CASAE-AERC 2026 Program

Immigration 1501

Symposium

Symposium

Navigating Boundaries, Building Bridges: Adult Education Pathways for Immigrant and Non-Traditional Learners

Kashif Raza; Randolph Wimmer; Danielle Gardiner Milln; David Burns; Josephine Chan; Carolyn MacLaren

Adult Literacy 1505

Symposium

Symposium

Supporting a National Literacy Strategy: Researcher Insights and Considerations from the Adult Literacy SIG

Stacey Crooks; Paula Elias; Hannah Peters; Annie Luk; Miles Murphy; Jude Walker

Adult Learning & Work TBA

Paper

Paper

An Exploration of Korean Millennials’ Career Transitions

Yeonjoo Kim

Paper

Adult Learning for Climate Action and the Future of Work in Australia: A Capability Approach Analysis

Lamberthus J. Lokollo; Meytty Jeanly Pattikawa

Adult Basic Education in International Contexts TBA

Paper

Paper

Exploring Impacts of Moroccan Adult Literacy on Women’s Empowerment

Rabia Redouane

Paper

International Aid and Development: Transformative Learning for an Emerging Future in the Third Sector

Comfort Ninson

Paper

Revitalizing Non-Formal Education to Adress the Out-of-school Young Adult Women Challenges In Nigeria

Dare Amusa; Esther Prins

International & Global Perspectives TBA

Paper

Paper

Building Bridges of Transformation: Developing a model for the implementation of Recognition of Prior Learning at Community Education and Training Colleges in South Africa

Kaylianne Aploon-Zokufa; Natheem Hendricks

Paper

Encouraging Global Competencies and Transcultural Learning in Turbulent Times

Karen Magro

Paper

When Training Does Not Translate into Engagement: Institutional Mismatch and Learner Engagement in State-Led Vocational Training Programs in China

Bo Chang

Praxis & Social Transformation TBA

Paper

Paper

Considering Critical Praxis with Museum Practitioners

Mary Pinkoski

Paper

Relations of Reproductive and Revolutionary Praxis: Re-Reading Paula Allman through an Emphasis on Form

Sara Carpenter

Paper

Reimagining the Purpose of Education for Social Transformation

Sharmistha Barat; Jafar Iqbal; Astrid Hogmo

Environmental Learning & Climate Action TBA

Roundtable

Roundtable

Decolonizing Climate Action Through Islamic Teachings and Community Building

Maryam Gamar

Roundtable

Cultivating Adaptive Capacity: A Community of Practice Approach to Drought Education

Jill Zarestky; Lauren Vilen; Emily Lockhard; Retta Bruegger

Roundtable

Evaluation Training as a Pathway towards Research-Practice Partnerships in Nature-Based Programming

Silvia Terol; Jill Zarestky

Partnership & Immigration 1501

Symposium

Symposium

Partnership in the Field of Adult Learning and Education for Immigrants in Canada

Hongxia Shan; Jude Walker; Jiin Yoo; Kashif Reza; Afsaneh; Koyali Burman

Participatory Research & Collective Action 1505

Paper

Paper

Action ethnography’s potential for anti-oppressive research on learning about homelessness

Kathleen Forman

Paper

Mapping Collective Leadership Learning Through Institutional Ethnography: Women, Femme, and Non-Binary Entrepreneurial Collective

Sarah M. Ray

Paper

Building Bridges of Voice: A Critical Review of Photovoice and Translanguaging in Participatory Adult Education Research

Shohreh Shahrouyan

Explorations of Identity & Culture TBA

Paper

Paper

Imagining the Transnational Adoptee diasporic identity and global community

Bliss Wong

Paper

The Whole Person in the Academy: A New Framework of Becoming for Identity Transformation

Siyi Cheng

Paper

Navigating the First Year: Cultural Identity and Transition Among Southeast Asian Doctoral Students in U.S. Higher Education

Meytty Pattikawa; Jihee Hwang; Junghwan Kim

Arts-based and Community Adult education TBA

Paper

Paper

Arts-based and Alternative Research Strategies for Crossing Borders and Building Bridges with Community

Roula Kteily-Hawa; Emily Dobrich,; Sarah Flicker; Trevor Hart; Nona Abdallah; Khalil Rantissi,; Lissette Ochoa

Paper

Border-Crossings and Em(body)ed Knowledge: Movement Arts as Community Pedagogy in Adult Education

