Scott Mclean
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 120747 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Scott Mclean |
| PRENOMES | Scott |
| SOBRENOME | Mclean |
| ASSINATURA | MCLEAN S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6573-7615 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 112 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1898 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Beyond post-truth politics
This paper analyses backlash against diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in higher education through employing the concept of intersectionality to demonstrate the post-truth foundations and political logic of such backlash. Its research design is that of a quantitative case study based on two sources of data: statistics from the 2021 Canadian Census showing median incomes and educational attainment among intersectional sub-populations; a…
Minor epic
Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival states. Lyric, however, is not the only kind of poetry. Epic is arguably the most ancient form of poetry…
“A Lasting Alliance Between Town and Gown”? Dalhousie Extension Lectures, 1890 - 1945
In the 1890s, universities across North America embarked on a short-lived “university extension” movement modelled on systems of lectures and examinations that had been developed at Cambridge and Oxford. While this movement lasted only a few years in the United States and failed to launch in Canada, it sparked substantial interest in the delivery of public lectures by university professors over the first half of the twentieth century. Based upon …
Schoolteachers, Technologies of the Self, and the Genealogy of the Late Modern Subject
From the 1920s through the 1960s, thousands of Canadian schoolteachers spent much of their summer holiday period attending courses organized by universities or provincial departments of education. In the 1920s, Queen’s University attracted students from every Canadian province to attend summer school in Kingston, Ontario. Through a content analysis of one hundred messages written by schoolteachers from across Canada, this article analyzes a techn…
The Factors That Contribute to Dysfunctional Behavior in Active Military Personnel
Dysfunctional behavior in active military personnel is a complex and challenging issue for military forces worldwide. Effective management of this issue requires a comprehensive understanding of the factors that contribute to dysfunctional behavior in military populations. The current study presents an umbrella review that synthesized and analyzed the existing literature on contributory factors to dysfunctional behavior in active military personn…
Building a Better and a Sounder Newfoundland”? Reassessing the History of University Extension, 1959–91
Across Canada in the twentieth century, livelihood strategies based upon harvesting and selling primary commodities were displaced by those based upon working for wages. Universities were key institutions in this transformation. Initially, universities enrolled few full-time students, and extension departments supported primary commodity producers through developing cooperatives, disseminating information, and engaging in outreach activities to e…
Cultural Distinction and the University of Toronto
In the first half of the twentieth century, the University of Toronto was a preeminent cultural institution in Canada. Based on a critical interpretation of archival documents, this article narrates the history of four non-formal educational programs through which the University of Toronto created opportunities for Canadians to develop privileged forms of cultural taste and practice: the administration of local examinations in music across Canada…
What Enables Child Sexual Abuse in Sport? A Systematic Review
Sporting environments provide opportunities for perpetrators to commit child sexual abuse (CSA). While awareness of CSA in sport and preventative interventions are increasing, CSA in sport still occurs at alarming rates. A systematic review was conducted to identify and synthesize the extant literature on the enabling factors for CSA in sport. The 34 included articles were peer-reviewed and were primary sources; had full-text versions in English;…
Challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence implementation within sports science and sports medicine teams
The rapid progress in the development of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as ChatGPT, represents a step-wise change in human's interactions with technology as part of a broader complex, sociotechnical system. Based on historical parallels to the present moment, such changes are likely to bring forth structural shifts to the nature of work, where near and future technologies will occupy key roles as workers or assista…
Public pedagogues of change
This article explores informal adult education for change in Mexico through the conceptual lens of social movement learning and public pedagogy. It adopts a multiple case design featuring two advocacy networks, two civil society organisations, and two self-help authors. It analyses how they position themselves as change agents addressing issues of food sovereignty, violence against women, social justice, environmental justice, financial insecurit…
From Missionary Zeal to Holiday Appeal
For over forty years, presidents of the Summer School Association of Queen’s University wrote annually to teachers across Canada, encouraging them to attend summer courses for credit toward a bachelor of arts. In the 1920s, presidents’ messages associated attendance with societal progress and the professionalization of teaching. In the 1930s, such messages linked attendance with personal growth and career development. In the 1940s and 1950s, they…
Hildaland, or bringing the ice
