Journal Articles

Scholarly Publications in Journals (Articles)

Gouthro, P.A. (2019). Taking time to learn: The importance of theory in adult education. Adult Education Quarterly, 69 (1), 60-75. [invited forum article]

Gouthro, P.A. & Holloway, S.M. (2018). Learning to be critically reflective: Exploring fiction writing and adult learning. Studies in Continuing Education,  40(2), 133-148. DOI: 10.1080/158037X.2017.1415875.

Gouthro, P.A., Taber, N. & Brazil, A. (2018). Universities as inclusive learning organizations for women? Considering the role of women faculty and leadership postions in academe. The Learning Organization, 25 (1), 29-39. DOI: 10.1108/TLO-05-2017-0049.

Gouthro, P.A. (2017). Special edition on Peter Jarvis. The promise of lifelong learning. International Journal of Lifelong Education. 1-15. doi: 10.1080/02601370.2017.1270067

Jarvis, C. & Gouthro, P.A. (2015). The role of the arts in professional education: Surveying the field. Studies in the Education of Adults, 47(1), 64-80.

Gouthro, P.A. (2014). Women of mystery: Investigating learning pathways of Canadian and American female crime fiction writers. Adult Education Quarterly, 64(4), 356-373. DOI: 10.1177/0741713614549573

Gouthro, P.A. (2014). Who gets to be a writer? Exploring identity and learning issues in becoming a fiction writer. Studies in Continuing Education, 36(2), 173-187. DOI: 10.1080/0158037X.2014.904777

Gouthro, P.A. (2014). Stories of learning across the lifespan: Life history and biograhical research in adult education. JACE: Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 20(1), 87-103. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/JACE.20.1.6

Holloway, S.M. & Gouthro, P.A. (2014). A Foucauldian analysis: Adult education and publishing Canadian fiction in a globalized context. RELA: The European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 5(1), 81-96. Click here for paper 

Gouthro, P.A. & Holloway, S.M. (2013). Preparing teachers to become lifelong learners: Exploring the use of fiction to develop multiliteracies and critical thinking. Special Issue of Language and Literacy, 15(3), 50-68.
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Gouthro, P.A. & Holloway, S.M. (2013). Reclaiming the radical: Using fiction to explore adult learning connected to citizenship. Studies in the Education of Adults, 45(1), 41-56.

Gouthro, P.A. (2012). Learning from the grassroots: Exploring democratic adult learning opportunities connected to grassroots organizations. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 135, 51-59. 

Gouthro, P.A. (2012). Learning your way into a life of crime (fiction): Assessing Sisters in Crime as a grassroots learning organization. The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education. 24(2), 34-50.  Click here for paper

Holloway, S.M. & Gouthro, P.A. (2011). Teaching novice resistant novice educators to be critically reflective. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 32(1), 29-41. 

Gouthro, P.A. (2010). Well-being and happiness: Critical, practical and philosophical considerations for policies and practices in lifelong learning. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 29(4), 461-474.

Gouthro, P.A. (2009). Neoliberalism, lifelong learning and the homeplace:  Problematizing the boundaries of ‘public’ and ‘private’ to explore women’s learning experiences. Studies in Continuing Education. 31(2), 157-172.

Gouthro, P.A. (2009) Life histories of Canadian women as active citizens: Implications for policies and practices in adult education.  The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education21(2),19-36. 

Gouthro, P.A. (2007). Active and inclusive citizenship for women: Democratic considerations for fostering lifelong learning. International Journal of Lifelong Education. 26(2), 143-154. 

Gouthro, P.A. (2006). Reason, communicative learning, and civil society: The use of Habermasian theory in adult education. Journal of Educational Thought. 40(1), 5-22. 

Gouthro, P.A. (2005). A critical feminist analysis of the homeplace as learning site: Expanding the discourse of lifelong learning. International Journal of Lifelong Education. 24(1), 5-19. 

Gouthro, P.A. (2004). Five lives well lived: Life histories of Jamaican adult educators. Convergence. XXXVII(2), 39-53.

Gouthro, P.A. (2004). Assessing power issues in Canadian and Jamaican women’s experiences in learning via distance in higher education. Teaching in Higher Education. 9(4), 449-461.

Grace, A.P., Gouthro, P.A. & Mojab, S. (2003).  “Thinking the practice”: Academic adult educators’ reflections on mediating a summer institute as a multicultural learning journey for graduate students. Studies in Continuing Education. 25(1), 51-73. 

Gouthro, P.A. (2002). Education for sale: at what cost? Lifelong learning and the marketplace. International Journal of Lifelong Education. 21(4), 334- 346.       

Gouthro, P.A. (2002). What counts?  Examining academic values and women’s life experiences from a critical feminist perspective. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education. 16(1), 1-19. 

Gouthro, P.A. (2000).  Globalization, civil society and the Homeplace. ConvergenceXXIII(1-2), 57-76.

Grace, A.P. & Gouthro, P.A. (2000). Using models of feminist pedagogies to think about issues and directions in graduate education for women students. Studies in Continuing Education. 22(1), 5-28.