Dirk J. Rodricks; Annalissa Crisostomo; David Puvaneyswaran

Paper

Cultural Brushstrokes: Using Art to Cross Cultural Boundaries in Adult Education

Josie L. Andrews

Alternative Session TBA

Alternative

Alternative

When Strong Currents Meet: Witnessing and Cultivating the Conditions for Transformative Learning

Lindsay Cole; Alayna Paolini; Rob VanWynsberghe; Laura Kozak

Alternative Session TBA

Alternative

Alternative

Crossing Borders: Morsels from a Comic Poetic Inquiry

Gabriella Maestrini

AI & Algorithms in ALE TBA

Paper

Paper

Algorithmic Public Pedagogy as Border Practice: Learning, Language, and Power in the “TikTok Refugee” Migration to Xiaohongshu

Xun Ril Li

Paper

Narratives of Generative AI and the Graduate Labour Market

Alison Taylor; Kalli McIver

Paper

Reframing the Value of Adult Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Supporting Older Adults’ Digital Inclusion, Mental Well-being, and Social Participation

Yanbo Xie (Alex)

Bringing Together Research & Practice 1501

Paper

Paper

Imagination and Improvisation in the Pluriverse of Adult Education

Shauna Butterwick; Emily Booker; Amea Wilbur; Suzanne Smythe; Jude Walker

Paper

Silence and other forms of strategic ambiguity in AE research and practice

Katherine Entigar; Abarna Selvarajah

AI 1505

Symposium

Symposium

Navigating the AI Revolution in Adult Education

Dawn Hilton; Brad Hilton; Davin Knolton

Adult Learning & the Military TBA

Paper

Paper

Espoused and Experienced Military Culture: The Role of Informal Socialization during Basic Training

Marshall Gerbrandt

Paper

Faith as a North Star: How Post-9/11 Black Veterans Navigate Military-to-Civilian Transition Through Faith-Based Learning Communities

William Carpenter

Reimagining ALE in & for Canada TBA

Roundtable

Roundtable

Exploring the Potential of Folk Schools in Atlantic Canada

Chris Palmer

Roundtable

Reimagining Canada in Troubled Times: Transformative Learning as a Bridge to Democratic Practice

Patricia Gouthro; Susan Holloway

Alternative Session TBA

Alternative

Alternative

The Importance of Belonging in Adult Education: Interactive Strategies for Inclusive Practice

Rolanda Hardin

Alternative Session TBA

Alternative

Alternative

Come Publish with AEQ: A How-to for Practitioners and Emerging Scholars

Edith Gnanadass; Lisa merriweather; Charisse Gulosino; Dianne ramdell

Adult Learning in Unexpected Places TBA

Paper

Paper

Dark Tourism as Self-Directed Learning

Don Wright

Paper

Festivals as Sites of Learning: The San Pacho Feast and Its Role in Education and Political Resistance

Diana Sanchez; Kathy Sanford

The Arts for Community Transformation 1501

Paper

Paper

Crossing Borders: Public Sculptures and Community Engagement, A Case Study of Castlegar’s Sculpturewalk

Jennifer Cliff-Marks; Carole Roy

Paper

Reviving the Wang-OO: A Community-based Theatre Project Building Bridges between Elders and Young People in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda

Bonnie Fournier; Susan Sommerfeldt; Emily Dobrich; Stéphanie Caron-Roy; Roula Kteily-Hawa

Spaces & Institutions of Learning & Transformation 1505

Paper

Paper

Peer Tutoring in a Women’s Prison: Implications for Tutors’ Self-Perceptions and Experience of Incarceration

Esther Prins; Marcela Movit

Paper

Spatial Reflexivity in Adult Education Institutions: Architecture as an Agent of Accessibility, Inclusion, and Spatial Justice

Katrin Kraus

Indigenous Adult Education TBA

Paper

Paper

Balancing studies and life in an indigenous adult education setting

Jean-Pierre Mercier; Jo Anni Joncas; Diane Labelle; Brenda Ross-Jerome; Lorrain Nottaway; Tanu Lusignan

Paper

Towards a Relational Framework in Ecological Civilization Education in China: Insights from Confucianism and Daoism

Shihua Tan; Yu Guo

Podcasts & Videos in ALE TBA

Roundtable

Roundtable

Bridging Eras: Podcasts, Archival Videos, and the Future of Adult Education

Kyle Znamenak; Catherine Hansman; Anthony Adkisson

Alternative Session TBA

Alternative

Alternative

The Métis Jig as Embodied Adult Learning: Rhythm Intersection and Building Relationships

