Making Space : Merging Theory and Practice in Adult Education

by Sheared, Vanessa

• ISBN13: 9780897896016
• ISBN10: 0897896017
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-30
• Publisher: ABC CLIO LTD

Summary

Building on new, emerging perspectives, Making Space examines the phenomenon of adult learning through multiple voices and promotes a critical analysis of the functions, structures, and activities that have perpetuated the silence and invisibility of marginalized groups in the field of adult education.

Author Biography

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.PEGGY A. SISSEL was formerly an Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Phyllis M. Cunningham
Acknowledgments	xv
I Deconstructing Exclusion and Inclusion in Adult Education	1	(70)
Opening the Gates: Reflections on Power, Hegemony, Language, and the Status Quo	3	(12)
Peggy A. Sissel
Vanessa Sheared
Incorporating Postmodernist Perspectives into Adult Education	15	(14)
David F. Hemphill
Challenging Adult Learning: A Feminist Perspective	29	(13)
Daniele D. Flannery
Elisabeth Hayes
Talking about Whiteness: ``Adult Learning Principles'' and the Invisible Norm	42	(15)
Sue Shore
An Invisible Presence, Silenced Voices: African Americans in the Adult Education Professoriate	57	(14)
Sherwood E. Smith
Scipio A. J. Colin III
II History Revisited and Claimed	71	(82)
The African-American Market Woman: Her Past, Our Future	73	(16)
Cheryl A. Smith
Creating an Intellectual Basis for Friendship: Practice and Politics in a White Women's Study Group	89	(20)
Jane M. Hugo
Northern Philanthropy's Ideological Influence on African-American Adult Education in the Rural South	109	(15)
Bernadine S. Chapman
Struggling to Learn, Learning to Struggle: Workers, Workplace Learning, and the Emergence of Human Resource Development	124	(14)
Fred M. Schied
The Role of Adult Education in Workplace Ageism	138	(15)
Su-fen Liu
Frances Rees
III. Classrooms and Communities: Contexts, Questions, and Critiques	153	(4)
Communities in the Classroom: Critical Reflections on Adult Education in an Appalachian Community	157	(11)
Mary Beth Bingman
Connie White
Amelia R. B. Kirby
Education, Incarceration, and the Marginalization of Women	168	(14)
Irene C. Baird
Adult Basic Education: Equipped for the Future or for Failure?	182	(13)
Donna Amstutz
Teaching as Political Practice	195	(14)
Ruth Bounous
IV. Cultural Infusion: Reflections on Identity and Practice	209	(287)
African-American Women of Inspiration	213	(14)
Angela Humphrey Brown
Through the Eyes of a Latina: Professional Women in Adult Education	227	(15)
Rosita Lopez Marcano
By My Own Eyes: A Story of Learning and Culture	242	(15)
Lynette Harper
``Mira''
Using Queer Cultural Studies to Transgress Adult Educational Space	257	(14)
Andre P. Grace
Feminist Perspectives on Adult Education: Constantly Shifting Identities in Constantly Changing Times	271	(16)
Elizabeth J. Tisdell
V. Reconstructing the Field: Our Personal and Collective Identities	287	(50)
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Confronting Who ``We'' Are	289	(12)
Merilyn Childs
Technologies of Learning at Work: Disciplining the Self	301	(13)
John Garrick
Nicky Solomon
The Political Economy of Adult Education: Implications for Practice	314	(12)
Jorge Jeria
What Does Research, Resistance, and Inclusion Mean for Adult Education Practice? A Reflective Response	326	(11)
Vanessa Sheared
Peggy A. Sissel
Index	337	(18)
About the Contributors	355