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Prof. Peter Mayo, from the University of Malta’s Department of Education Studies, has just been awarded the prestigous 2013 C. Houle Award together with Prof. Leona English, from the St Francis Xavier University, Canada for the book they co-authored titled Learning with Adults. A Critical Pedagogical Introduction.
The award, widely regarded as the most important for literature on adult education in the English-speaking world, is awarded by the American Association for Adult Continuing Education (AAACE) and will be presented during an AAACE conference that is taking place in Kentucky, the US, in November.
Published by Sense in 2012, Learning with Adults A Critical Pedagogical Introduction, is a standard text on university courses in the field in various places in Canada and the US.
It has recently also been published in Spanish and has already gained favourable reviews in such journals as the International Journal of Lifelong Education. Copies of the original English version are on sale at the University campus bookstore.
Both authors worked assiduously on this volume through electronic networking. Annemarie Mayo (architect) provided the design for the front cover based on a motif from the World Social Forum in Kenya.
Prof. English, a well-known figure in the North American adult education field, has produced numerous books and papers, including her most recent book Adult Education and Health, published by the University of Toronto Press.
Among other things, she has also written a book on spirituality in adult education (with Tara Fenwick and Jim Parsons) and edited the 2005 International Encyclopedia of Adult Continuing Education for Palgrave-Macmillan. She is Professor at St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, which also houses the Coady Institute, a prestigious adult education centre.
Prof. Mayo is the author of numerous books and papers on politics, sociology, culture and education, mainly published interationally.
His latest books are Politics of Indignation (Zero Books, 2012) and Echoes from Freire for a critically engaged pedagogy (Bloomsbury, 2013). He is also a frequent keynote speaker at international conferences.