Radicalizing Learning: Adult Education for a Just World (The Jossey-bass Higher Adn Adult Education Series) - Hardcover

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Stephen D. Brookfield is Distinguished University Professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For 40 years he has taught in England, Canada, Australia, and the United States. A four-time winner of the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education, he is the author of numerous books on teaching including The Skillful Teacher (Second Edition, 2006), Discussion as a Way of Teaching (Second Edition, 2005), and The Power of Critical Theory (2004), all from Jossey-Bass.

John D. Holst is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he teaches graduate courses in critical pedagogy and the foundations of education. He has spent his 20-year career in community- and work-based adult education in Chicago, teaching in factory lunchrooms, hotels, church basements, government and nongovernmental organizations. He is the author of the book Social Movements, Civil Society, and Radical Adult Education and articles that have appeared in the Adult Education Quarterly, the International Journal of Lifelong Learning, and the Harvard Educational Review.

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Radicalizing Learning calls for a total rethinking of what the field of adult education stands for and how adult educators should assess their effectiveness. Arguing that major changes in society are needed to create a more just world, Brookfield and Holst set out to show how educators can help learners envision and enact this radical transformation.

Noting that the traditional project of adult education is creating and extending a genuinely participatory democracy, the authors focus the book on the purposeful learning adults undertake in pursuit of political and economic democracy, whether in formal programs, community movements, or in self-directed efforts. Having proposed the importance of this kind of learning, they then go on to explore how best to encourage it.

The book outlines the functions of radical teaching and identifies elements of a radical curriculum. Using many illustrative examples, in particular spotlighting temporary, fluctuating, independent, and seasonal workers as a new focus for adult educators, it maps out what radical teaching looks like and discusses its central practices. The authors consider how diversity can sometimes be used to blunt progress even as it appears to be revolutionary and offer three projects for radical diversity. In addition, Radicalizing Learning proposes key questions that can guide radical participatory research.

Offering an overview of the theory and practice of adult education from the particular perspective the authors call "radical," the book is designed as an alternative introduction to the field, covering the traditional topics of adult learning, adult development, program planning, training, teaching, and research. In conclusion, Brookfield and Holst look to the future for adult education to create a just world.

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Radicalizing Learning calls for a total rethinking of what the field of adult education stands for and how adult educators should assess their effectiveness. Arguing that major changes in society are needed to create a more just world, Brookfield and Holst set out to show how educators can help learners envision and enact this radical transformation.

Noting that the traditional project of adult education is creating and extending a genuinely participatory democracy, the authors focus the book on the purposeful learning adults undertake in pursuit of political and economic democracy, whether in formal programs, community movements, or in self-directed efforts. Having proposed the importance of this kind of learning, they then go on to explore how best to encourage it.

The book outlines the functions of radical teaching and identifies elements of a radical curriculum. Using many illustrative examples, in particular spotlighting temporary, fluctuating, independent, and seasonal workers as a new focus for adult educators, it maps out what radical teaching looks like and discusses its central practices. The authors consider how diversity can sometimes be used to blunt progress even as it appears to be revolutionary and offer three projects for radical diversity. In addition, Radicalizing Learning proposes key questions that can guide radical participatory research.

Offering an overview of the theory and practice of adult education from the particular perspective the authors call "radical," the book is designed as an alternative introduction to the field, covering the traditional topics of adult learning, adult development, program planning, training, teaching, and research. In conclusion, Brookfield and Holst look to the future for adult education to create a just world.