Reimagining Practice
Geragogy · Storytelling · Arts-based Pedagogy · Older Adult Learning
"To remember is to live again": Online storytelling as a geragogical strategy with older immigrants
Examines online storytelling as a teaching approach with older immigrant learners, exploring how narrative work mediates language learning, identity, and belonging in later life.
(Re)collecting and (re)turning to ourselves: Creative feminist and queer praxes with migrants in adult learning
Explores creative feminist and queer methodologies in adult learning contexts with migrants, centering embodied knowledge and collective meaning-making.
Unlocking creativity for adult language learning
Makes the case for creativity as a pedagogical principle in adult language education, drawing on community-based program research with older learners.
They gave me back my power: Strengthening older immigrants' language learning through arts-based activities
Investigates how arts-based educational activities — drama, storytelling, creative writing — strengthen language learning and restore a sense of agency among older immigrant adults.
Enhancing teaching English as an additional language through playfulness: Seniors' (Ethno) Drama Club in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Documents an ethnodrama program for older immigrant adults, examining how playfulness and dramatic engagement reshape language learning and community belonging.
"I Love to Write My Story": Storytelling and its role in seniors' language learning
An early study of biographical storytelling in older adult language classrooms, exploring how life writing supports language acquisition and learner identity.
Language teaching for intercultural communication: Problematizing essentialism, highlighting power, and advocating for social justice
Critiques essentialist approaches to intercultural communication in language teaching, proposing a justice-oriented framework that foregrounds power and structural inequality.
Loud silence: Older adults' literacies in Canadian policy discourse
Analyzes how Canadian policy discourse constructs — and renders invisible — older adults as literacy learners, and what this means for educational equity and program design.
Curriculum co-design with older immigrant language learners: A Collaborative Creative Inquiry
Documents a participatory curriculum co-design process with older immigrant learners, examining what happens when learners are treated as co-researchers and curriculum makers.
Online Spaces
Digital Literacies · Infodemic · Poetry Platforms · Technology and Aging
Immigrant seniors' multiliteracies at a crossroad: pandemic, infodemic, and digital competencies
Examines how older immigrant adults navigated overlapping crises — COVID-19, misinformation, and digital exclusion — and what community-based digital literacy support made possible.
Partnering with older adults for digital research tool development: Demystifying an engaged research process
Reflects on the process of co-developing digital research tools with older adult participants, challenging assumptions about who can contribute to research design.
Enhancing relationality through poetic engagement with PhoneMe: Transmodal contexts and interpretive agency
Explores how the PhoneMe digital poetry platform generates relational learning and interpretive agency across diverse community contexts and modalities.
PhoneMe Poetry: Mapping community in the digital age
Introduces the PhoneMe project as a community literacy initiative, examining how digital poetry creation maps and activates community belonging in urban spaces.
CLICK [Comic panel]
A creative research output presenting ideas about digital literacy, older adults, and information access through the form of a comic panel.
Learning and Advocacy
Healthy Aging · Policy · Peer Learning · Lifecourse
Sustainable learning ecosystems in later life: A critical realist perspective
Proposes a critical realist framework for understanding learning in later life, examining the structural conditions that enable or constrain educational participation among older adults.
Learning in the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing: Insights from Canada and the UK
Compares community-based learning initiatives in Canada and the UK through the lens of the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing, examining what policy frameworks make visible and what they miss.
Discursive construction of age in older immigrants' narrations of language learning
Analyses how older immigrants narrate their own aging and language learning, examining the discursive strategies they use to navigate ageist and linguicist assumptions.
Strengthening communities of practice through professional development: Lessons from a criminal justice system capacity building project in Guyana
Draws on a cross-sector capacity-building project to examine how professional development can strengthen communities of practice in justice and education contexts.
An insider view: Understanding volunteers' experiences within a peer-to-peer language learning program in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Examines the experiences of volunteer language facilitators in a peer-led community program, highlighting how peer learning structures redistribute educational power and knowledge.
Tears and laughter: Mobile training and poetry writing with older immigrant adults
Documents a mobile poetry writing program with older immigrants, exploring how creative expression in later life supports adaptation, resilience, and community connection.
Methods and Frameworks
Collaborative Creative Inquiry · Arts-based Research · Community-engaged Methods
Collaborative Creative Inquiry: A Framework for Radical Praxis in Social Sciences
A full methodological framework for arts-based, collaborative, and transdisciplinary research in the social sciences. Developed through years of community-based research practice across Canada and internationally.
Collaborative Creative Inquiry: A new approach to arts-informed transdisciplinary research
Introduces Collaborative Creative Inquiry as a distinct research methodology, drawing on the work of the ARTEM Research Collective to articulate its principles, practices, and applications.
(Re)Introducing Vygotsky's thought: From historical overview to contemporary psychology
Revisits Vygotsky's theoretical contributions in light of contemporary psychology and educational research, tracing their relevance for understanding learning as a social and cultural process.
Culture clubs in Canadian higher education: Examining membership diversity
Examines how cultural clubs in Canadian universities function as informal intercultural learning spaces, with attention to the tensions between inclusion and homogeneity in membership.