Kaela Jubas

Originally from Toronto, Dr. Jubas completed her PhD at University of British Columbia in the Department of Educational Studies (Adult Education). She joined the Faculty of Education at University of Calgary following her PhD in 2008, and teaches in the area of Workplace and Adult Learning (now Adult Learning). She works from a neo-Gramscian, feminist, critical theory perspective. Her research and teaching connect diverse subjects, including work-related learning, consumption and popular culture, identity, globalization, social change and innovative approaches to qualitative methodology.

Dr. Jubas takes a multidisciplinary approach to her research. She draws on methods and scholarship from adult education, cultural studies, women’s studies and sociology to explore and connect culture-as-pedagogy, work and the workplace, identity, globalization and social justice. Her research illustrates how adult learning occurs in the activities and processes of everyday life, and advances an understanding of adult learning as holistic.

Current Projects:

Cultural constructions of health and citizenship: How American pop culture inserts itself into learning, debates and policies about Canadian health care (co-investigator: Dr. Dawn Johnston, Communication and Cultural Studies, U of C), funded by SSHRC Standard Research Grant

Examining the social organization of undergraduate nurse employees: An institutional ethnography (co-investigator; prinicpal investigator: Dr. Janet Rankin, Nursing, U of C), funded by Faculty of Nursing Endowment Award

Be(com)ing an academic in the neoliberal academy (co-investigator as of September 2012: Dr. Jackie Seidel)

Recently Completed Projects:

Drama and comedy of professional learning: Culture as a source of learning for health care workers, funded by SSHRC Standard Research Grant and University of Calgary Starter Grant (http://lrngculture.wordpress.com/)

PhD (2009)
University of British Columbia

MEd (2004)
University of British Columbia

Master of Environmental Studies (1990)
York University

BA (Honours) (1984)
York University

Dr. Jubas is a member of the following associations and networks.

• Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, member
• International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, member scholar
• Canadian Society for the Study of Education, member
• Canadian Communication Association, member
• European Society for Research on the Education of Adults, member
• Work and Learning Network for Research and Policy, member

Jubas, K. (2010). The politics of shopping: What consumers learn about identity, globalization, and social change (International Institute for Qualitative Methodology series). Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. ISBN 1-59874-666-9/978-1-59874-666-2

Jubas, K., & Knutson, P. (2012). Fictions of work-related learning: How a hit television show portrays internship, and how medical students relate to those portrayals. Studies in Continuing Education, iFirst. DOI: 10.1080/0158037X.2012.738659

Jubas, K. (2012). On being a new academic in the new academy: Impacts of neoliberalism on work and life of a junior faculty member. Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, 21, 25-35. Available at http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/workplace/article/view/182508

Jubas, K., & Knutson, P. (2012). Seeing and be(liev)ing: How nursing and medical students understand representations of their professions. Studies in the Education of Adults, 44(1), 85-100.

Jubas, K. (2011). Shopping for identity: Articulations of gender, race and class by critical consumers. Social Identities, 17(3), 319-333.

Jubas, K. (2011). Everyday scholars: Exploring shopping as a site of adult learning. Adult Education Quarterly, 61(3), 225-243.

International Institute for Qualitative Methodology Dissertation Award, 2009

SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, 2006-2008

Dean of Education Scholarship, UBC, 2007

Best Graduate Student Paper, Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, 2007

Coolie Verner Prize, Adult Education/UBC, 2004

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