[ Qualifications ]
[ Principal Interests ] [ Research
Supervision ]
[ Biographical
Note ] [ Current
and Recent Research ] [ Publications ]
Qualifications
- BSc (Hons) Sociology
- MA Sociology
- PGCE
- PhD
Principal
Interests
- Popular education
- Social movements and information
and communication technologies
- Adult literacy and Numeracy
- The politics of policy in adult
and community education
Research
Supervision
I am keen
to supervise research in the areas listed above and
on most aspects of adult and community education.
I currently supervise students in the following areas:
- Aggeliki
Plouma: The experience of experiential learning
for youth at risk
- Henry
Young: Freire in China (provisional title)
- Vernon
Galloway - title undecided
Biographical
Note
I have been involved as a practitioner,
researcher and academic in adult and community education since 1980. My
PhD focussed on adult learning in and through popular protests. I am the
co-ordinator of an international popular education network (PEN) for academics
and researchers in higher education. PEN has approximately 160 members
form over 56 institutions in 25 countries. The network operates on a mail
list but also holds regular conferences too. My undergraduate teaching
involves an introductory course on community education and I have responsibility
for teaching adult education at undergraduate and postgraduate level for the
BA Honours and Master's programmes of study.
Current
and Recent Research
- Learning through ICTs
in social movements: a case study of the environmental justice movement
in Scotland, May 2007-September 2009, ESRC
- Motivating adult literacies
learners to persist, progress and achieve: literacies learners at risk
of non-completion of learning targets, August 2007-March 2008
- Identifying and quantifying
the social capital outcomes of CLD: a pilot study, Jan-May 2007
Publications
Selected
Publications:
Crowther, J., Hemmi, A., Martin, I and Scandrett, E (2008) 'Spaces of hope', Adults Learning vol 19 (10).
Crowther, J (2007) 'Active citizenship against social exclusion', in Lucio-Villegas, E and Carmen Martinez, M (eds) Adult Learning and the Challenges of Social and Cultural Diversity: Diverse Lives, Cultures, Learnings and Literacies, Seville: Dialogos.
Sutherland, P and Crowther, J (2006) (eds) Lifelong Learning: Concepts and Contexts, RoutledgeFalmer.
Crowther, J (2006) 'Knowledge and learning in social movements: issues and opportunities for adult community education', in Edwards, R., Gallacher, J and Whittaker, S (eds.) Learning Outside the Academy: International Research Perspectives, RoutledgeFalmer.
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on the School's Publications Database
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