Appointment of Interim Chair of the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Marcelo Vieta as Interim Chair of the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education for the period September 1 to October 31, 2024. I look forward to sharing further updates with you about the LHAE Chair role in the coming months.

Marcelo is an Associate Professor in the Adult Education and Community Development (AECD) Program. His research and teaching are informed by the sociology of work, critical theory, class-struggle Marxism, the philosophy of technology, the community economies approach, and other radical traditions. Marcelo’s work explores how more cooperation, solidarity, and democracy may be fostered in the workplace and the community, and how people learn collectively in and out of struggle, at the workplace, in the community, and in social movements. He is the author of Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestion (Brill Academic Publishers, 2020) and co-author of  Cooperatives at Work (Emerald Publishing, 2023), the latter of which won the 2023 Joyce Rothschild Book Prize.

Marcelo’s record of leadership at OISE and LHAE includes service as the Co-Director (2021-22) and Director (2022-present) of the Centre for Learning, Social Economy & Work (which he co-founded in 2014), Program Coordinator of the AECD Program (2023-24), and Director of the Collaborative Specialization in Workplace Learning and Social Change. I look forward to the contributions that Marcelo will continue to make as Interim Chair of the department and a member of OISE’s senior leadership team.

Please join me in congratulating Marcelo on his appointment and welcoming him as Interim Chair of LHAE!

Warm regards,

Erica

Erica N. Walker
Professor and Dean
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
University of Toronto