Research
Interests
- adult
education, adult and lifelong
learning, critical pedagogy and
knowledge production
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sustainability
-
globalization
-
rural communities / rural women
-
organic agriculture
-
food
-
the civil commons and the social
economy
Courses
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AEC1100 Outline of Adult Education,
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AEC3104 Political Economy of Adult
Education
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AEC1131 Environmental Adult Education
Departmental
Responsibilities
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OISE Coordinator, Centre for Environment,
University of Toronto
Other
Activities
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Member, Expert Committee on Organic
Agriculture
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Consulting Editor, Canadian Journal
for the Study of Adult Education
Publications
Books
Sumner,
Jennifer. 2007/2005. Sustainability
and the Civil Commons: Rural Communities
in the Age of Globalization. University
of Toronto Press.
Articles
in Refereed Journals
Mair,
Heather, Jennifer Sumner and Leahora
Rotteau (forthcoming 2008). “The
Politics of Eating: Food Practices
as Critically Reflective Leisure.”
Leisure/Loisir.
Sumner,
Jennifer (forthcoming 2008). “From
Academic Imperialism to the Civil
Commons: Institutional Possibilities
for Responding to the United Nations
Decade of Education for Sustainable
Development.” Interchange:
A Quarterly Review of Education.
Sumner,
Jennifer. 2005. “Small is
Beautiful: The Responses of Women
Organic Farmers to the Crisis in
Agriculture.” Canadian Woman
Studies, Special Issue on Rural
Women in Canada, Vol. 24, No 4,
pp. 78-84.
Sumner,
Jennifer. 2005. “Value Wars
in the New Periphery: Sustainability,
Rural Communities and Agriculture.”
Agriculture and Human Values, Vol.
22, No. 3, pp. 303-312.
Sumner,
Jennifer. 2003. “Visions of
Sustainability: Women Organic Farmers
and Rural Development.” Canadian
Woman Studies, Vol. 23, Nos. 1 &
2, pp. 146-150.
Sumner,
Jennifer. 2003. “Learning
Our Way In: Sustainable Learning
and the Civil Commons.” Convergence,
Vol. XXXVI, No. 1, pp. 18-28.
Sumner,
Jennifer. 2003. “Relations
of Suspicion: Critical Theory and
Interdisciplinary Research.”
History of Intellectual Culture,
Vol. 3, No. 1, Special Issue: “Free
Space: Reconsidering Interdisciplinary
Theory and Practice.” Available
at: http://www.ucalgary.ca/hic/index.html
Sumner,
Jennifer. 2001. “Serving the
System: The Debate Continues.”
Open Learning. Vol. 16, No. 1, pp.
94-97.
Sumner,
Jennifer. 2000. “Serving the
System: A Critical History of Distance
Education.” Open Learning.
Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 267-285.
Sumner,
Jennifer. 2000. “Community
Sustainability and Adult Education:
Learning to Build Civil Capital
and Resist Corporate Globalization.”
Australian Journal of Adult and
Community Education. Vol. 40, No.2,
pp. 53-65.
Sumner,
Jennifer. 1999. “Global Vision
or Corporate Nightmare? The Privatization
of Adult Education in the New Millennium.”
The Canadian Journal for the Study
of Adult Education. Vol. 13, No.
2, pp. 73-85.
Chapters
in Books
Clark,
E. Ann and Jennifer Sumner (forthcoming).
“Lessons in Sustainability
from Organic Farmers in Ontario,
Canada.” In Steve Gliessman,
Martha Rosemeyer, and Sean Swezey,
Making the Conversion to Sustainable
Agriculture: Principles, Processes
and Practices. Boca Raton, Florida:
CRC Press.
Sumner,
Jennifer. (forthcoming). “Keeping
the Commons in Academic Culture:
Protecting the Knowledge Commons
from the Enclosure of the Knowledge
Economy.” In Adrienne S. Chan
and Donald Fisher (eds.), Transformation
of Academic Culture: Capital Accumulation
and International Competitiveness.
Vancouver: UBC Press.
Sumner,
Jennifer. 2006. “From the
Knowledge Economy to the Knowledge
Commons: Resisting the Commodification
of Knowledge.” In Gordon Laxer
and Dennis Soron (eds.), Not For
Sale: Decommodifying Public Life.
Toronto: Broadview Press, pp. 203-217.
Sumner,
Jennifer. 2004. “The Impact
of Corporate Globalization on Women’s
Access to Education.” In Mina
Singh (ed.), Challenges of Globalization,
Geneva: International Federation
of University Women, pp. 37-51.
Sumner,
Jennifer. 2003. “Environmental
Adult Education and Community Sustainability.”
In Lilian H. Hill and Darlene E.
Clover (eds.), Environmental Adult
Education: Issues and Concerns.
New Directions for Adult and Continuing
Education, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
Publishers, pp. 39-45.
Sumner,
Jennifer. 2003. “The New World
Order and the Destruction of Public
Education: The Case of Canada.”
In Gordana Yovanovich (ed.), The
New World Order: Corporate Agenda
and Parallel Reality. Montreal/Kingston:
McGill-Queen’s Press, pp.
106-122.
Sumner,
Jennifer. 2002. “Dumbing Down
Distance Education: The Corporate
Agenda and the End of Quality.”
In Missing Pieces III: An Alternative
Guide to Canadian Post-Secondary
Education, Erika Shaker and Denise
Doherty-Delorme (eds.) Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives,
March, pp. 99-103.
Sumner,
Jennifer. 2001. “The Impact
of the Restructuring of Higher Education
on Rural Communities.” In
Missing Pieces II: An Alternative
Guide to Canadian Post-Secondary
Education, Erika Shaker and Denise
Doherty-Delorme (eds.) Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives,
January, pp. 57-62.
Encyclopedia
Articles
McMurtry,
John and Jennifer Sumner (forthcoming).
“Greenpeace.” In The
Oxford Encyclopedia of Peace. Toronto:
Oxford University Press.
Sumner,
Jennifer. 2005. “Human Capital
Theory.” In The Encyclopedia
of Adult Education, Leona English
(ed.), New York: Palgrave Macmillan
Publishers, pp. 286-290.
Sumner,
Jennifer. 2005. “Social Justice.”
In The Encyclopedia of Adult Education,
Leona English (ed.), New York: Palgrave
Macmillan Publishers, pp. 580-584.
Links
Annual
Conference for Social Research in
Organic Agriculture
http://www.oacc.info/ResearchDatabase/res_socsci_welcome.asp
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