Adult Learning Academics
Explore our academics in Adult Learning and their areas of research expertise
![Colleen Kawalilak - Specialization Chair](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2024-04/colleen-kawalilak.jpg?itok=_v7JHEKr)
Colleen Kawalilak - Specialization Chair
- Adult education and community development
- Comparative and international education
- Diversity
- Organizational well-being
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Olive Chapman
- Mathematics education
- Mathematical problem solving
- Mathematics classroom inquiry-based discourse for mathematical thinking
- Mathematics students' sense-making of mathematics
- Mathematics teacher thinking, knowledge and learning/education
![Patricia Danyluk](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2022-11/patricia-danyluk.jpg?itok=UzMIRaHd)
Patricia Danyluk
- Teacher education
- Adult education
- Aboriginal education
- Practicum
- Placement partnerships
![Shibao Guo](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-09/ShibaoGuo.jpg?itok=IVovEIm-)
Shibao Guo
- Adult education and community development
- Chinese immigrants in Canada
- Citizenship and immigration
- Comparative and international education
- Ethnic relations in Canada
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Catherine Odora Hoppers
![Kaela Jubas](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-09/KaelaJubas_0.jpg?itok=V4X771SH)
Kaela Jubas
- Adult education and community development
- Adult learning
- Comparative and international education
- Cultural studies
- Feminist theory/research
![Theodora Kapoyannis](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2023-04/theodora-kapoyannis.jpeg?itok=z_j5hUoM)
Theodora Kapoyannis
- Adult learning
- Diversity
- Experiential Learning
- Leadership development
- Practicum and Preservice Education
![Yvonne Poitras Pratt](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2024-04/yvonne-poitras-pratt.jpg?itok=204BixNa)
Yvonne Poitras Pratt
- Aboriginal education
- Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Relations in Canada
- Adult education and community development
- Arts education
- Collaborative research methods
![H. Douglas Sewell](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-09/DougSewell.jpg?itok=xRvVKU_r)
H. Douglas Sewell
- Academic and Intellectual Engagement
- English as a Foriegn Language (EFL)
- Post-secondary Student Learning and Development
- Teacher Education
- Language Assessment
![Marlon Simmons](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-06/MarlonSimmons.jpg?itok=tfFsPv5P)
Marlon Simmons
- Sociology of education
- Qualitative research
- Discourse analysis
- Diaspora and cultural studies
- Decolonial Thought