Affiliation
Professor: Department of Sociology and Equity Studies, Research Network on Work and Lifelong Learning (WALL), Centre for the Study of Education and Work
Bio
Dr. David W. Livingstone is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). He was born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1943. He holds an Honours B.A. in sociology from the University of British Columbia and a doctorate in social relations from Johns Hopkins University.
His most recent publications include:
- Working and Learning in the Information Age: A Canadian Profile. Ottawa: Canadian Policy Research Networks. (forthcoming );
- The Education-Jobs Gap: Underemployment or Economic Democracy (Garamond Press and Westview Press, 1999) which has won the John Porter Memorial Book Award of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association;
- Public Attitudes towards Education in Ontario: The Twelfth OISE/UT Survey (University of Toronto Press, 1999);
- Down-to- Earth People: Beyond Class Reductionism and Post-Modernism (Garamond Press,1999).
His current research interests include completion of a long-term ethnographic study of working class learning practices and the related development of an activity theory of adult learning, as well as several other in-depth studies of adults’ informal learning practices, and ongoing analyses of underemployment and political consciousness.
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Contact
Department of Sociology and Equity Studies
OISE/UT
252 Bloor St. W
Toronto M5S 1V6 Canada
Phone: (416) 923-6641 ext. 2703
Fax: (416) 926-4751
E-mail: dlivingstone@oise.utoronto.ca
