Announcements

• Introduction from the editors

  2026-06-10

  The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education Spring 2026 Themed Issue - Adult Education and Sustainability - invites us to explore how sustainability knowledge and practices can make a difference in the lives of adults. As humans on a finite planet, we are facing an interconnected set of existential issues: climate change, war, displacement, and widespread precarity. In this context, sustainability may appear a distant goal. However, the history of adult education shows that adults continue to learn, even in the face of great adversity. Learning sustainability involves a pedagogy of hope that calls on all of us to become both educators and learners, working together toward a more sustainable world. This issue is a call to action for the adult education community to envision how their research, teaching, and practice can do more to foster sustainable ways of knowing, relating and being.

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• Fall 2025 Issue

  2026-02-11

  As we share this Fall 2025 issue of the Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, we find ourselves reflecting on the tensions, possibilities, and everyday practices that continue to define adult education in a moment marked by global displacement, ideological polarization, ecological urgency, and ongoing questions of social justice. As always, the journal’s vitality rests not only on scholarly contribution but also on collective commitments to care, reflexivity, and to the diverse learning worlds that adults inhabit. This issue showcases those commitments through research and reflection stretching across communities and sectors.

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• Feminist Adult Education and the Imagination: Creative and Arts-based Practices

  2025-10-09

  We live in a deeply troubled world, a world that we, the guest editors of this Special Issue, see as a colossal failure of the imagination. This failure of the imagination is an emboldened neocolonial, patriarchal capitalism which has decided whose stories matter to history whilst putting the future of our planet in peril. It is a failure that ridicules equality, democracy, collectivism and cultures of care as it gives unfettered licence to racism, xenophobia, misogyny and sexualised violence. As a failure of the imagination, colonial patriarchal capitalism manufactures poverty under the auspices and disappears truth and analogue reality under a greed of technical rational innovation. All of this hampers our efforts adult educators to help people not only challenge these practices of power but to imagine a different course.

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• Embracing Change: Conversations about Adult Education and Activism through Autoethnography

  2024-11-20

  Carole and Cindy first met at a conference on transformative learning, titled By The People Conference, at Arizona State University (December, 2015). That meeting and many others that have followed (usually in conjunction with CASAE) have often brought about vibrant conversations about activism, adult learning and community work. These conversations have served as a catalyst for the telling and analysis of our varied life stories. Through this special issue we share some of our journeys and those of other adult educators from North America.

   

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• Summer 2024

  2024-06-18

  For the People: Dorothy Smith and Adult Education

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• Volume 34 No 2 Fall 2022

  2023-01-11

  Breaking the Armour and Stirring the Soul

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• Volume 34 No 1 Spring 2022.

  2022-07-28

  This issue features six articles examining a diversity of thought and practice in adult education in Canada. As well, there is a poetic editorial on war, care and reflection, and a narrative editorial on critical anti-racism and white privilege with Stephen Brookfield.

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• CASAE's 40th Anniversary Special Edition

  2021-11-10

  For CASAE’s 40^th Anniversary, this special issue highlights the importance of the journal to the association. This issue features one editorial, a presidential address, a dialogue among past editors, seven articles, and two book reviews. Please join us in celebrating this remarkable achievement for association!

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• Learning and Teaching: Artful Narratives of Transformation

  2020-11-10

  Learning and Teaching: Artful Narratives of Transformation, a special issue of CJSAE, features ten artful articles from diverse perspectives and disciplines that illustrate transformation in both formal and informal learning and teaching contexts, field notes, and two book reviews. As well, it includes a virtual art exhibition–a first for this journal–meant to complement and extend discussions on the theme of learning, teaching and transformation.

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• French Language Editor for the CJSAE

  2020-10-29

  Please join us in welcoming Dr. Jean-Pierre Mercier from the  Université du Québec à Montréal as the new French Language Editor of the CJSAE! The French Language Editor will help review French language submissions and promote the CJSAE to Francophone adult education communities. Welcome, Jean-Pierre!

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• New Directions, New Provocations

  2020-04-17

  In this journal issue, we offer some critically engaged articles. In particular, James Czank questions if Canadian radical humanities programs are emancipatory in approach; Kim Browning examines perceptions of university faculty toward recognition of prior learning; Kathy Snow and Janice Tulk explore intergenerational learning and community action; William Kops investigates age-friendly universities in Canada; Jaswant Kaur Bajwa et al. study a trauma-informed educational support program for refugees; and Kaela Jubas examines the gendered and racialized spaces that occupy a football team’s advertisement in Calgary. Each article shares a useful perspective about adult and continuing education, and challenges us to learn.

   

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• Adult education, exhibitory strategies and museums

  2019-12-18

  The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education is pleased to announced the publication of Adult Education, Exhibition Strategies, and Museums. This special edition edited by Drs. Darlene Clover, Nancy Taber, and Kathy Sanford looks at the complex pedagogical and community engagement roles museums and art galleries play in the world today.   With each edition of the CJSAE a strong support team works quietly behind the scenes, ensuring that a high quality journal is produced. We would like to acknowledge: Lana Okerlund for copyediting, Catriona (Cat) LeBlanc for English/French translation (and some copyediting), Stephanie Leslie for layout, Roger Gillis for technical support.  Thanks!  Read More Read more about Adult education, exhibitory strategies and museums

• New Editor

  2019-08-01

  The Editorial Team for the Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education (CJSAE) as well as the membership of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE) would like to thank Dr. Nancy Taber for serving as Editor-in-Chief for 2 years (2017-19). Continuing the journal’s long history of having high quality Editors, Nancy’s leadership and guidance ensured that the CJSAE continues to be a major contributor to adult education discourses both nationally and globally. 

  Taking over as Editor-in-Chief on July 1, 2019 is Dr. Robert Mizzi from the University of Manitoba. Robert just completed a two-year term as President-Elect and President of CASAE. He brings with him a deep understanding of the varied discourse in adult education. Welcome, Robert!

  Scott MacPhail remains as managing editor.

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• From Part-time Students to Volunteer Tutors to Community Organizations: The Breadth of Adult Education

  2018-01-29

  The CJSAE is pleased to announce that this latest edition has been made possible with funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Read More Read more about From Part-time Students to Volunteer Tutors to Community Organizations: The Breadth of Adult Education

• Policies, Practices, and Praxis on the Margins, the latest edition of Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, is now on-line.

  2017-06-12

  The CJSAE is pleased to announce that this latest edition has been made possible with funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).    Read More Read more about Policies, Practices, and Praxis on the Margins, the latest edition of Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, is now on-line.

• The Varied Institutional Practices of Adult Education, the latest edition of Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, is now on-line.

  2016-05-06

  The CJSAE is pleased to announce that this latest edition has been made possible with funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). With SSHRC support, we have been able to provide full translation of an article by Bélisle and Rioux from French to English. The Journal staff hopes that our capacity to support translation to English of one French article per issue will open opportunities for future Francophone writers to submit their articles to the Journal.

   

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