Associate Professor
Department of Educational Studies (EDST)
Dr. Butterwick is an adult education scholar who uses feminist approaches to her study of adult learning, particularly women’s learning. She has studied welfare programs, workplace learning, and learning in social activism. Much of her research is conducted in partnership with community organizations where she seeks to build reciprocal relations between university and community. She has also written about the power and value of arts-based pedagogy for adult learning.
Contributions:
Butterwick, S., & Elfert, M. (forthcoming 2014). Women social activists of Atlantic Canada. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education.
Butterwick, S., & Selman, J. (2012). Embodied knowledge and decolonization: Walking with theatre’s powerful and risky pedagogy. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 134, 61-70.
Butterwick, S. (2012). The politics of listening: The power of theatre to create dialogic spaces. In L. Manicom & S. Walters (Eds.), Feminist Popular Education in Transnational Feminist Debates: Building Pedagogies of Possibility (pp. 59-74). Palgrave MacMillan, NYL New York
Butterwick, S. (2010, July). Meaningful training programs for BC welfare recipients with multiple barriers: Help first, not work first. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. (28 pages) http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/meaningful-training-programs
Butterwick, S. (2013). Class and poverty matters: The role of Adult education in reproduction and resistance. In T. Nesbit, N. Taber, S. Brigham & T. Gibb (Eds.), Building on Critical Traditions: Adult Education and Learning in Canada (pp. 129-138) Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing
Keywords:
Adult education; Lifelong learning; Women's learning; Social movement learning; Arts-based pedagogy; Community-based adult education.
shauna.butterwick@ubc.ca
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