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The University of British Columbia
- a place of mind
- Faculty of Education
- Department of Educational Studies
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Books
Nathan, D., Kelkar, G. & Walter, P. (Eds.) (2004). Globalization and Indigenous Peoples in Asia: Changing the Local-Global Interface. New Delhi, London and Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications. http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book227258/readership#tabview=toc
Kelkar, G., Nathan, D. & Walter, P. (Eds.) (2003). Patriarchy at Odds: Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia. New Delhi, London and Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications. http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book226115/toc
Journal Articles
Reimer, J.K. & Walter, P. (in press). How do you know it when you see it? Community-based ecotourism in the Cardamom Mountains of southwestern Cambodia, Tourism Management. 25 April 2012. Advance online publication. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261517712000659
Walter, P. (2011). Dead wolves, dead birds and dead trees: Catalysts for transformative learning in the making of scientist-environmentalists Adult Education Quarterly. 21 October 2011. Advance online publication. http://aeq.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/10/21/0741713611426348.abstract
Walter, P. & Reimer, J.K. (2011). The ‘ecotourism curriculum’ and visitor learning in community-based ecotourism: case studies from Thailand and Cambodia. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. 24 October 2011. Advance online publication. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10941665.2011.627930
Walter, P. (2011). Gender analysis in community-based ecotourism. Tourism Recreation Research 36(2), 159-168. http://www.trrworld.org/article.php?aid=507&year=2011&vol=36&issue=2
Tran, L.T. & Walter, P. (2010). National unity and ethnic identity in a Vietnamese university. Comparative Education Review 54(4), 483-511. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/654831
Walter, P. (2009). Local knowledge and adult learning in environmental adult education: community-based ecotourism in southern Thailand. International Journal of Lifelong Education 28(4), 513-532. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02601370903031363
Walter, P. (2009). Philosophies of adult environmental education. Adult Education Quarterly 60(1), 3-25. http://aeq.sagepub.com/content/60/1/3.short?rss=1&ssource=mfc
Walter, P. (2009). Environmental learning and education in marine wildlife ecotourism. Journal of Adult Learning Aotearoa New Zealand 37(2), 72-89
Walter, P. (2007). Activist forest monks, adult learning and the Buddhist environmental movement in Thailand. International Journal of Lifelong Education 26(3), 248-269. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02601370701362333
Walter, P. (2007). Adult Learning in New Social Movements: Environmental Protest and the Struggle for the Clayoquot Sound Rainforest. Adult Education Quarterly 57(3), 329-345. http://aeq.sagepub.com/content/57/3/248.abstract
Walter, P. (2005). Literacy practices in development: an ethnographic study of women in Northeastern Thailand. Studies in the Education of Adults 37(1), 63-77.
Walter, P. (2004). Through a gender lens: Explaining Northeastern Thai women's participation in adult literacy education. International Journal of Lifelong Education 23(5), 423-441. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/026037042000293407
Walter, P. (2004). (book chapter) Tourism and forest management among the Hani in Xishuangbanna, China. In Dev Nathan, Govind Kelkar and Pierre Walter (eds.) Globalization and Indigenous Peoples in Asia: Changing the Local-Global Interface (pp. 207-224). New Delhi, London and Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book227258/readership#tabview=toc
Fleming, D. & Walter, P. (2004). Linking teacher professionalism and learner autonomy through experiential learning and task design. TESL Canada Journal 22, 58-72.
Walter, P. (2003). Literacy, imagined nations and imperialism: Frontier College and the construction of British Canada, 1899-1933. Adult Education Quarterly 54(1), 42-58. http://aeq.sagepub.com/content/54/1/42.refs
Walter, P. (2003). Adult literacy education on the Canadian frontier. Adult Basic Education 13(1), 3-18. http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/9537397/adult-literacy-education-canadian-frontier
Walter, P. (2002). Adult literacy education and development in Thailand: An historical analysis of policies and programs from the 1930s to the present. International Journal of Lifelong Education 21(2), 79-98. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02601370110111664
Walter, P. & Wannitikul, G. (2002). Engendering economic valuation of the environment. Gender, Technology and Development 6(3), 339-353. http://gtd.sagepub.com/content/6/3/339.abstract
Walter, P. (2001). The restructuring of academia. Adult Education Quarterly 52(1), 70-77. http://aeq.sagepub.com/content/52/1/70.extract
Recent Conference Papers
2011 Walter, P. Cultural Survival, Revival and Ethno-pilfering: Case Studies of Community-based Ecotourism in Southeast Asia. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 12-16, 2011, Seattle.
2011 Walter, P. Catalysts for Transformative Learning in the Making of Scientist-Environmentalists: A Consideration of the Lives of Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and David Suzuki. AERC and CASAE/ACÉÉA Joint Conference 2011, June 9-12, 2011, Toronto.
2011 Tran, L., Reimer, K. & Walter, P. Adult Learning in Community-based Ecotourism: A Comparative Study of Projects in Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. CIES 2011: the 55th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society, May 1-5, 2011, Montréal.
2011 Shauna Butterwick, S., Chovanec, D. Palacios, C. Rubenson, K. & Walter, P. Learning and Knowledge Production in Social Movement Learning: Different Lenses, Different Agendas, Different Knowledge Claims. AERC and CASAE/ACÉÉA Joint Conference 2011, June 9-12, 2011, Toronto.