Taking its cue from the loss (more precisely, the disappearance) of a close friend and sometime collaborator, and drawing on my long-term fieldwork on an experimental arts festival held annually in the Orkney Islands, this essay reflects on the challenges of documenting uncertain or intermittent presence, as well as the possibilities the latter affords for unsettling and expanding received conceptions of identity, place, and belonging, especially…
No “haughty and inaccessible ivory tower”
Canadian universities today assert their social relevance through highlighting processes such as community engagement, knowledge mobilization, and the promotion of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Much can be learned about such processes through examining an era in which Canadian universities asserted their social relevance through another vocabulary: that of adult education and extension. This article provides a case study of adult education wo…
Speculations and Survivals
What role might an engagement with the past continue to play for an anthropology oriented toward the imagining and enacting of alternative (more just, livable, sustainable) futures? I approach this question via a “speculative memoir” of my own involvement in the Papay Gyro Nights Art Festival, held on the island of Papa Westray, Orkney (2011-2017). Founded by two emigré artist-curators (from Kyrgyzstan and Hong Kong), and featuring a range of con…
From Anti-doping-I to Anti-doping-II
Champions of democracy or agents of professionalization? The extension era at the universities of Toronto, Queen's, and McMaster
I narrate a historical sociology of extension work undertaken at Queen's University, McMaster University, and the University of Toronto from the late 1800s through the early 1960s. University administrators positioned extension work as dedicated to the democratization of higher education. However, a critical analysis of archival data reveals that the rise and fall of extension reflected these universities' material interests and organizational go…
Even the best may be forgotten
This article narrates the rise and fall of a notable adult education programme at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada. The Centre for Adult Education and Community Development was established in 1951, replacing the External Service for Social Education. In the 1950s, the Centre gained an international reputation for excellence in adult educational programming. The Centre developed a humanist philosophy and methodology of adult education and a…
Snow (intermittent)
This piece was written as part of a series of "hundreds" in honor of Katie Stewart. It offers a condensed reflection on what Katie's work taught me about the importance of the fleeting and ephemeral in the constitution of social worlds
Plumbing the University of Toronto
Working as the director of University Extension and Publicity for the University of Toronto from 1920 to 1951, William Dunlop built a large and diverse set of adult education programs, developed an influential discourse of extension, and sustained support for the adult education movement from three university presidents. This article explains the rise of institutional commitment to extension work due to political, financial, and competitive facto…
The cultural logic of precariousness and the marginalization of the sociological imagination
In recent decades, precariousness has become an increasingly prominent feature of life in many countries. At the same time as precarious forms of social relations have proliferated, self-help books have become tremendously popular. This article examines five best-selling self-help books in Mexico - two promoting mental wellness, one providing financial advice, one about romantic relationships, and one sharing inspirational lessons regarding succe…
Understanding the evolving context for lifelong education
Lifelong education is comprised of four broad categories of activity: early childhood education, primary and secondary schooling, tertiary studies, and adult education. Patterns of people’s engagement with each category of lifelong education differ substantially between countries and are influenced by widely varying public policies and institutional settings. While recognising the tremendous diversity of lifelong education around the world, this …
“The Advent of Civilization Amongst Them Will Not Tend to Their Betterment”
Between 1915 and 1920, members of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police (RNWMP) wrote four major narratives of making contact with Inuit living in territory now known as the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut. The authors were the first representatives of the Canadian state to enter the region, and their narratives positioned Inuit as “better off without civilization.” Various members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) stationed in the region over…
Who is in control? Managerial artificial general intelligence (Magi) for Football
Advanced technologies now threaten to surpass human intelligence. This watershed will radically impact the ways we currently play, view, and even understand sport. Artificial intelligence(AI) is progressing rapidly, and it remains a matter of time until the impact on sport is fully realized. Currently in sport, AI is a tool used to assist humans with performance monitoring, supporter and media engagement, and injury prediction, among other functi…
Beyond Neglect
This article refutes official and scholarly accounts of the history of relationships between Inuit and the Canadian state that suggest that the state neglected its Arctic citizens in the period prior to 1950. Instead, the article argues that the early decades of contact between state representatives and the Inuit witnessed the construction and deployment of a distinctive form of colonial rule. Materially, such rule involved the articulation of su…
Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg
