Aesthetic Practices and Adult Education

Darlene E. Clover is a Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada. Her research and teaching areas include community leadership and feminist arts-based adult education and research. Darlene’s current study focuses on the educational philosophies and practices of librarians and art gallery and museum educators in Canada, Scotland and England. Her recent edited book (with K. Sanford) is entitled: Lifelong learning and aesthetic cultural practice in the contemporary university: International Perspectives.

Kathy Sanford is a Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Victoria, Canada. Her literacy research and teaching interests include issues of gender, literacy, assessment, and popular culture/new media. She has been actively involved in issues related to digital and multimodal literacies, teacher education and the development of professional electronic portfolios. Recent research interests include exploring alternative sites such as libraries, museums, art galleries, and archives.

Shauna Butterwick is an Assistant Professor of Adult Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She brings a feminist orientation to her teaching and community-based research practice. Shauna uses various creative expressive arts, to explore the structural dimensions and lived experience of oppression, resistance and liberation. She is currently partnering with the Philippine Women’s Centre in British Columbia to explore their use of visual and performative arts in activism. She has written extensively on women and coalition building through popular theatre.