Olutoyin Mejiuni

Olutoyin Mejiuni is an adult educator whose work focuses on the political dimensions of adult education, informal learning, women’s learning, and the concerns of women in teaching-learning interactions and contexts; exploring questions of identity; and the transformative and emancipatory potentials of educational interactions in these areas. She possesses a PhD in Adult Education and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. She has authored Women and Power: Education, Religion, and Identity (2012, Ibadan: University Press Plc; 2013, Dakar: CODESRIA). She has contributed to the International Encyclopedia of Adult Education, Widening Access to Education as Social Justice, Handbook of Transformative Learning: Theory, Research, and Practice, and she has published in JENDA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies. She was the editor of Adult Education in Nigeria and has been a consulting editor for Adult Education Quarterly. Olutoyin Mejiuni is a co-founder of Women Against Rape, Sexual Harassment, and Sexual Exploitation (WARSHE), a non-governmental and not-for-profit organization that supports and educates survivors and potential victims of sexual violence and abuse. Under the aegis of WARSHE, she co-authored the research report entitled Unsafe Spaces: Dodgy Friends and Families (2012, with Oluyemisi Obilade).

Publications

Working-Walking Alone and With Others: Working-Walking Fast and Far
Working-Walking Alone and With Others: Working-Walking Fast and Far
Olutoyin Mejiuni. © 2018. 16 pages.
In this chapter, the author shall argue, with materials sourced through desk work, that although formal educational institutions, business and industries, multi-lateral agencies...
Measuring and Analyzing Informal Learning in the Digital Age
Measuring and Analyzing Informal Learning in the Digital Age
Olutoyin Mejiuni, Patricia Cranton, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò. © 2015. 335 pages.
In the twenty-first century, learning—and the definition of education—is changing. New digital, online, and social tools have the ability to transform the classroom and engage...
Looking Back and Looking Forward
Looking Back and Looking Forward
Patricia Cranton, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Olutoyin Mejiuni. © 2015. 21 pages.
This chapter reviews the common themes that run through the volume. The authors review the relationship between informal learning and adult and higher education and how the...
Working-Walking Alone and With Others: Working-Walking Fast and Far
Working-Walking Alone and With Others: Working-Walking Fast and Far
Olutoyin Mejiuni. © 2014. 16 pages.
In this chapter, the author shall argue, with materials sourced through desk work, that although formal educational institutions, business and industries, multi-lateral agencies...
Dynamics of Informal Learning in Two Local Markets in Ile-Ife, Southwest Nigeria
Dynamics of Informal Learning in Two Local Markets in Ile-Ife, Southwest Nigeria
Tajudeen Ade Akinsooto, Olutoyin Mejiuni. © 2014. 24 pages.
In this chapter, the authors report on a recently concluded research study of the nature of adult informal learning in two local markets in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Through case study...
Envisioning K-20 Education: Refractioning K-20 Education in a Nigerian University
Envisioning K-20 Education: Refractioning K-20 Education in a Nigerian University
Olutoyin Mejiuni. © 2013. 19 pages.
Through a case study of the faculty of education of Obafemi Awolowo University, the authors argue that although the founders of the faculty envisioned, conceived, and attempted...