Courses Taught
Research Interests
Publications
Student Supervision

Courses Taught
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ADHE 500 Foundations of Adult Education
ADHE 505 Perspectives on Adult Education Practice
ADHE 535 International and Comparative Adult and Higher Education
ADHE 565A Adult Literacy, Gender and Development: Focus on Asia Pacific
ADED/LLED 565B Adult Literacy Education
EDST 314 Analysis of Education

Research Interests

Popular Protest, Forest Conservation and Livelihood: Adult Learning in Environmental Movements in Asia

Literacy, Imagined Nations and Imperialism: Frontier College and the Construction of British Canada, 1899-1931

Adult Literacy, Gender and Development

Publications

2007 Walter, P. Activist forest monks, adult learning and the Buddhist environmental movement in Thailand. International Journal of Lifelong Education 26(3) (in press).

2007 Walter, P. Adult Learning in New Social Movements: Environmental Protest and the Struggle for the Clayoquot Sound Rainforest. Adult Education Quarterly (in press).

2005 Walter, P. Literacy practices in development: an ethnographic study of women in Northeastern Thailand. Studies in the Education of Adults 37(1), 63-77.

2004 Nathan, D., Kelkar, G. & Walter, P. (eds.) Globalization and Indigenous Peoples In Asia: Changing The Local-Global Interface. New Delhi, London and Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

2004 Walter, P. Through a gender lens: Explaining Northeastern Thai women's participation in adult literacy education. International Journal of Lifelong Education 23(5), 423-441.

2004 Walter, P. Tourism and forest management among the Hani in Xishuangbanna, China. In Dev Nathan, Govind Kelkar and Pierre Walter (eds.) Globalization and Indigenous Peoples in Asia: Changing the Local-Global Interface (pp. 207-224). New Delhi: Sage.

2003 Kelkar, G., Nathan, D. & Walter, P. (eds.) Patriarchy at Odds: Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia. New Delhi, London and Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

2003 Walter, P. Literacy, imagined nations and imperialism: Frontier College and the construction of British Canada, 1899-1933. Adult Education Quarterly 54(1), 42-58.

2003 Walter, P. Adult literacy education on the Canadian frontier. Adult Basic Education 13(1), 3-18.

2002 Walter, P. Adult literacy education and development in Thailand: An historical analysis of policies and programs from the 1930s to the present. International Journal of Lifelong Education 21(2), 79-98.

2002 Walter, P. & Wannitikul, G. Engendering economic valuation of the environment. Gender, Technology and Development 6(3), 339-353.

2001 Walter, P. The restructuring of academia. Adult Education Quarterly 52(1), 70-77.

1999 Walter, P. Defining literacy and its consequences in the developing world. International Journal of Lifelong Education 18(1), 31-48.

1998 Walter, P. Southeast Asian refugees' strategies for meeting literacy demands: An exploratory study. Adult Basic Education 8(3), 123-138.

1997 Walter, P. Resource conservation and land tenure in Karen and Lua systems of shifting cultivation in Northern Thailand. Suranaree Journal of Science and Technology 4(2), 75-86.

1995 Hayes, E. and Walter, P. A comparison of small group learning approaches in adult literacy education. Adult Basic Education 5(3), 133-151.

1994 Walter, P. An assessment of the educational needs of Hmong adults: Implications for practice. Adult Basic Education, 4(1), 35-49.

Student Supervision

Carolina Palacios, PhD. Learning to Resist: Civil Society and Redemocratization in Chile. Educational Policy Studies. Educational Policy Studies. (current).

Hiroko Hara, PhD. Human Rights Education and Gender Equality in Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Strategies in Adult Education in Cambodia. Educational Policy Studies. w/ Jennifer Chan-Tiberghein. (current).

Cindy Hanson, PhD. Possibilities and Paradoxes: Locating and Informing Feminist Pedagogy through the Facilitation Practices of Women’s Rights and Gender Activists. Educational Policy Studies. w/ Jennifer Chan-Tiberghein. (current).

Betsy Alkenbrack, PhD. From Instructor to Researcher and Back: An Ethnography of a Practitioner Research Project. Educational Policy Studies. w/ Kjell Rubenson. (current).

Misun Nam, MA. The Role of Informal Learning in the Development of Transnational Identities: A Case Study of Korean Immigrant Mothers. Adult Education. (current).

Koyali Burman, MA. Towards a Gender-Sensitive Model for Program Planning in Distance Education for Development. Adult Education. (current).

Madeleine Csillag-Wong, MEd. Solutions From Within:  Addressing Workload Concerns of Registered Nurses on a Subacute Medical/Rehabilitation Unit at a British Columbia Community Hospital. Adult Education (current).