2010 Walter, P. Adult Learning in Community-based Ecotourism. 51st Annual Adult Education Research Conference (AERC) June 4-6, 2010, Sacramento, California.
2010 Walter, P. Community Service Learning: Perspectives from Adult Education. Western Region Research Conference on the Education of Adults. June 3-5, 2010. College of Continuing Education, University of California, Sacramento, CA.
2009 Walter, P. Adult learning in ecotourism: The current state of research. 50th Annual Adult Education Research Conference May 28-30, National Louis University, Chicago.
2009 Walter, P. Environmental learning in community-based ecotourism. North American Association of Environmental Education Research Symposium, 36th Annual Conference, October 7-9, 2009, Portland, Oregon (poster).
2009 Walter, P. Watching whales, dolphins, turtles and fish: Environmental learning in marine wildlife ecotourism. Western Region Research Conference on the Education of Adults, October 23-25, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
2007 Walter, P. Catalysts for collective conscientization in environmental adult education: Mr. Floatie, tree squatting and Save-our-Surfers. Joint International Adult Education Research Conference and the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, June 6-9, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
2007 Walter, P. Philosophical foundations of Adult Environmental Education. Western Region Research Conference on the Education of Adults, Oct. 12-14, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington.
2007 Walter, P. & Fenwick, T. (2007). Educating for ecological responsibility: symbols and signs as mobilising strategies in public arenas. ESREA 5th European Research Conference: Adult Learning and the Challenges of Social and Cultural Diversity, Sept 20-23, Seville, Spain.
Major Research Projects & Grants
Smaller Research Projects & Grants
Linh Thuy Tran, PhD. Community-based Ecotourism as a Site of Transformative Learning in Adult Environmental Education. Educational Policy Studies. (current).
Kila Reimer, PhD. Local Interrogation of Educational Globalization: Exploring Community Negotiation of Transnational Influences on Primary Education in Cambodia. Educational Policy Studies. (current)
Hiroko Hara, PhD. Practicing Transnational Citizenship with Digital Media:Case Studies of Cambodian Diasporic Communities. Educational Policy Studies. w/ Jennifer Chan. (current).
Tara Gibb, PhD. Regulating Employment Participation of Immigrants in Canada: The Role of Adult Additional Language Education Policy. Educational Policy Studies. w/ Tara Fenwick, University of Stirling. (current).
Carolina Palacios, PhD. 2011. Social Movements as Learning Communities: Chilean Exiles, Knowledge Production and the Solidarity Movement. Educational Policy Studies. https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/37956?show=full
Cindy Hanson, PhD. 2009. Toward Transformative Learning and a Transnational Feminist Pedagogy: Experiences of Activist-Facilitators Working in Development. Educational Policy Studies. https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/7103
David Jele, PhD, 2005. Political Economy of Literacy in Development: A Case Study of Educational Policy in Swaziland. Educational Policy Studies. w/ Kjell Rubenson. https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/17180
Elizabeth Henry, MA. Transformative Place-based Learning. Adult Education. (current).
Anahita Abbas-Nejad-Konjin, MA. The Enterprise of Female Iranian Engineers in Canada. Society, Culture and Politics in Education. (current).
Koyali Burman, MA. 2007. Towards a Gender-Sensitive Model for Program Planning in Distance Education for Development. Adult Education. https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/31446
Hiroko Hara, MA, 2006. Diasporic and Transnational Notions of Belonging: A Case Study of Cambodians in Japan. Feminist Approaches to Social Justice in Education. https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/17915
Linh Thuy Tran, MA, 2006. Contested Imagined Communities: Higher Education for Ethnic Minority Students in Vietnam. Higher Education. https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/31285
Carolina Palacios, MA, 2004. Democracy and Non-violent Structural Change: A Critical Inquiry into the Concept of Civic Society and its Relationships with Adult Learning. Adult Education. https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/16207
Mee Lain Ling, MA, 2004. Methodology of Decolonizing Gender and International Development: A View from China. Feminist Approaches to Social Justice in Education. https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/16318?show=full
Fiona Stevenson, MEd. 2011. What is Culture Anyway?: Looking Back on a Workshop Design Experience. Adult Education. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/36914
Madeleine Csillag-Wong, MEd. 2007. Solutions From Within: Addressing Workload Concerns of Registered Nurses on a Subacute Medical/ Rehabilitation Unit at a British Columbia Community Hospital. Adult Education.
Jacqueline Quigley, MEd, 2006. A Learning Journey: Reflections of a Prison Educator. Adult Education.
Cindy Bouvet, MEd, 2005. Challenging Normal: Cycling in The Big Ride Across America: A Meaning-Making Journey. Adult Education.
Lonnie McGuinn, MEd, 2004. Destabilizing The 'Intellectual:' Eurocentrism, Resistance & Sites Of Possibility. Feminist Approaches to Social Justice in Education.
Amea Wilbur, MEd, 2004. Re-Visioning A Tutor-Training Manual for Live-In Caregivers In Vancouver. Feminist Approaches to Social Justice in Education.
Bruce VanGroenigen, MEd, 2003. Turning the Tables: A Call to Introduce Problem-Based Learning in Technical Education. Adult Education.
Reyla Lopez, MEd, 2003. Women’s Empowerment: A Case Study of a Poverty Reduction Project in Rural China. Adult Education.