Systems thinking, a fundamental approach for understanding complexity is gaining traction in sport science. Systems archetypes (SAs) describe common recurring patterns of system behaviours and explain the systemic influences on behaviour. SAs look at the deeper levels of systemic structure by identifying what creates system behaviours, which supports the development of interventions to identify and resolve problem sources. Four commonly used SAs …
Stories and Cosmogonies
What does it mean to create? Who or what could be said to create? God? Artists? Evolution? Markets? The Dialectic? Do things "just happen" and if so is that a kind of creativity? Taking storytelling as its point of reference, this essay considers the notion of creativity as it applies both to the productions of the human imagination, especially stories, and to the self-making of the material universe. I define creativity broadly as the bringing f…
Fictionalizing Anthropology
Black Goo
This article undertakes an evocative conjuration of alternative visions of materialism through consideration of intermediary states of matter. Specifically, it focuses on gelid, semiliquid, semisolid environments such as bogs, swamps, and marshes lying on the fringes of human settlement and against which the claims of reason and historical progress have often been staked. The article juxtaposes ethnographic and historical examples from Ireland, I…
Educational expansion or credential inflation? The evolution of part‐time study by adults at McGill University, Canada
Part‐time students have accounted for a significant proportion of rising participation in higher education in many countries. The objectives of this paper are to enrich the empirical literature concerning the inclusion of part‐time adult learners in higher education, and to assess the two competing theoretical frameworks that have emerged to explain the international expansion of higher education in recent decades: human capital theory and social…
Transitions and pathways
Through presenting empirical research exploring the connections between popular culture and informal learning, we argue that, as predicted by concepts such as self-directed learning and transformational learning, the experience of transition has a meaningful impact on adult learning. Specifically, transitions encourage adults to engage in learning activities, and they make such activities more likely to be systematic and sustained. We gathered ev…
Objectifying and Naturalizing Individuality
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Progress, Public Health, and Power
From 1911 to 1979, the Homemakers' Clubs of Saskatchewan mobilized and monitored extensive study and action in the field of public health. This article explores how these clubs exhorted women to strive for progress, and encouraged women to internalize such striving as fundamental to their own identities. The techniques used included encouraging commitment to shared goals, making such goals personal, structuring action, requiring women to report t…
A work second to none’
From 1912 to 1975 the Department of Extension at the University of Alberta provided an impressive range of programmes and services to people across the Canadian province of Alberta. The four Directors of Extension at the University of Alberta during this period became leading figures in the history of adult education in Canada. They positioned their department in terms of making three contributions to society: extending the resources of the unive…
The cultural logic of precariousness and the marginalization of the sociological imagination
In recent decades, precariousness has become an increasingly prominent feature of life in many countries. At the same time as precarious forms of social relations have proliferated, self-help books have become tremendously popular. This article examines five best-selling self-help books in Mexico - two promoting mental wellness, one providing financial advice, one about romantic relationships, and one sharing inspirational lessons regarding succe…
Understanding the evolving context for lifelong education
Lifelong education is comprised of four broad categories of activity: early childhood education, primary and secondary schooling, tertiary studies, and adult education. Patterns of people’s engagement with each category of lifelong education differ substantially between countries and are influenced by widely varying public policies and institutional settings. While recognising the tremendous diversity of lifelong education around the world, this …
Who is in control? Managerial artificial general intelligence (Magi) for Football
Advanced technologies now threaten to surpass human intelligence. This watershed will radically impact the ways we currently play, view, and even understand sport. Artificial intelligence(AI) is progressing rapidly, and it remains a matter of time until the impact on sport is fully realized. Currently in sport, AI is a tool used to assist humans with performance monitoring, supporter and media engagement, and injury prediction, among other functi…
Sports Organizations as Complex Systems
There is increasing interest in the adoption of a complex systems thinking approach when attempting to understand and optimize sports performance. Despite this, few studies have attempted to model elite sports organizations. The aim of this study was to use methods from the Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) framework to develop a model of an elite netball organization and identify wider organizational functions and constraints influencing performance…
Public pedagogues of change
This article explores informal adult education for change in Mexico through the conceptual lens of social movement learning and public pedagogy. It adopts a multiple case design featuring two advocacy networks, two civil society organisations, and two self-help authors. It analyses how they position themselves as change agents addressing issues of food sovereignty, violence against women, social justice, environmental justice, financial insecurit…
