Dr. Bruce Spencer

Professor, Centre for Work and Community Studies

Nationality:

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