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[jawnbc]

A wee bit of good news in the email today: my submission for an updated text on adult education in Canada has been accepted. Topic: queer adult education in Canada.

When I pitched it I wasn't sure it'd fly--not because of any unwillingness of my peers to include queer stuff. Rather, the book's size limitations meant squeezing something new in required it to be pretty special.

So I get to write what will arguably be the seminal piece on queer adult education in Canada? How frickin' kewl is that?

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[stoplabelingme.livejournal.com]

Tres cool!

So now when it comes to queers, you can say you wrote the book!

[jawnbc]

Well, the chapter anyway. . .

[zhenzhi.livejournal.com]

that is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cooooool!!!! excellent!! :-D

[jawnbc]

thanks!

[art-thirst.livejournal.com]

Having a doctorate helps. Even though I have a terminal degree, I'm still in a very difficult spot when it comes to getting published (written). When a studio degreed person gets published it usually means an exhibition, not writing a paper or a book. Independent scholars are usually Ph.D. candidates or post-doctorals. Can you sense my ongoing frustration?

I was accepted to present a paper at a conference two years ago but, had to provide my own transportation. Since I couldn't. I didn't go. Being an adjunct, the community college where I was teaching wouldn't send me. That's for fulltime professors.

[jawnbc]

I hear you, although all of my travel post-PhD has been self funded. As an international post-doc, my Aussie uni excluded me from its internal schemes.

But the PhD is invaluable, if scholarly production is important to you. But only if someone funds you--a self-funded PhD isn't usually worth much.

[carharttmo.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the good news! Now the fun begins!

[jawnbc]

thanks. now I gotta write the bugger!

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

So what exactly does that mean, queer adult ed? Adult ed where the students are queer? Queer teachers? Queer curriculum?

I used to do Adult Basic Ed (literacy) and it was frustrating that nobody seems to have written about people who didn't get basic education because they were out and harassed at school. We used to see that in about 15% of our clients. There was no research or guidelines or anythign out there, at least, at that time.

[jawnbc]

It means both queer-community specific work in ABE, community development and even HR. It will focus on the numerous pieces of adult education scholarship that are informed by queer theory, feminism, post-structuralism and other frameworks that problematize either homophobia or heterocentrism.

At risk/street youth will be included, since some of my research touches on that. But thanks for the reminder.

[quetzalcoatl.livejournal.com]

I think that answers my question.

[clauditorium.livejournal.com]

That is FUCKING AWESOME!! And I can't think of anyone better to do it.

[jawnbc]

Thanks!

[roybear.livejournal.com]

Not being the sharpest tool in the shed academically, I don't fully understand what this means, but I can tell its way cool. Congratulations John!