fenwick, Leona English, Jim Parsons); "Canadian Research in Adult Education in the 1990s" (Tara Fenwick, Shauna Butterwick, Shahrzad Mojab); "The Parent They Knew and the 'New' Parent" (Linda Furlini); "Being, Becoming, and Belonging as a Queer Citizen Educator" (Andre P. Grace); "A Search for Sustainable Livelihoods within Global Marketplaces" (Carolyn Jongeward); "Re-Membering and Re-Picturing Activist Mothers" (Dorothy A. Lander); "Spirituality as a Sustaining Dimension of the Transformational Learning Process" (Maureen McCallum); "The Impact of Globalization on Human Rights" (Derek Mulenga); "Creating New Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Stories" (Mark Murphy, Brenda-Morgan Klein); "Graduate Students' Perspectives on Adult Education" (Tom Nesbit, Edward W. Taylor); "Les Nouveaux du Travail et de la Carriere" (Danielle Riverin-Simard); "The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Labour Movement-Based E-Learning" (Peter H. Sawchuk); "Enlightenment and Engagement in Adult Education for Democratic Citizenship" (Daniel Schugurensky); "Agency in the Knowledge Society" (James Sharpe); "Community Sustainability and Lifelong Learning" (Jennifer Sumner); "The Experience of Story Telling" (Debra Whitman); "Spaces for Community Development" (Pramila Aggarwal, Bill Fallis, Bob Lucker); "Academic Adult Education and the Vocation of Intellectual Work" (Jane Dawson); "Facilitating More Servant Leadership and Stewardship" (Kathleen Dodman-Kevany); and "The Master's Tools" (Budd L. Hall, Maria Turner). Most papers contain substantial bibliographies. 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Proceedings edited by: Professor Tom Nesbit Centre for Labour Studies Simon Fraser University 20th Anniversary Conference of Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education May 25-27, 2001 Laval University, Quebec Table of Contents Cultivating knowledge: Learning and transformation in community supported agriculture Mike Ambach 1 Subsistence learning: An artful look into motherwork as a site of learning Rose Barg 8 Non-governmental organizations and popular education programs: Can they mobilize culturally appropriate grassroots organizations in rural Bangladesh Bijoy Barua 14 The Learning organization: A diverse community of knowledge workers Maureen Bogdanowicz, Elaine Bailey 20 Learning in later life: Researchers' initial impressions Margaret Fisher Brillinger, Carole Roy 26 Postcards from the edge: Towards a tribal postcolonial view of adult education Shauna Butterwick, Michael Marker 31 The reading strategies of adult basic education students Pat Campbell, Grace Malicky 37 Feminist artist-educators and community revitilization: Case studies from Toronto Darlene Clover 43 Lifelong learning in the new economy: A great leap backwards Jane Cruikshank 49 Contribution a la reflexion andragogique sur «l'economie du savoir» Par Francine D'Ortun 55 Adult literacy as social relations: A democratic theorizing Richard Darville 61 Learning to change: Agrassroots program planning model John Egan 67 Global adult education, justice and spirituality Leona English 72 Dimensions of spirituality: A framework for adult educators Tara Fenick, Leona English, Jim Parsons 78 Canadian research in adult education in the 1990's: A cautious cartography Tara Fenwick, Shahrzad Mojab, Shauna Butterwick 86 The parent they knew and the "new" parent: Daughters' perceptions with dementia of the Alzheimer Linda Furlini 93 Being, becoming and belonging as a queer citizen educator: The places of queer autobiography, queer culture as community, and fugitive knowledge Andre Grace 100 A search for sustainable livelihoods within global marketplaces: Stories of learning and change among rural artisans in Thailand Carolyn Jongeward 107 Re-membering and re-picturing activist mothers: The Canadian Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the audiovisual rhetoric of "home protection" Dorothy Lander 114 Spirituality as a sustaining dimension of the transformational learning process: Surviving psychological wife abuse Maureen McCallum 121 The impact of globalization on human rights: The challenge for adult educators Derek Mulenga 127 Creating new stories: Exploring the restructuring of university adult education in Ireland and Scotland Mark Murphy, Brenda Morgan-Klein 134 Graduate students' perspectives on adult education Tom Nesbit, Edward Taylor 140 Les nouveaux du travail et de la carriere Danielle Riverin-Samard 147 The pitfalls and possibilities of labour movement-based e-learning Peter Sawchuk 153 Enlightenment and engagement in adult education for democratic citizenship: Lessons from the Citizens' Forum and the Participatory Budget Daniel Schugurensky 159 Agency in the knowledge society: Social movements and knowledge creation James Sharpe 165 6 Community sustainability and lifelong learning: Two sides of our future well-being Jennifer Sumner 171 The experience of story telling: Being told stories & telling my own Debra Whitman 178 Roundtable Discussion: Spaces for community development: Lost and found, a roundtable discussion Pramila Aggarwal, Bill Fallis, Bob Luker 185 Academic adult education and the vocation of intellectual work: Conditions and quandaries Jane Dawson 187 Facilitating more servant leadership and stewardship Kathleen Dodman-Kevany 189 The master's tools: Critical adult learning in a web-based adult education course Budd Hall 192 From marginalized to mainstream: Different stories, similar needs:encounters with diverse groups in the practice of adult education Cheryl Jeffs, Kate Briscoe, Linda Furlini, Mary Jo Gascon 193 Learning the story: Toward a narrative model of helping in rural communities Bill Randall, Rosemary Clews 195 Building sustainable communitiesprofits and losses! R.J. Moreland 198 7 Cultivating Knowledge: Learning and Transformation in Community Supported Agriculture Mike Ambach University of Concordia Abstract: A needs-centered approach in adult education and a technicist view of learning as the gaining of knowledge capital fail to recognize the possibility of situated knowledge in social change. Community supported agriculture serves as site to explore this. Thought for Food The typical article of food on a North American's plate travels about 1,300 km to get there, which is something like a tenfold increase in the past 50 years. The energy in calories that goes into preserving, packaging, and transporting the food item may far exceeded the energy in calories that goes into the person who eats