Survey of french-language research on adult learning in Canada: 1997-2007

Abstract

This research was done by Claudie Solar and Nicole Anne Tremblay, who are both professors in the Psychopedagogy and Andragogy Department of the Faculty of Education Science at the Université de Montréal. The researchers worked in close collaboration with the Centre de documentation sur l’éducation des adultes et la condition féminine (CDÉACF) and received funding from the Adult Learning Knowledge Center (AdLKC) of the Canadian Council on Learning. The 77-page report summarizes the 227 adult learning research projects in French Canada published between 1997 and 2007, inclusive. The database was developed from the CDÉACF notes on adult education, training, and literacy, plus research found on the National Adult Literacy Database (NALD) and dissertations and theses gathered through PROQUEST. In order to be included in the analysis, the research had to relate to the research subject of the AdLKC, namely adult learning, and not come under the topic of other Knowledge Centers, such as health and workplace learning. This study is the first review of the adult learning research conducted in French Canada, and rounds out the work of the same nature done in English in 2006 for the Canadian Council on Learning and the work done the same year on research in French, this time on literacy.