Marcie
Boucouvalas is one of the nation's preeminent leaders and scholars
in
adult and continuing education. She is the Professor of Human Development
and Adult Learning and Human Resource Development at Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University where she has been a resident faculty
member
since 1980, frequently serving as external examiner for dissertations
in other countries. Her 35 years of contributions to the field of
adult education have included
theory
and research,
as
well
as
grass
roots
action within a variety of institutional contexts,
in geographically diverse areas, in urban and rural settings, with
a myriad
of populations, special interest groups, and diverse cultures. She releases
others' energies in ways that helps them find their own voice and
path, and has brought vision and visibility of the adult education
field onto the radar screen of other discipines.
Dr. Boucouvalas' scholarship, research, and leadership have focused on the areas of international adult education, including a specialty on the history of lifelong and adult learning in Greece and adult development and learning with an emphasis on transformational issues of the individual and society. She is a leading scholar on transpersonal psychology and was selected in 1994 to the Academy of Consciousness Studies at Princeton. Her first published research on transpersonal psychology appeared in 1980 in the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology for which she became a field editor in 1981, and the editor in 2002. She also served on the editorial board of the Adult Eduction Quarterly for over a decade.
With integrity
and deep devotion to human rights, Dr. Boucouvalas has been influential
in responding to and serving the needs
of many
diverse
professional groups. Some leadership roles include president
of the International Associates in Adult Education and
secretary of the International Society for Comparative Adult Education. She
has contributed greatly to the field of adult and continuing education's
growing body
of knowledge through authoring numerous refereed publications, book
chapters and books or edited volumes. Among her works are
the Transpersonal
Orientation
as a Framework for Understanding Adult Development and Creative Processes, and
Adult Education and the Human Rights Movement: Toward a Global Research
Agenda for the History of Adult Education.
A member of the Honor Society for International Scholars, she is also listed
in 15 biographical reference publications.
In recognition of Dr. Marcie
Boucouvalas' cotributions on local, national, and international levels
she was awarded the Phi Delta Kappa Distinguished Academic Service Award
in 1985. She also served as a U.S. representative to the World Assembly
in Adult Education in Bangkok, 1990; Cairo, 1994; Jamaica, 2001; to the
UNESCO Assembly in Hamburg, 1997; and, when the USA rejoined UNESCO in
2002, was appointed as the U.S. delegate to the Assembly in Sofia, Bulgaria.
In recognition of Dr. Marcie Boucouvalas' contributions to the field of continuing education on local, national and international levels she was awarded the Phi Delta Kappa Distinguished Academic Service Award in 1985 and the Golden Key Award in 1986. She also served as a U.S. representative for the World Assembly in Adult Education in Cairo in 1994 and Bangkok in 1990.