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Making Space Merging Theory and Practice in Adult Education
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Vanessa Sheared, Peggy A. Sissel, ed.
ISBN: 0-89789-601-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-601-6
376 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 6/30/2001
List Price: $45.00 (UK Sterling Price: £31.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: 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 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 realties 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 language that is accessible and inclusive
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
About the Author: VANESSA SHEARED is Associate Dean in the College of Education at San Francisco State University, where she has been actively involved in working with both public, community based, and higher education programs./e She served on the Board of Directors of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education Conference for five years.

PEGGY A. SISSEL was formerly an Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. /e She was also a former member of the Commission of Professors in Adult Education Board of Directors.
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