Dr. Tom Sork

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Professor Emeritus

Department of Educational Studies

Dr. Tom Sork’s academic interests include program planning for adult learners, professional ethics and international collaboration. For eight years, he served as an associate dean in the Faculty of Education with responsibilities that included learning technologies and international engagement. In 2020, he served as the primary organizer for an international conference involving seven scholarly associations around the world to be held at UBC, but the pandemic forced cancellation of that event. In 2021, working closely with UBC’s Conferences and Accommodation, he was the academic host for a virtual version of the 2020 conference design. This was UBC’s first effort to host a fully virtual international research conference.

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  • The Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education 2021 (AEGT 2021)

    June 3-6, 2021

  • This conference reflected on the work of adult educators around the world, and gave educators the opportunity to discuss some of the main issues and challenges they see facing adult educators today.

Publications

  • Shan, H., Zhang, T., Sork, T. J., & Wong, P. K.H. (2021). Learning and knowledge ‘transfer’ as translation: A case study of a health partnership programme between Canada and China from the perspective of ANT. Compare: A journal of comparative and international education.
    2021
  • Sork, T. J. (2021). Program planning in an era of “wicked problems.” In T. S. Rocco, M. C. Smith, R. C. Mizzi, L. R. Merriweather, & J. D. Hawley, J. (Eds.). Handbook of adult and continuing education: 2020 Edition (pp. 128-139). Stylus.
    2021
  • Grotlüschen, A., Stammer, C. & Sork, T. J. (2020). People who teach regularly: What do we know from PIACC about their professionalization? Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 26(1), 125-148.
    2020
  • Sork, T. J. (2020). Developing institutional leadership for improving teaching-learning with new technologies. In N. V. Varghese and S. Mandal (Eds.), Teaching learning and new technologies in higher education (pp. 55-65). Springer Nature.
    2020