Stepping in and Stepping Out: Adult Educators Teaching in a Teacher Preparation Program

Overview & Synopsis

In this paper we offer an account of our own experiences of transition during a restructuring of our Faculty of Education which necessitated addressing and transcending a perceived boundary to bring adult education scholarship and practice into a two-year, 'BEd After' degree program preparing pre-service teachers for the K-12 school system. As we explore the tensions of stepping out of the margins and stepping into the mainstream, we explore how our voice, as adult educators, has the potential to offer an alternative perspective, not only within our own adult education classes and with each other as colleagues, but within broader faculty and university change.