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Making Space Merging Theory and Practice in Adult Education

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ISBN-10: 0897896017

ISBN-13: 9780897896016

Edition: 2001

Authors: Vanessa Sheared, Peggy A. Sissel

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Representative of a wide range of adult education and lifelong 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 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 education as a field of practice can marginalize individuals based on their…    
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Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 6/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Deconstructing Exclusion and Inclusion in Adult Education
Opening the Gates: Reflections on Power, Hegemony, Language, and the Status Quo
Incorporating Postmodernist Perspectives into Adult Education
Challenging Adult Learning: A Feminist Perspective
Talking about Whiteness: "Adult Learning Principles" and the Invisible Norm
An Invisible Presence, Silenced Voices: African Americans in the Adult Education Professoriate
History Revisited and Claimed
The African-American Market Woman: Her Past, Our Future
Creating an Intellectual Basis for Friendship: Practice and Politics in a White Women's Study Group
Northern Philanthropy's Ideological Influence on African-American Adult Education in the Rural South
Struggling to Learn, Learning to Struggle: Workers, Workplace Learning, and the Emergence of Human Resource Development
The Role of Adult Education in Workplace Ageism
Classrooms and Communities: Contexts, Questions, and Critiques
Communities in the Classroom: Critical Reflections on Adult Education in an Appalachian Community
Education, Incarceration, and the Marginalization of Women
Adult Basic Education: Equipped for the Future or for Failure?
Teaching as Political Practice
Cultural Infusion: Reflections on Identity and Practice
African-American Women of Inspiration
Through the Eyes of a Latina: Professional Women in Adult Education
By My Own Eyes: A Story of Learning and Culture
Using Queer Cultural Studies to Transgress Adult Educational Space
Feminist Perspectives on Adult Education: Constantly Shifting Identities in Constantly Changing Times
Reconstructing the Field: Our Personal and Collective Identities
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Confronting Who "We" Are
Technologies of Learning at Work: Disciplining the Self
The Political Economy of Adult Education: Implications for Practice
What Does Research, Resistance, and Inclusion Mean for Adult Education Practice? A Reflective Response
Index
About the Contributors