Making space : merging theory and practice in adult education / edited by Vanessa Sheared and Peggy A. Sissel ; foreword by Phyllis M. Cunningham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sheared, Vanessa, 1956-

Sissel, Peggy A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adult education--Social aspects--United States.

Adult education.

Discrimination in education--United States.

Discrimination in education.

Critical pedagogy--United States.

Critical pedagogy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Representative of a wide range of adult education and lifelong learning frameworks and experiences, this book gives voice to emerging perspectives and offers thought-provoking critiques of established practices and accepted theories. Those in the adult education academy, as well as other voices often excluded from the discourse in adult education, offer critiques of the social, political, economic, and historical forms of hegemony in the discipline. They analyze the ways in which these hegemonic norms and practices have affected adult learning environments and the participation rates of varying groups and shed light on how adult education as a field of practice can marginalize individuals based on their ethnicity, race, gender, class, language, age, or sexual orientation. These critiques provide a powerful statement about silence, invisibility, and the marginalization of the other, and suggest that adult educators may complicitly, if not implicitly, marginalize adult learners. This book will provide professors and students, adult literacy teachers, corporate trainers, community-based organizers, and others with alternative ways to think about adult education practice, adult learners, and the multiple, intersecting realities that influence the teaching/learning transaction. In so doing, this book provides practitioners and academicians with a forum to dialog about emerging theories and practices, and through the discourse they can begin to merge theories and practices through language that is accessible and inclusive.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I Deconstructing Exclusion and Inclusion in Adult Education; Chapter 1 Opening the Gates: Reflections on Power, Hegemony, Language, and the Status Quo Peggy A. Sissel and Vanessa Sheared; Chapter 2 Incorporating Postmodernist Perspectives into Adult Education David F. Hemphill; Chapter 3 Challenging Adult Learning: A Feminist Perspective Daniele D. Flannery and Elisabeth Hayes; Chapter 4 Talking about Whiteness: ""Adult Learning Principles"" and the Invisible Norm Sue Shore

Chapter 5 An Invisible Presence, Silenced Voices: African Americans in the Adult Education Professoriate Sherwood E. Smith and Scipio A. J. Colin IIIPart II History Revisited and Claimed; Chapter 6 The African- American Market Woman: Her Past, Our Future Cheryl A. Smith; Chapter 7 Creating an Intellectual Basis for Friendship: Practice and Politics in a White Women's Study Group Jane M. Hugo; Chapter 8 Northern Philanthropy's Ideological Influence on African- American Adult Education in the Rural South Bernadine S. Chapman

Chapter 9 Struggling to Learn, Learning to Struggle: Workers, Workplace Learning, and the Emergence of Human Resource Development Fred M. SchiedChapter 10 The Role of Adult Education in Workplace Ageism Su- fen Liu and Frances Rees; Part III Classrooms and Communities: Contexts, Questions, and Critiques; Chapter 11 Communities in the Classroom: Critical Reflections on Adult Education in an Appalachian Community Mary Beth Bingman and Connie White with Amelia R. B. Kirby; Chapter 12 Education, Incarceration, and the Marginalization of Women Irene C. Baird

Chapter 13 Adult Basic Education: Equipped for the Future or for Failure? Donna AmstutzChapter 14 Teaching as Political Practice Ruth Bounous; Part IV Cultural Infusion: Reflections on Identity and Practice; Chapter 15 African- American Women of Inspiration Angela Humphrey Brown; Chapter 16 Through the Eyes of a Latina: Professional Women in Adult Education Rosita Lopez Marcano; Chapter 17 By My Own Eyes: A Story of Learning and Culture Lynette Harper and ""Mira""; Chapter 18 Using Queer Cultural Studies to Transgress Adult Educational Space Andre P. Grace

Chapter 19 Feminist Perspectives on Adult Education: Constantly Shifting Identities in Constantly Changing Times Elizabeth J. TisdellPart V Reconstructing the Field: Our Personal and Collective Identities; Chapter 20 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Confronting Who ""We"" Are Merilyn Childs; Chapter 21 Technologies of Learning at Work: Disciplining the Self John Garrick and Nicky Solomon; Chapter 22 The Political Economy of Adult Education: Implications for Practice Jorge Jeria

Chapter 23 What Does Research, Resistance, and Inclusion Mean for Adult Education Practice? A Reflective Response Vanessa Sheared and Peggy A. Sissel

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400681691

9780313002892

0313002894

OCLC:

55143538