From Getting Ahead to Getting Back on One's Feet
Despite the fact that millions of men engage in self-help reading, there has been little scholarly research about the reception of self-help texts by male readers. We explore how men read self-help books through presenting the results of forty-five qualitative interviews with readers of books in the domains of career and financial success, health and well-being, and interpersonal relationships. Our interviewees expressed awareness of the stigmati…
Colonial encounters in the classroom
Adult education was an integral component of the colonisation of the Canadian Arctic. Between the 1960s and the 1990s, educational programmes were explicitly developed in order to shape Inuit adults in particular ways: from teaching them how to live in permanent houses, to teaching them how to work as administrators and tradespeople. Inuit did not unanimously embrace such programmes. This article examines how Euro–Canadian adult educators during …
Learning on the margins of adult education
Through presenting the results of qualitative interviews with readers of self-help books relating to health, relationships, and career success, this article enriches existing knowledge about the learning experiences of adults as they engage with popular culture. Of 100 adults interviewed, 96 claimed that they learned something of importance from reading a self-help book, 75 claimed that they changed something about their day-to-day life as a resu…
Extending resources, fostering progress, or meeting needs? University extension and continuing education in western Canada
This article presents a concise, historical overview of university extension and continuing education in western Canada. It argues that, over the course of the twentieth century, the major universities in western Canada made three basic claims regarding the purposes of their extension and continuing education units. Prior to 1940, universities claimed that such units extended the resources of the university for the benefit of citizens not enrolle…
An Early Chapter in Canadian Railroad Policy
Literatur und Utopie. Versuche zu Holderlin
To Educate or Not to Educate? Canadian Discourses Concerning Inuit Schooling From the 1930s to the 1950s
In the middle of this century, Canadian state representatives transformed their conceptualization of the relationship between Inuit, education, and modernity. In the 1930s, Inuit were seen as destined to remain collectively insulated from the modem world, and education was considered either insignificant or dangerous. By 1955, Inuit were seen as destined to become fully modern citizens of Canada, and education was considered a moral and practical…
Continuing Education and the Postmodern Arts of Power
University continuing educators have recognized that political-economic and institutional changes are making social activism more difficult to sustain. This article argues that to build more effective and vigorous forms of social activism, continuing educators need to understand how systems of oppression are changing. In postmodern societies, patterns of oppression are shifting from centralized, explicitly coercive projects of political dominatio…
Objectifying and Naturalizing Individuality
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Between rationality and politics
Using the author's experience as the coordinator of the Canadian Agriculture Lifetime Leadership programme as a case study, this article provides an interpretive essay about programme planning in adult education. Two conceptual frameworks are used to structure narratives of the programme planning process. The first asserts that programme planning is the rational application of a six-step decision-making model. The second claims that programme pla…
Reclaiming Gender
Reclaiming Gender: Transgressive Identities in Modern Ireland. Marilyn Cohen and Nancy J. Curtin. eds. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. + 298 pp., notes, references, index
They’re Happy, but Did They Make a Difference? Applying Kirkpatrick’s Framework to the Evaluation of a National Leadership Program
This article examines the Kirkpatrick evaluation framework through a case study of a national leadership development program. The authors introduce the program and the Kirkpatrick framework, and then describe the research processes and instruments through which the framework was applied to evaluate the pilot cohort of the program. The article concludes with several frank and practical insights about using the Kirkpatrick framework to evaluate non…
A work second to none’
From 1912 to 1975 the Department of Extension at the University of Alberta provided an impressive range of programmes and services to people across the Canadian province of Alberta. The four Directors of Extension at the University of Alberta during this period became leading figures in the history of adult education in Canada. They positioned their department in terms of making three contributions to society: extending the resources of the unive…
Diverse Communities
Journal Article Diverse Communities: The Problem with Social Capital by Barbara Arneil Get access Diverse Communities: The Problem With Social Capitalby Barbara Arneil. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. 280pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $29.99. Scott McLean Scott McLean Quinnipiac University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 122, Issue 4, Winter 2007, Pages 683–685, h…
Bodies From the Bog
