Courses Taught
Research Interests
Publications
Graduate Students Supervised

Courses Taught

Foundations of Adult Education
Perspectives on Adult Education
Women and Education Seminar
Research Methods
Community Based Practice of Adult Education
Doctoral Seminar on Leadership and Policy

Research Interests

Women’s Learning and Education
Women and the Welfare State
Feminist Pedagogy
Learning and Social Movements
Policy Analysis
Arts-based inquiry

Welfare and Social Policy Reform and Economic Security
www.sfu.ca/economicsecurityproject/
I am one of the academic researchers on this CURA (Community University Research Alliance) SSHRC funded project which has three streams. I am working with the welfare and social policy reform stream which is investigating the impact of changes to policies and programs that provide support with basic needs ­ income, food, and shelter ­ to British Columbians. A second and equally important goal is the development of alternative models for enhancing the economic security of people living on low income.  A Path Out of Poverty – Helping Income Assistance Recipients Upgrade Their Education reports on policies and programs that were in place at BC colleges and institutes that supported students on income assistance to upgrade their education. This study was funded by the SFU-CCPA CURA grant and the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of BC. Copies of the report which was released January 31, 2006, are available at: http://www.policyalternatives.ca

Women's Alternate and Informal Learning Pathways to Jobs in the IT Sector. http://www.edst.educ.ubc.ca/IT/
The purpose of this study is to explore and document women's alternate and informal learning pathways to jobs in the IT (Information Technology) Sector. We have been exploring and documenting the alternate and informal pathways women create and utilize to acquire skills and knowledge for, and to access jobs in, the IT Sector (considered to be 'good jobs' in the 'new economy'). WE have collected over 60 work and learning histories from women who, for the most part, do not have formal IT credentials such as computer science or software engineering degrees.

Recent Publications

Butterwick, S., Dawson, J. & Munro, J. (2007 forthcoming) ‘Undone business’ in the academy: A script for three voices. Educational Insights.

Butterwick, S. & Selman, J.(2006) Embodied Metaphors: Telling Feminist Coalition Stories through Popular Theatre. In D. Clover & J. Stalker (Eds.) (2005). Special Issue: The art of social justice: Re-crafting activist adult education, New Zealand Journal of Adult Learning, 34(2), 42-58.

Jubas, K.; Butterwick, S; Zhu, H. & Liptrot, J. (2006) L/Earning a Living: Practices and Recognition of Women’s On-the-Job and Informal Learning in the Information Technology Field. Journal of Vocational Education, 58(4), 483-496.

Butterwick, S. & Benjamin, A. (2006). The road to Employability through personal development: A critical analysis of the silences and ambiguities of the British Columbia (Canada) Life Skills Curriculum. International Journal for Lifelong Education, 25(1), 75-86. 

Butterwick, S. & Dawson, J. (2005). Simplest things last: Examining the production of academic labour.Women’s Studies International Forum, 28, 51-65.

Butterwick, S. & Selman, J. (2003). Intentions and context: Popular theatre in a North American context. Convergence, 36(2), 51-66. 

Butterwick, S., Fenwick, T. & Mojab, S. (2003). Canadian adult education research in the 1990s: Tracing liberatory trends. The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 17(2), 1-19.

Butterwick, S. & Selman, J. (2003). Deep listening in a feminist popular theatre project: Upsetting the position of audience in participatory education. Adult Education Quarterly, 53(4), 7-23.

Butterwick, S. (2003). Researching speaking and listening across difference: Exploring feminist coalition politics through participatory theatre.  International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 16(3), 443-459.

Butterwick, S. (2002). Your story/my story/our story: Performing interpretation in participatory theatre.  Alberta Journal of Education, 48(3), 161-177.

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