Sharon Jarvis

Ecofeminist Pedagogy TBA

Paper

Paper

Women Learning Liberation: Pan-African Ecofeminist Popular Educators Honouring Embodied Knowledge

Shirley Walters

Paper

Wayfinding Pedagogies: Women Seed Keepers and the Reclaiming of Public Life

Claudia Diaz-Diaz; Suyai Neculqueo

Alternative Session TBA

Alternative

Alternative

The Role of Dance, Theatre and Film in Critical Pedagogy & Solidarity Learning

Doris Rajan

ONLINE-GRAD 1501

Paper

Paper

Developing Scholars Through a Research Apprenticeship Model in an Online PhD Program

Laura Holyoke; Kyle Znamenak

Paper

Reflections on an Online Intercontinental Master’s Program in Adult Learning and Education

Colette February; Emily Dobrich

AS-1 1505

Alternative

Alternative

Nothing About Us Without Us: Building Bridges with Educator-Student Course Design

KJ Reed; Callum Rivoire; Jenna Sportak; Katie Bacon

CARE TBA

Roundtable

Roundtable

Expanding learning within learning health systems

Monique Walsh

Roundtable

Caring Means Sharing: How Caring Professionals Survive Trauma

Karin Sprow Forté

AI-R TBA

Roundtable

Roundtable

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Integrated Learning and Adult Education: Building Bridges across Communities and Contexts

Mekdes Abera

Roundtable

Toward A Posthumanist Adult Learning and Education in the Era of Generative AI: A Scenario-Based Learning Approach

Eunbi Sim; Youghyun Kim; Beixi Li

IMM-R TBA

Roundtable

Roundtable

Accent Reduction to Reflexivity: A Revised Learning Goal for Migrant Professionals

Vijay Ramjattan

Roundtable

Positionality of Diasporic Women: Voices from the Conflict-Affected Rohingya Community

Jarin Akther

AS-6 TBA

Alternative

Alternative

(Re)collecting and (re)turning to Ourselves: Creative Feminist and Queer Praxes in Adult Learning

Natalia Balystova; Katherine Entigar

F TBA

Paper

Paper

Comment diminuer les obstacles aux activités d'apprentissage des 16-24 ans en formation générale des adultes

Jocelyne Chevrier

Paper

Une théorique critique de l’éducation pour appréhender les établissements d’éducation des adultes dans une perspective de justice sociale

Jonathan Martel

Adult Education for Racial Justice TBA

Paper

Paper

Reclaiming Adult Learning for Social Change: Voice, Community, and Action in Anti Racism Education in Canada

Jingzhou Liu; Shibao Guo,; Sinela Jurkova

Paper

Roadblocks to Learning: The Experiences of Unhoused Black Men

Olumuyiwa Bamgbose

Paper

When Bridges Are Burned by Police Brutality: Adult Education as a Catalyst for Black Healing and Transformative Policing Reform

Sam Madesi

Adult Literacy Roundtables TBA

Roundtable

Roundtable

Economic returns to adult skills in Canada: Evidence from PIAAC

Yilin Pan

Roundtable

Towards Equitable Access of Ontario's Adult Literacy

Lisa Ambaye; Lisa Lozanski

Roundtable

What is Adult Literacy Education For? A Freirean and Biestan Inquiry into the Adult Literacy Movement in Canada and a Call to Action in Neoliberal Times

Miles Murphy

Immigration & Settlement TBA

Paper

Paper

"Our biggest shield has been each other": Refugee-background students narrating belonging in higher education

Ruth Parrish Sauder

Paper

Bridging the Gap: The Role of Settlement Services in Mediating Collective Learning for Immigrant Parents

Jiin Yoo

Paper

Relational English Learning and Community-Based Settlement in Sydney, Nova Scotia

J. Adam Perry; Susie Brigham

Autoethnography TBA

Symposium

Symposium

Crossing Practice, Self, and Possibility: Critical Self-Reflection, Autoethnography, and Portfolio Development in Adult Education

Carole Roy; Chrystal Murphy-James,; Michael Reid; Charlie Davidson; Shauna Butterwick (discussant)

Alternative Session TBA

Alternative

Alternative

The Story of Us: Building bridges and hopeful futures through collage-making

Ghazal Malik; Chanel Tsang

Partnership & Boundary Crossing TBA

Paper

Paper

Advancing Leadership among Underrepresented Adult Learners in STEM through a Cross-Institutional Research Partnership

