Andrew Hodgkins

Marketing Adult Education for Mega-projects in Canada's North Andrew Hodgkins

This book examines the influence the current economic climate - driven by the extraction of non-renewable resources currently underway in the Northwest Territories - is having on adult education policy and program development. A qualitative methodology involving open-ended interviews was chosen to better understand local realities of labour market influenced educational policy and its implications on policy process and practice. By gathering perceptions from those given authority and responsibility for developing policy on behalf of northerners, and also from those affected by such policies, findings suggest cooptation of adult education by market forces is occurring despite increased local autonomy through recent aboriginal self-governance initiatives. Implications for community sustainability and governance are examined within this context.