Making Space Merging Theory and Practice in Adult Education

Subjects:

• Education » Adult/Continuing Education

Reviews:

• ... aimed at scholars and practitioners in the field of adult education, presents a variety of critical adult education and lifelong learning frameworks that make "spaces" not only for established voices but also for voices from such marginalized others as Latinos, gays and lesbians, and feminists....will appeal to social activists and adult education practitioners, members of the general public who wish to understand their underrepresented views, and adult education practitioners who seek to expand programs that attract social activists.
  —Choice November 2002

• Endorsement From Harold W. Stubblefield
  Professor Emeritus, Adult Learning & Human Development
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University: A pioneering, comprehensive, and ambitious attempt to construct a new adult education theory and practice.
• Endorsement From Angela Miles
  Professor of Adult Education
  University of Toronto: Making Space: Merging Theory to Practice in Adult Education is a wonderful collection of reflective and visionary articles which goes well beyond criticism to redefine the field of adult education. Respectful and intelligent editing has achieved a clarity of expression and consistency of theme and focus that is rare in such a diverse and rich collection.
• Endorsement From Juanita Johnson-Bailey
  Assistant Professor of Adult Education
  University of Georgia: Making Space: Merging Theory to Practice in Adult Education is an essential and timely text for educators, students, and practitioners. The critical and reflective essays contained in this book challenge the field's current perspective and engages the existing literature in a debate that is sorely needed and long absent. Sheared and Sissel have edited a book that is a breath of fresh rigorous theoretical air with chapters that are diverse in approaches and with authors who represent inclusive viewpoints.
• Endorsement From Dr. Joyce Stalker
  School of Education
  University of Waikato, New Zealand: The importance of this book lies as much in its evolution as in its rich content...[A]n important reminder of the many voices and viewpoints which are too often ignored....In sum, this book offers the field a useful tool which can be used to foster reflection, reflexivity, critical thinking and a more informed dialogue.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword The Beginning: A Response Phyllis Cunningham
• Deconstructing Exclusion and Inclusion in AE
• Opening the Gates: Reflections on Power, Hegemony, Language, and the Status Quo Peggy A. Sissel and Vanessa Sheared
• Incorporating Postmodernist Perspectives into Adult Education David F. Hemphill
• Challenging Adult Learning: A Feminist Perspective Daniele D. Flannery and Elizabeth Hayes
• Talking About Whiteness: `Adult Learning Principles' and the Invisible Norm Sue Shore
• An Invisible Presence, Silenced Voices: African-Americans Americans in the Adult Education Professoriate Sherwood E. Smith and Scipio A. J. Colin III
• History Revisited and Claimed
• African-American Market Woman: Her Past, Our Future Cheryl Smith
• Creating an Intellectual Basis for Friendship: Practice and Politics in a White Women's Study Group Jane M. Hugo
• Northern Philanthropy's Ideology Influence on African-American Adult Education in the Rural South Bernadine S. Chapman
• Struggling to Learn, Learning to Struggle: Workers, Workplace Learning, and the Emergence of Human Resource Development Fred Schied
• The Role of Adult Education in Workplace Ageism Su-fen Liu and Frances Rees
• Classrooms and/or Communities: Contexts, Questions, and Critiques
• Communities in the Classroom: Critical Reflections in an Appalachian Community Mary Beth Bingham and Connie White with Amelia R. B. Kirby
• Education, Incarceration, and the Marginalization of Women Irene C. Baird
• Adult Basic Education: Equipped for the Future or for Failure? Donna Amstutz
• Teaching as Political Practice Ruth Bounous
• Cultural Infusion: Reflections on Identity and Practice
• African-American Women of Inspiration Angela Humphery Brown
• Through the Eyes of a Latina: Professional Women in Adult Education Rosita Lopez Marcano
• By My Own Eyes: A Story of Learning and Culture Lynette Harper and "Mira"
• Using Queer Cultural Studies to Transgress Adult Educational Space André P. Grace
• Feminist Perspectives on Adult Education: Constantly Shifting Identities in Constantly Changing Times Elizabeth J. Tisdell
• Reconstructing the Field: Our Personal and Collective Identities
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Confronting Who `We' Are Merilyn Childs
• Technologies of Learning at Work: Disciplining the Self John Garrick and Nicky Solomon
• The Political Economy of Adult Education: Implications for Practice Jorge Jeria
• What Does Research, Resistence and Inclusion Mean for Adult Education Practice? A Reflective Response Vanessa Sheared and Peggy A. Sissel