Dr. Bruce Spencer
Professor, Centre for Work and Community Studies
Abbreviated C.V.
Nationality:
British and Canadian (1995)
Present position:
- Professor, Centre for Work and Community Studies, Athabasca University.
- Program Director, Human Resources and Labour Relations.
Previous posts:
- 1984/90 Lecturer (assistant professor equivalent), University
of Leeds, Department of Adult Continuing Education.
- 1976/84 Workers' Educational Association, Industrial Tutor.
Qualifications:
- 1992 University of Leeds, IR/Labour/Education PhD
- 1976 University of Warwick, Industrial Relations MA
- 1971 London External, Economics BSc (Econ)
- 1968 Edge Hill College, Education (Liverpool Uni.) Cert Ed
Books, Pamphlets and Editions:
- Contexts of Adult Education: Canadian Perspectives (Edited with Tara Fenwick and Tom Nesbit), Toronto: Thompson Educational Press, 2006.
- Unions and Learning
in a Global Economy: International and Comparative Perspectives (Ed.), 180pp., Toronto: Thompson Educational Press, 2002.
- The Purposes
of Adult Education, Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing, 1998. (New edition 2006, The Purposes of Adult Education: A Short Introduction)
- Learning for Life: Canadian Readings in Adult Education, (Edited with Sue Scott and Alan Thomas), Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing, 1998.
- Remaking the Working Class? An Examination of Shop Stewards' Experience, Nottingham, Spokesman, 1989.
- (with M. Stinson) Equal Pay, 1968-1989, London, WEA - Studies for Trade Unionists, 1989.
- Editor Industrial Tutor from Vol 4 (4), 1986, to Vol 4 (10), 1989.
- (with J. McIlroy) University Adult Education in Crisis, University of Leeds, Leeds Studies in Adult Education, 1988.
- Post-War Trade Unionism: Its Role and Significance, London, WEA - Studies for Trade Unionists, 1987.
- Adult Education with the Unemployed, (Editor) Dept. of Adult & Continuing Education, University of Leeds, 1986.
Selected Recent Articles and Chapters:
- The Present and Future Challenges of Labour Education in the International Labour Office publication Labour Education 2007/1-2, No. 146-147 pp.11-17. Also printed in Spanish and French.
- Is Workplace Learning Higher Education? in Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education 2005 (printed 2007) Vol. 19, No. 2 pp.33-51. (With J. Kelly).
- Labour Education in Contexts of adult education: Canadian perspectives, Thompson Educational Publishing, 2006. pp.208-217. (With J. Taylor).
- Distance Education Online: A Forum for Adult Education? in Contexts of adult education: Canadian perspectives, Thompson Educational Publishing, 2006. pp. 307-315. (With Dianne Conrad).
- Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition and Labour Education in Encyclopaedia of Adult Education, Palgrave MacMillan, p508-512, and p339-344, 2005.
- On-line Adult Learning. Chapter in Foley, G. Dimensions of Adult Learning: Adult education and training in a global era. NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin. 2004 pp.189-200.
- Labour Education: An Introduction, Chapter in Unions and Learning in a Global Economy: International and Comparative Perspectives (Ed.), 180pp, Toronto: Thompson Educational Press, 2002.
- (with Naomi Frankel) Unions and Learning in a Global Economy, Chapter in Unions and Learning in a Global Economy: International and Comparative Perspectives (Ed.), 180pp, Toronto: Thompson Educational Press, 2002.
- Changing Questions of Workplace Learning Researchers, Chapter in Fenwick, T. (Ed.), Sociocultural Perspectives on Learning through Work: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education #92, New York: Jossey-Bass. 2001. pp.31-40.
- Workers’ Education for the Twenty-First Century, Chapter in Learning for Life, p164-177, 1998.
- Distance Education and the Virtual Classroom, Chapter in Learning for Life, p343-353, 1998.
Bruce Spencer PhD
Professor, Centre for Work and Community Studies
Athabasca University
Athabasca, AB, T9S 3A3, Canada
Phone (780) 675 6347
FAX (780) 675 6338
E-mail bruces@athabascau.ca
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