This essay is about bog bodies â the preserved remains of prehistoric humans, often interpreted as ritual killings, found in peat bogs across northwest Europe. It considers the production of knowledge about the human past as a complex, relational process implicating multiple actors and traversing the terms of any straightforward nature-culture binary. It argues that theorizations of collective memory â and in particular of its â collectiveâ aspec…
Progress, Public Health, and Power
From 1911 to 1979, the Homemakers' Clubs of Saskatchewan mobilized and monitored extensive study and action in the field of public health. This article explores how these clubs exhorted women to strive for progress, and encouraged women to internalize such striving as fundamental to their own identities. The techniques used included encouraging commitment to shared goals, making such goals personal, structuring action, requiring women to report t…
Extending resources, fostering progress, or meeting needs? University extension and continuing education in western Canada
This article presents a concise, historical overview of university extension and continuing education in western Canada. It argues that, over the course of the twentieth century, the major universities in western Canada made three basic claims regarding the purposes of their extension and continuing education units. Prior to 1940, universities claimed that such units extended the resources of the university for the benefit of citizens not enrolle…
Stories and Cosmogonies
What does it mean to create? Who or what could be said to create? God? Artists? Evolution? Markets? The Dialectic? Do things "just happen" and if so is that a kind of creativity? Taking storytelling as its point of reference, this essay considers the notion of creativity as it applies both to the productions of the human imagination, especially stories, and to the self-making of the material universe. I define creativity broadly as the bringing f…
Educational expansion or credential inflation? The evolution of part‐time study by adults at McGill University, Canada
Part‐time students have accounted for a significant proportion of rising participation in higher education in many countries. The objectives of this paper are to enrich the empirical literature concerning the inclusion of part‐time adult learners in higher education, and to assess the two competing theoretical frameworks that have emerged to explain the international expansion of higher education in recent decades: human capital theory and social…
Black Goo
This article undertakes an evocative conjuration of alternative visions of materialism through consideration of intermediary states of matter. Specifically, it focuses on gelid, semiliquid, semisolid environments such as bogs, swamps, and marshes lying on the fringes of human settlement and against which the claims of reason and historical progress have often been staked. The article juxtaposes ethnographic and historical examples from Ireland, I…
Citizenship development through vocational training
This article inspires critical and creative thinking about the promotion of citizenship development through programmes of study designed primarily to enhance adults' vocational skills. It does so through presenting an empirical case study of an important adult education programme delivered by the Department of University Extension at the University of British Columbia in the 1940s and 1950s. The ‘Youth Training School’ was funded by the governmen…
Canada Abroad
The six articles immediately following this introduction are based on papers presented at the 'Canada Abroad' conference held at the Bader International Study Centre, or BISC, at Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex, England, in the summer of 2013. For those who don't know about BISC, it's an interna- tional study centre affiliated with Queen's University - not the Belfast institution, but the Canadian one, based in Kingston, Ontario. It offers an oppor…
Learning on the margins of adult education
Through presenting the results of qualitative interviews with readers of self-help books relating to health, relationships, and career success, this article enriches existing knowledge about the learning experiences of adults as they engage with popular culture. Of 100 adults interviewed, 96 claimed that they learned something of importance from reading a self-help book, 75 claimed that they changed something about their day-to-day life as a resu…
Transitions and pathways
Through presenting empirical research exploring the connections between popular culture and informal learning, we argue that, as predicted by concepts such as self-directed learning and transformational learning, the experience of transition has a meaningful impact on adult learning. Specifically, transitions encourage adults to engage in learning activities, and they make such activities more likely to be systematic and sustained. We gathered ev…
Materiality and Culture
Crumpled Paper Boat
Colonial encounters in the classroom
Adult education was an integral component of the colonisation of the Canadian Arctic. Between the 1960s and the 1990s, educational programmes were explicitly developed in order to shape Inuit adults in particular ways: from teaching them how to live in permanent houses, to teaching them how to work as administrators and tradespeople. Inuit did not unanimously embrace such programmes. This article examines how Euro–Canadian adult educators during …
Fictionalizing Anthropology
Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg
Systems thinking, a fundamental approach for understanding complexity is gaining traction in sport science. Systems archetypes (SAs) describe common recurring patterns of system behaviours and explain the systemic influences on behaviour. SAs look at the deeper levels of systemic structure by identifying what creates system behaviours, which supports the development of interventions to identify and resolve problem sources. Four commonly used SAs …
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