Hiroko Hara, MA, 2006. Diasporic and Transnational Notions of Belonging: A Case Study of Cambodians in Japan. Feminist Approaches to Social Justice in Education.

Linh Thuy Tran, MA, 2006. Contested Imagined Communities: Higher Education for Ethnic Minority Students in Vietnam. Higher Education.

Jacqueline Quigley, MEd, 2006. A Learning Journey: Reflections of a Prison Educator. Adult Education.

David Jele, PhD, 2005. Political Economy of Literacy in Development: A Case Study of Educational Policy in Swaziland. Educational Policy Studies. w/ Kjell Rubenson.

Cindy Bouvet, MEd, 2005. Challenging Normal: Cycling in The Big Ride Across America: A Meaning-Making Journey. Adult Education.

Carolina Palacios, MA, 2004. Democracy and Non-violent Structural Change: A Critical Inquiry into the Concept of Civic Society and its Relationships with Adult Learning. Adult Education.

Mee Lain Ling, MA, 2004. Methodology of Decolonizing Gender and International Development: A View from China. Feminist Approaches to Social Justice in Education.

Lonnie McGuinn, MEd, 2004. Destabilizing The 'Intellectual:' Eurocentrism, Resistance & Sites Of Possibility. Feminist Approaches to Social Justice in Education.

Amea Wilbur, MEd, 2004. Re-Visioning A Tutor-Training Manual for Live-In Caregivers In Vancouver. Feminist Approaches to Social Justice in Education.

Bruce VanGroenigen, MEd, 2003. Turning the Tables: A Call to Introduce Problem-Based Learning in Technical Education. Adult Education.

Reyla Lopez, MEd, 2003. Women’s Empowerment: A Case Study of a Poverty Reduction Project in Rural China. Adult Education.

External Examiner

2006, Ed.D. Paul Kolenick. An Investigation into Environmental Policy: The Discourse of Environmental Management and its Effect on Educational Practice at the Saskatchewan Power Corporation. Department of Educational Studies.
 
2005, Ed.D. Jennifer Rodriguez. Presence, Clarity and the Space of Receptivity in Counselling: Shambala Buddhist Counsellors’ Narrative of Experience. Department of Educational Studies.

2005, Ed.D. Brenda Firman. Renewing Aboriginal Education through Relationship and Community. Department of Educational Studies.

2004, M.A. Theo Breedon. Interpreting Literacies: Moroccan Women's Stories from the Classroom. School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP).

2004, M.A. Bonnie Soroke. Doing Freedom: Ethnography of an Adult Literacy Centre, Adult Education, Department of Educational Studies.

2004, Ph.D. Henry Kang. Stakeholders’ Receptiveness to an Ethnomathematics Curriculum Foundation in Cameroon. Centre for Cross Faculty Inquiry.

2003, M.A. Isabeau Iqbal. Mothers' Experience of French Mother-tongue Maintenance: Towards a Critical Literacy Approach. Adult Education, Department of Educational Studies.

Supervision at Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok (committee membership, 1997-2001)

1999-2001, Ph.D. Rapeepan Talawat. A Holistic Approach to Collective Action on Family and Community Development: Case Studies of Villages in Northeastern Thailand. Rural and Regional Development Planning.

1997-2001, Ph.D. Yu Xiao Gang. Community Forest, Indigenous Knowledge and Gender Relations: A Case Study of Yunnan China. Gender and Development.

1998-2001, Ph.D. Chusana Konjantes. Factors Associated with Psychiatric Symptomology among Thai Battered Women. Gender and Development.

2000, Ph.D. Girija Shresta. Gender Relations and Changes in Housing Design in Different Communities in Nepal. Urban Planning, Land and Housing Development.

1999, M.Sc. Hlaing Myint. Environmental Awareness Regarding Domestic Waste Disposal Behavior in Yangoon, Myanmar. Urban Environmental Management.

1999, M.Sc. Ruh Afza Ruhi. Gender Concerns in NGOs: A Case Study of Four NGOs in Bangladesh. Gender and Development.

1999, M.Sc. Aneela Z. Babar. Texts of War: Militarism and Gender Identity in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Gender and Development.

1999, M.Sc. Krishna Kalad. Gender, Culture and Architecture: A Study through Traditional, Modern and Postmodern Periods in Ahmedabad and Berlin. Gender and Development.

1999, M.Sc. Nguyen Kim Ha. Rural Women's Migration to Hanoi, Vietnam. Gender and Development.

1998, M.Sc. Guo Rui Xiang. Gender and Poverty: Microfinance for Rural Women in Yilong County, Sichuan Province. Human Settlements Development.

1998, M.Sc. Saiwaroon Boonkong. Women and Men's Participation in Rural Community-Based Development in Thailand. Gender and Development.