Dr. Jude Walker

“It is our ontological vocation to become more fully human” - Paulo Freire.
My interest in adult education was sparked almost twenty years ago while living in Latin America and then through exposure to the ideas of Paulo Freire during my undergraduate degree. It is the transformative potential of adult education that led me to commit my life to the field, first as an educator of adults in community and school settings, and then in teaching and conducting research within the university. I am particularly interested in the intersection of the macro and micro in adult and higher education education. My research thus far has focused on: policy in adult literacy and lifelong learning; higher education reform; and the scholarship of teaching and learning within health sciences education. I seek to understand the drivers and characteristics of educational reform and how policy shapes, and is mediated by, practice. I have learned much through travel, having lived in 7 different countries (Canada, US, Argentina, New Zealand, UK, Malawi and Uganda) and visiting over 50 additional countries. I am a kiwi at heart but an adopted canuck; long live the kiwi and the moose!