Education

Doctor of Philosophy. Adult Education. University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (1992-1995)
Doctor of Education. Religion & Education.Teachers College, Columbia University
Master of Religious Education. University of St. Michael's College & Univ. of Toronto
Bachelor of Arts. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Religious Studies, English
Bachelor of Education. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Secondary Education

Employment

July, 1996- 2015 Professor of Adult Education, St. Francis Xavier University.
August 2015-Present Head of Publications at UNESCO Institute of Lifelong Learning (UIL), Hamberg, Germany
Dr. Leona English has had a long career in various aspects of education -- teaching, research, curriculum development, administration and publishing. She is presently Head of Publications at UNESCO Institute of Lifelong Learning (UIL), the global leader in adult education. UIL publishes research, reports, books, journals and practitioner publications and sets the course for adult education research and practice.

Awards and Honors

Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE)

American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE)

Member of Selection Committee for the Cyril O. Houle Award for Best Adult Education Book (1998, 2005, 2014)
Co-chair of Intercultural SIG
Member of Commission of Professors of Adult Education

Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education (APRRE)

Chair of Publications Committee (2003-2006)
Chair of Task Force on Adult Education (2000-2001)
Call for Papers Committee (2000-2002) (Chair for 2005-2007)
Editorial Review Committee (2000-2002)
Program Committee, APPRRE (2005)

National Committee Member

SSHRC Committee Member, Connections Grants (2013)
SSHRC Committee Member, Committee 17 (Education) (2001-2002)
Canadian Council on Learning (Gender and Learning Team Leader) (2005-2006)
CFHSC, Aid to Scholarly Publications Committee, Member (2009-2012)
Member, Catherine Donnolly Foundation, Toronto (2008-2011)

Publications

Books

English, L. M., & Mayo, P. (2012). Learning with adults: A critical pedagogical introduction. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
English, L. M. (Ed.). (2012). Adult education and health. University of Toronto Press.
English, L. M. (Ed.). (2005). International encyclopedia of adult education. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
English, L. M. et al. (2003). Spirituality in adult education and training. Malabar, FL: Krieger.
English, L. M., & Gillen, M.A. (Eds.). (2000). Addressing the spiritual dimensions of adult learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Book chapters

English, L. M. (2012). For whose purposes? Examining the spirituality agenda in adult education. In J. Groen, D. Coholic, & J. R. Graham (Eds.), Spirituality in social work and education: Theory, practice and pedagogies (pp. 17-33).Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier University Press.
English, L. M. (2010). Pedagogical practice of interreligious education: Critical social science directions. In K. Engebretson, M. de Souza, G. Durka, & L. Gearon (Eds.), International handbook for inter-religious education, volume 1 of 2 (pp. 425-440). New York: Springer Press.
English, L. M., & Macdonald, T.E. (2010). Rural feminist activism and religious fundamentalism, Nova Scotia, Canada. In S. Gokal, R. Barbero, & C. Balchin (Eds.), Key learnings from feminists on the frontline: Summaries of case studies on resisting and challenging fundamentalisms. Toronto, Mexico City and Capetown: Association of Women in Development. Full case published online http://www.awid.org/eng/AboutAWID/AWID-Initiatives/Resisting-and-Challenging-Religious-Fundamentalisms/CF-Case_Studies
English, L. M., & Tisdell, E. J. (2010). Spirituality and adult education. In C. Kasworm, A. Rose, & J. Ross-Gordon (Eds.), Handbook of adult and continuing education (pp. 285-293). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Articles in journals

English, L. M. (2012). Teaching the “Morally and Economically Destitute”: Nineteenth Century Adult Education Efforts in Newfoundland. Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region, XLI, no. 2, 66-88.
English, L. M. (2012). The Newfoundland School Society (1830-1840): A critical discourse analysis of its religious education efforts. Religious Education,107(5, December), 499-513. DOI: 10.1080/00344087.2012.722480.
English, L. M. (2012). Transformative learning theory: Implications for the adult religious education of women. Journal of Religious Education (AU), 60 (1),41-47.
English, L. M. (2010). Adult education of the laity: A church concern. Theoforum (A journal of the Faculty of Theology, St. Paul University, Ottawa), 41(1), 131-148.
English, L. M. (2008). Revisiting voice, subjectivity and circles: Feminist pedagogy in the 21st century. Journal of Adult Theological Education, 5(2), 112-125.

Other publications

English, L. M., & Zeph, C. (Eds.)). (2006). Special issue of Journal of Adult Theological Education. 3 (2).Theme: Lay Ministry Education.

Major Contributions to Adult Education

Canada’s leading scholars
Established the International Encyclopedia of Adult Education
Help funding support to ensure that the nation’s academic journal—the Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education