Adam L McClain; Stephanie Sisco; Geleana D. Alston; Joshua C. Collins

Paper

Microcredentials as Boundary-Crossing Infrastructure Between Universities and Industry: National Reach from a Rural Continuing Education Unit

Melynda Thorpe

Paper

Negotiating Neutrality: Contradictions between Community Work and Governance in Brownfields Technical Assistance

Isaiah Zukowski

Parent Engagement TBA

Symposium

Symposium

Crossing the School-Home Border: Reconceptualizing Parent Engagement as Democratic Adult Learning and Community Organizing

Max Anthony Newman; Yan Guo; Jiin Yoo,; Bridget Murphy; Mayra Sarabia; Iyabo Anifowoshe

Alternative Session TBA

Alternative

Alternative

The Untapped Potential of Peer Learning in Professional Development

Carrie Malloy; Lisa Lozanski

A Focus on Adult Learners TBA

Paper

Paper

Crossing Language Borders: How Public Rules and Private Resources Shape Adult Learners’ Pathways

Jim Y Huang

Paper

How Poverty Simulations Affect Social Empathy in Adult Learners

Rebecca Davison

Paper

The Potential and Power of Adult Learning Opportunities in Unexpected Places: A case study of parent and caregiver learning in an Ontario EarlyON Child and Family Centre

Chanel Tsang

Transformative Learning & Theories of Adult Education TBA

Roundtable

Roundtable

Transformative Learning in The Ladder, A Lesbian Magazine

Lisa M Baumgartner

Roundtable

Transformative Learning on a Continuum: Revisiting the Disorienting Dilemma through Multidimensional Lenses

Natalia Bussard; Jude Walker; Dan Jordan

Roundtable

Deconstructing epistemic fragility: Advancing the theoretical framework

Erika O'Hara

Mentorship & Intergenerational Learning TBA

Roundtable

Roundtable

(Re)Membering Matter in Intergenerational Learning: From Inter- to Intra-generational Encounters

Younghyun Kim

Roundtable

An Academic Borderland: Deconstructing University Hierarchies through an Arts-Based Professor-Student Research Collective

Chase Thomson; Annalissa Crisostomo; Keith Cheng; Dirk J Rodricks

Community , Care & Partnerships TBA

Paper

Paper

Learning Feminist Asset-Based Community-Led Development through a Transnational Partnership

Wellington Sousa

Paper

Disciplining a Community, Professionalizing a Sector: Examining Australia’s NGO sector.

Genevieve Ritchie

Paper

Research Into Practice: Using Caring Conversations to Build Bridges in Complex Institutions

Morgan Westcott

Alternative Session TBA

Alternative

Alternative

The Benefits and Risks of Welcome Practices

Spring Gillard; Shauna Butterwick

Alternative Session TBA

Alternative

Alternative

Experiential Learning: Using Monopoly to Teach About Social Justice

Dr. Monica Himes; Rebecca Davison

Alternative Session TBA

Alternative

Alternative

Persona-making in Adult Education

Nic Dickson

Mobility & Learning Across Borders TBA

RoundtablePaper

Roundtable

Learning Across Borders: Arts-Based Autoethnography as Lifelong Adult Learning in Contexts of Migration

Nurgul Balac

Paper

Epistemological Regionalism and the Failure of Mobility

Ralf St. Clair

Paper

Peripheral Citizenship: Chinese Immigrants Negotiating Legitimate Ways of Democratic Participation through Quotidian Activisms across Borders

Ling Lei; Shibao Guo

Care, Trauma and Possibility TBA

Roundtable

Roundtable

Building Collective Capacity Through Crisis-Informed Financial Literacy: Connecting Research with Practice to Cultivate Communities of Learning and Hope

Sandra Roussel

Roundtable

Educating for the End in Rural Nova Scotia: Learning How to Die in Place at Home

Emily Mansour-Hemlow

Roundtable

Trauma-Informed and Care-Based Pedagogy in Adult Education: Synthesizing Faculty and Learner Perspectives

Brianna Strumm; Amea Wilbur,; Elizabeth Sallos

Sustainability & Climate Justice TBA

PaperRoundtable

Paper

Pre-service Teachers’ Sustainability Competencies Development through the Social Production of Space: A Qualitative Case Study

Yijing Lyu

Paper

Relationships as Resistance: Transformative Adult Learning in the Climate Justice Movement

Sheena Cameron

Roundtable

A Scoping Review of Informal and Nonformal Adult Environmental and Sustainability Education Research: Relevance and Implications for the Research Community

