Prestigious USA award for University Of Malta professor

Professor Leona English, St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada and Professor Peter Mayo, Department of Education Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Malta, have just been awarded the prestigous 2013 C. Houle Award for the book they coauthored titled Learning with Adults. A Critical Pedagogical Introduction published by Sense in 2012.

This award, widely regarded as the most important for literature on adult education in the English speaking world, is awarded by the American Association for Adult Continuing Education and will be presented during a luncheon at the AAACE Conference in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, on 5 November.

Learning with Adults A Critical Pedagogical Introduction was published in late 2012 and is a standard text on university courses in the field in various places in Canada and the USA. It has recently also been published in Spanish and has already gained favourable reviews in such journals as International Journal of Lifelong Education. Copies of the original English version are on sale at the University campus bookstore.

Both authors worked assiduosly on this volume through electronic networking. Annemarie Mayo (architect) provided the design for the front cover based on a motif from the World Social Forum in Kenya.

Prof. English is a well known figure in the North American adult education field and has produced numerous books and papers including her most recent book on Adult Education and Health published by University of Toronto Press. Among other things, she has also written a book on spirituality in adult education (with Tara Fenwick and Jim Parsons) and also edited the 2005 International Encyclopedia of Adult Continuing Education for Palgrave-Macmillan. She is Professor at St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada which also houses the prestigious centre for adult education that is the Coady Institute.

Prof. Mayo is the author of numerous books and papers on politics, sociology, culture and education, mainly published interationally. His latest books are Politics of Indignation (Zero Books, 2012) and Echoes from Freire for a critically engaged pedagogy (Bloomsbury, 2013). His forthcoming book, written with Federico Batini and Alessio Surian, focuses on Lorenzo Milani and the schools of San Donato and Barbiana (Peter Lang, 2013). A frequent keynote speaker at international conferences, he is Professor in the Department of Education Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Malta.