Howard A. Doughty

Howard Doughty has lectured at a number of colleges and universities in Canada and the USA - notably McMaster University, the Ontario Insitute for Studies in Education, St. Mary's University, and the Universities of Hawai'i and Toronto. He has also taught at in the MA program in Diplomacy and Military Studies and the Department of Sociology at Hawai'i Pacific University and is currently completing his 53rd year as a Professor at Seneca College in Toronto. A former editor of Bridges: Explorations in Science, Technology and Society (1986-1991), The College Quarterly (1992-2017), and The Innovation Journal (1998-2020), he is currently a regular contributor to Critical Links, a monthly publication of The Centre for Inquiry Canada. He has published widely on the theory and practice of democracy and critical pedagogy. His most recent books in include Soft Science: Notes and Readings in Cultural Anthropology, Culture and Difference, and Discourse and Community (the latter two edited with Marino Tuzi). Howard Doughty is also a community and trade union activist with over 40 years as an elected Local and occasional provincial Executive Member of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, a 180,000-member union representing blue-collar, white-collar, and professional public-sector workers. In 2017, he received a "lifetime achievement" award from his union and, perhaps counter-intuitively, was presented with a "Canada 150 Citizenship Award by the Parliament of Canada on the occasion of the nation's Sesquicentennial.

Publications

Andragogy and Higher Education in Late Capitalism: A Critique
Andragogy and Higher Education in Late Capitalism: A Critique
Howard A. Doughty. © 2023. 22 pages.
Over the past half-century, the word “andragogy” has migrated from the fringe vocabulary to the standard lexicon of adult education. It has identified common psychological traits...
Marxism and Andragogy: A Problematic Relationship
Marxism and Andragogy: A Problematic Relationship
Howard A. Doughty. © 2023. 18 pages.
This article concerns the problematic connection between Marxism and Andragogy. The former is generally regarded as an unpopular, discredited and, in some political circles, a...
From Critical Practice to Response: The Outcome of a Singular College Strike
From Critical Practice to Response: The Outcome of a Singular College Strike
Howard A. Doughty. © 2021. 25 pages.
On October 16, 2017, over 12,000 faculty, librarians, and counsellors in 24 independent postsecondary colleges in Ontario, Canada went on strike for the fourth time since they...
A Rational Society?: Student Protest, Politics and the Relevance of Jürgen Habermas
A Rational Society?: Student Protest, Politics and the Relevance of Jürgen Habermas
Howard A. Doughty. © 2020. 23 pages.
Within the past century in North America, Europe, and elsewhere, brief episodes of student political activism and protest have alternated with much longer periods of apparent...
Administrative Ethics in the Corporate College: Paradoxes, Dilemmas, and Contradictions
Administrative Ethics in the Corporate College: Paradoxes, Dilemmas, and Contradictions
Howard A. Doughty. © 2020. 25 pages.
Changes in the mission, organization, and administration of colleges and universities reflect the transformation from elite to mass to universal access institutions. Curriculum...
Cybernetics, Cyberethics, and Technologically Enhanced Learning
Cybernetics, Cyberethics, and Technologically Enhanced Learning
Howard A. Doughty. © 2019. 19 pages.
Cybernetics is the science of communications and control. It has been applied to everything from household thermostats to non-verbal communication. Ethics is the study of beliefs...
From Critical Theory to Critical Practice: The Case of a Singular College Strike
From Critical Theory to Critical Practice: The Case of a Singular College Strike
Howard A. Doughty. © 2018. 23 pages.
The failure of Marxism to account for the rise of fascism and Nazism; the establishment of authoritarian regimes where “communist” revolutions had occurred, largely in...
From the Professoriat to the Precariat: Adjunctivitis, Collegiality, and Academic Freedom
From the Professoriat to the Precariat: Adjunctivitis, Collegiality, and Academic Freedom
Howard A. Doughty. © 2018. 22 pages.
Social class lies at the core of much that Marx said about the “laws of history.” Class conflict was to be the means whereby capitalism would be overthrown, superseded by a...