Lauren Vilen

Online & Hybrid Learning TBA

Paper

Paper

Andragogy in the age of online learning: Rethinking how the technology effects community

Amanda Benjamin; Marshall Gerbrandt; Kendra Haines

Paper

Building Bridges in Synchronous Hybrid Learning Spaces – Cross-sectoral insights into Educators’ Experiences and Negotiation Practices of Ruptures in Adult and Higher Education

Lisa Breitschwerdt; Christina Hümmer; Marie Rathmann

Paper

The Human MOSAIC: Connection and Community as Online Learning Ecosystem Health in Adult Graduate Education

Justin Pettijohn

Alternative Session TBA

Alternative

Alternative

Introduction to the Journals of Adult Education

Sara Carpenter; Davin Carr-Chellman; Adam McClain; Adam Perry; Bonnie Slade; Jill Zarestky

Methodologies for Social Justice TBA

Paper

Paper

Refusing Silence: Collaborative Autoethnography on Navigating Race, Gender, and Resistance in Higher Education

Mitsunori Misawa

Paper

The Transformative Potential of Embodied Journaling in Critical Social Justice Education

Stephanie Glick; Micah Favel; Nina Gaind; Arianna Valentino

International Perspectives on Immigration TBA

Paper

Paper

Program Planning in Adult Education for Migrant Integration in Korea: A Diagnostic Inquiry into a Corporate Social Value Initiative

Romee Lee; Sukki Kong

Paper

Researching Nonformal Learning Places as a Possibility for Supporting the Social Participation of Migrants in Germany

Christiane Hof

Decolonizing Learning TBA

Paper

Paper

Decolonization in Adult Education: A Scoping Review Through East Asian and AsianCrit Perspectives

Hye-Su Kuk; Eunbi Sim

Paper

Teaching Canadian Citizenship on Unceded Land: Educators and the Downloading of Reconciliation

Lisa Ruth Brunner

Alternative Session TBA

Alternative

Alternative

Critical Discourse: Mapping the Terrain of Modern Adult Education

Inna Kerlin

Alternative Session TBA

Alternative

Alternative

Circles of Influence: Practicing Organizational Justice With and For Adult Learners

Makena Neal; Alicia Jenner; Patricia Stewart

Alternative Session TBA

Alternative

Alternative

Embodied Wisdom in Action: Harnessing Living Experience to Guide Service and Learning

Elizabeth Bishop

Alternative Session TBA

Alternative

Alternative

Transformational Change: Identity, Self-Image, and Adult Learning in Times of Transition

Susan A. McDonald

Transnational Mobility TBA

Symposium

Symposium

Beyond Borders: Researching Transnational Mobility and Adult Education

Shibao Guo; Hongxia Shan, ,; Susie Brigham; Yan Guo

Global Feminist Adult Education TBA

Symposium

Symposium

Feminist Adult Education Across Contexts: Exploring Theory and Practice in Different Spaces, Places and Communities

Emily Dobrich; Shauna Butterwick; Catherine Etmanski; Shirley Walters; Robin Sarkar; Swati Krishnan; Racheal Kalaba; Deepti Mahajan

Alternative Session TBA

Alternative

Alternative

A Decolonial Learning Workshop Using Erasure Poetry

Gitanjaly Chhabra; Kay Hare

Adult Education & Health TBA

Symposium

Symposium

Adult Education in Health Contexts: Relational Learning, Hidden Labour, and Boundary-Crossing Work

Jonathan Easey; Jude Walker; Carrie Krekoski; Penny Hatzimanolakis

Social Movement Learning TBA

Paper

Paper

From Fandom to Civic Agency: Social Movement Learning among K-pop Fandom at South Korea’s ‘Light Revolution’

Kwankyeung Kwak; Joon Heo

Paper

Social Change Creativity as a Useful Complement to Social Movement Learning

Catherine Etmanski; Amy Zidulka

Feminist Organizations & Pedagogies TBA

Roundtable

Roundtable

“Where Hope Blooms: Appreciative Inquiry Approach Case Study into Educational Practices of Feminist Organizations

Joanna Stewart

Policy in Canada, US & Europe TBA

Paper

Paper

Pan-Canadian Adult Education Policy Development? Lessons from a European Union Case Study

Robert McGray; Marie Ritche

Paper

Philosophies, Policies, and Practices: Navigating Lifelong Learning Systems in the U.S. and Europe

Christy Rhodes; Judith Alamprese