Principal Investigator
and leader of the WALL Research Network
Dr. David W. Livingstone is a professor in the Department of Sociology
and Equity Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). He was born in Vancouver,
B.C. in 1943. He holds an Honours B.A. in sociology from the University
of British Columbia and a doctorate in social relations from Johns Hopkins
University. He is director of the Centre for the Study of Education and
Work at OISE/UT and leader of the Social Sciencesand Humanities Research
Council-funded research network on the Changing Nature of Work and Lifelong
Learning (WALL), as well as principal investigator of the OISE/UT biennial
Survey of Educational Issues.
His current research interests include completion of a long-term
ethnographic study of working class learning practices and the related
development of an activity theory of adult learning, as well as several
other in-depth studies of adults' informal learning practices, and ongoing
analyses of underemployment and political consciousness.
