Research Interests and Recent Publications

(Last revised August 2002)


Grace, André
Telephone: 492-0767
Fax: 492-2024
E-Mail: andre.grace@ualberta.ca

AREAS OF RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Queer theory/studies/pedagogy
  • Feminist theory/studies
  • Critical pedagogy
  • Welfare-and-work issues for queer teachers
  • Inclusive education
  • The historical foundations of education

SCHOLARLY PUBLISHED WORK

BOOK CHAPTERS
  • Grace, A. P. (1998). Parameters, pedagogy, and possibilities in changing times. In S. M. Scott, B. Spencer, & A. Thomas (Eds.), Learning for life: Canadian readings in adult education (pp. 114-124). Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing.
  • Grace, A. P. (2001). Using queer cultural studies to transgress adult educational space. In V. Sheared & P. A. Sissel (Eds.), Making space: Merging theory and practice in adult education (pp. 257-270). Westport, CN: Bergin & Garvey.
  • Grace, A. P. (2001). Poetry is narrative inquiry. In L. Neilsen, A. L. Cole, & J. G. Knowles (Eds.), The art of writing inquiry (pp. 26-31). Halifax, NS: Backalong Books.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • Grace, A. P. (1995). The gospel according to Father Jimmy: The missions of J. J. Tompkins, pioneer adult educator in the Antigonish movement. Convergence, 28(2), 63-78.
  • Grace, A. P., & Benson, F. J. (1996). Reconstructing and interpreting life history: Using autobiographical research to help shape critical pedagogy as a transformative practice. Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, 18(1), 51-60.
  • Grace, A. P. (1996). Striking a critical pose: Andragogy-missing links, missing values. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 15(5), 382-392.
  • Grace, A. P. (1997). Where critical postmodern theory meets practice: Working in the intersection of instrumental, social, and cultural education. Studies in Continuing Education, 19(1), 51-70.
  • Grace, A. P. (1999). Building a knowledge base in US academic adult education (1945-1970). Studies in the Education of Adults, 31(2), 220-236.
  • Grace, A. P. (2000). Academic adult education in Canada and the United States (1917-1970): A chronology of their emergence and a conspectus of their development. PAACE Journal of Lifelong Learning, 9, 65-78.
  • Grace, A. P. (2000). Canadian and US adult learning (1945-1970) and the cultural politics and place of lifelong learning. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 19(2), 141-158.
  • Grace, A. P., & Benson, F. J. (2000). Using autobiographical queer life narratives of teachers to connect personal, political, and pedagogical spaces. Journal of Inclusive Education, 4(2), 89-109.
  • 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.
  • Grace, A. P. & Wells, K. (2001). Getting an education in Edmonton, Alberta: The case of queer youth. Torquere, Journal of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association, 3.
  • Grace, A. P., Gouthro, P. A., & Mojab, S. (in press). "Thinking the practice:" Academic adult educators' reflections on mediating a summer institute as a multicultural learning journey for graduate students. Studies in Continuing Education (May 2003 issue). :\HTMLWR 1\$temp.htm

BOOK REVIEWS
  • Grace, A. P. (1995). Gordon Selman's Adult education in Canada-Historical essays: A book review. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 9(2), 74-76.
  • Grace, A. P. (2001). Carl E. James's Seeing ourselves: Exploring ethnicity, race, and culture: A book review. Adult Education Quarterly, 51(3), 251-253.
  • Grace, A. P. (2001). N. Brown & I. Szeman's Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in culture: A book review. Interchange, 32(2), 203-205.

PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS
  • Grace, A. P. (1995). Looking back, looking forward: The impact of knowledge production in adult education in the 1960s. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, Concordia University, Montréal, PQ, 108-112.
  • Grace, A. P. (1996). Adult educators as border crossers: Using transformative pedagogy to inform classroom practice. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Adult Education Research Conference, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 145-150.
  • Grace, A. P. (1996). Professionalization and diversity encounters in the 1950s and 1960s: The space and place of diversity issues during the ascendancy of the US professional adult educator. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, 141-148.
  • Grace, A. P. (1997). Taking it to practice: Building a critical postmodern theory of adult learning community. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Adult Education Research Conference, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 126-131.
  • Grace, A. P. (1997). Beyond the fear of theorizing: Building a critical postmodern pedagogy in learning communities. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NF, 107-113.
  • Edwards, K., Grace, A. P., Henson, B., Henson, W., Hill, R. J., & Taylor, E. (1998). Tabooed terrain: Reflections on conducting adult education research in lesbian/gay/queer arenas (Symposium). Proceedings of the 39th Annual Adult Education Research Conference, University of the Incarnate Word and Texas A & M, San Antonio, TX, 317-324.
  • Grace, A. P. (1998). Adult education as building community: The parameters and realities of enterprise identity in North America (1945-70). Proceedings of the 39th Annual Adult Education Research Conference, University of the Incarnate Word and Texas A & M, San Antonio, TX, 143-148.
  • Grace, A. P. (1998). Doing 'history' not doing 'History': Making sense of modern practice as a cultural practice. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, 119-123.
  • Grace, A. P. (1999). Adult education as building community: The parameters and realities of enterprise identity in North America (1945-70). (Invited Speaker). Proceedings of the 4th Annual Pennsylvania Adult and Continuing Education Research Conference, Temple University, Harrisburg, PA, 15-20.
  • Grace, A. P. (1999). Canadian and US academic adult education (1917-1970): A chronology and conspectus of their emergence. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ, 98-102.
  • Grace, A. P. (2000). The modern practice of Canadian and US academic adult education during the brief American century (1945-1973): People, politics, and ideas shaping an emerging field. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Adult Education Research Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, 139-144.
  • Grace, A. P. (2000). Building an inclusive pedagogy of lifelong learning community. Proceedings of the Lifelong Learning Conference, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 54-59.
  • Grace, A. P. (2000). Linking autobiographical life-narrative research to positional pedagogy: Situating the educator in practice by connecting the personal and the pedagogical. Proceedings of the 2000 CASWE (Canadian Association for the Study of Women and Education) International Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, 90-95.
  • Grace, A. P. (2001). Being, becoming, and belonging as a queer citizen educator: The places of queer autobiography, queer culture as community, and fugitive knowledge. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, Laval University, Quebec City, PQ, 100-106.
  • Grace, A. P., & Gouthro, P. (2000). Feminist pedagogies and graduate adult and higher education: Matters of connection and possibility for women students. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Adult Education Research Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, 134-138.
  • Grace, A. P., Gouthro, P. A., & Mojab, S. (2001). Inverting formal learning in academic adult education: using insurgent theories and positional pedagogies to shape a summer institute as a transgressive learning journey. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults, University of East London, London, UK, 140-143.
  • Grace, A. P., & Hill, R. J. (2001). Using queer knowledges to build inclusionary pedagogy in adult education. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Adult Education Research Conference, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, 145-150.
  • Grace, A. P. (2002). "Transformational ministry" and "reparative therapy:" Transformative learning gone awry. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Adult Education Research Conference, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 123-128.
  • Grace, A. P. (2002). Lifelong learning: International perspectives on policy and practice. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, 128-133.
  • Grace, A. P. (2002). Intersecting instrumental, social, and cultural education to build and sustain inclusive lifelong-learning communities. Proceedings of the 2nd International Lifelong Learning Conference, Central Queensland University, Yeppoon, Central Queensland, Australia, 181-187.

PROFESSIONAL ARTICLES
  • Grace, A. P. (2001). Sexual orientation, education, and teacher autobiography. Teaching and Learning Exchange 8(3), 3.