The thesis offers a post hoc account of three pieces of research relating to women's adult education which were camed out by the author over a penod of about fifteen years. In the process the thesis engages with a number of themes and issues in and around feminist theory and practite and adult education theory and practice. Radical traditions in adult education - particularly femimst-inspired traditions - are examined as spaces for the democratic production of "really useful knowledge". Changing meanings of feminist research and radical adult education are explored, as is the relationship between abstract knowledge and everyday knowledge. Developments in feminist epistemology are drawn on and related to a social justice agenda for adult education Through a critique of my own practice. I suggest that feminists and adult educators are well-placed to pursue a democratising project geared to including previously excluded groups in the production of legitimated knowledge. The thesis argues that we need to develop an understanding of our practices which combines historical, contextual understandings with an appreciation of what changed social and cultural conditions mean for the pursuit of any democratic knowledge-producing project.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Regent College, 1987. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-157).

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- McMaster University, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 191-210). Also available via World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Carleton University, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 378-389). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Carleton University, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-161). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.) - Carleton University, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-111). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1993. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: JoAnne Kleifgen. Dissertation Committee: Clifford Hill. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-144).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Regent College, 1987. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-157).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, School of Historical Studies, 2009. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 279-352)

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xv, 201 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-201). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center