Dr. Patricia Gouthro
Associate Professor
Office: Seton 437
Phone: (902) 457-6103
Fax: (902) 457-4911
E-mail: msvu.ca
Research and Teaching Interests
- Critical feminist theory and pedagogy
- Learning in the homeplace
- Cross-cultural teaching and research
- Policies and practices in lifelong learning
- Active citizenship
- Higher education
- Philosophical and critical theoretical perspectives
Background
PhD, Educational Foundations, Dalhousie University
MA, Sociology, University of Guelph
Current Research Grants
External Research Grant
- Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2004) Examining Women's Lifelong Learning Trajectories in Canada: Implications for Adult and Higher Education in Canada.
- Canadian Council on Learning (2006) Active Citizenship for Women in Nova Scotia
Internal Research Grant
- Sisters in Crime: A Feminist Adult Learning Organization (2004).
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Selected Publications
- Gouthro, P.A. (2007). Active and inclusive citizenship for women: Democratic considerations for fostering lifelong learning. International Journal of Lifelong Education. 26, 2, 143-154.
- Gouthro, P.A. (2006). Reason, Communicative Learning, and Civil Society: The Use of Habermasian Theory in Adult Education. Journal of Educational Thought. 40, 1, 5-22.
- Gouthro, P.A. (2005). A critical feminist analysis of the homeplace as learning site: Expanding the discourse of lifelong learning. International Journal of Lifelong Education. 24, 1.
- Gouthro, P.A. (2004). Five Lives Well Lived: Life Histories of Jamaican Adult Educators. Convergence. XXXVII, 2, 39-53.
- Gouthro, P.A. (2004). Assessing power issues in Canadian and Jamaican women=s experiences in learning via distance in higher education. Teaching in Higher Education. 9, 4, 449-461.
- Grace, A.P., Gouthro, P.A. & Mojab, S. (2003). "Thinking the practice": Academic adult educators' reflections on mediating a summer institute as a multicultural learning journey for graduate students. Studies in Continuing Education. 25, 1, 51-73.
- Gouthro, P.A. (2002). Education for sale: at what cost? lifelong learning and the marketplace. International Journal of Lifelong Education. Vol. 21, No. 4, 334-346.
- Gouthro, P.A. (2002). What Counts? Examining Academic Values and Women's Life Experiences from a Critical Feminist Perspective. Canadian Journal for Studies in Adult Education. 16, 1, 1-19.
- Gouthro, P.A. (2000). Globalization, Civil Society and the Homeplace. Convergence. Vol. XXXIII, No. 1-2, 57-76.
- Grace, A.P. & Gouthro, P.A. (2000). Connecting feminist pedagogies to issues and directions in graduate education for women students. Studies in Continuing Education. 22, 1, 5-28.
Book Reviews
- Gouthro, P. A. (2004). Review of Fenwick, T.J. Learning Through Experience: Troubling Orthodoxies and Intersecting Questions. In The Alberta Journal of Educational Research. 50, 2, 211-214.
- Gouthro, P.A.(2002). Review of Bannerji, H., Mojab, S. & Whitehead, J. (eds). Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism. In Adult Education Quarterly. 53, 1, 69-71.
- Gouthro, P.A. (1994). Review of Wildemeersch, D. & Jansen, T. (Eds.) Adult Education, Experiential Learning and Social Change: The Postmodern Challenge. In The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education. 8, 2, 75-79.
Patricia Gouthro's personal website
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