Research Catalog

Title

Making space : merging theory and practice in adult education / edited by Vanessa Sheared and Peggy A. Sissel ; foreword by Phyllis M. Cunningham.

Publication

Westport, CT : Bergin & Garvey, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sheared, Vanessa, 1956-
• Sissel, Peggy A.

Description

xvi, 359 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Annotation

Subject

• Adult education > Social aspects > United States
• Discrimination in education > United States
• Critical pedagogy > United States
• Adult education > Social aspects
• Critical pedagogy
• Discrimination in education
• Erwachsenenbildung
• Rassismus
• Sexismus
• Aufsatzsammlung
• United States
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Phyllis M. Cunningham -- Opening the gates : reflections on power, hegemony, language, and the status quo / Peggy A. Sissel, Vanessa Sheared -- Incorporating postmodernist perspectives into adult education / David F. Hemphill -- Challenging adult learning : a feminist perspective / Daniele D. Flannery, Elisabeth Hayes -- Talking about whiteness : "adult learning principles" and the invisible norm / Sue Shore -- An invisible presence, silenced voices : African Americans in the adult education professoriate / Sherwood E. Smith, Scipio A.J. Colin III -- The African American market woman : her past, our future / Cheryl A. Smith -- Creating an intellectual basis for friendship : practice and politics in a white women's study group / Jane M. Hugo -- Northern philanthropy's ideological 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 M. Schied -- The role of adult education in workplace ageism / Su fen Liu, Frances Rees -- Communities in the classroom : critical reflections on adult education in an Appalachian community / Mary Beth Bingman, 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 -- African American women of inspiration / Angela Humphrey 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, "Mira" -- Using queer cultural studies to transgress adult educational space / Andre P. Grace -- Feminist perspectives on adult education : constantly shifting identities in constantly changing times / Elizabeth J. Tisdell -- Between a rock and a hard place : confronting who "we" are / Merilyn Childs -- Technologies of learning and work : disciplining the self / John Garrick, Nicky Solomon -- The political economy of adult education : implications for practice / Jorge Jeria -- What does research, resistance, and inclusion mean for adult education practice? A reflective response / Vanessa Sheared, Peggy A. Sissel.

ISBN

• 0897896009
• 9780897896009
• 0897896017
• 9780897896016

LCCN

00057928

OCLC

• ocm44518254
• 44518254
• SCSB-1220489

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library