The Power of Critical Theory for Adult Learning and TeachingOpen University Press, 2005 - 416 Seiten This contribution to the literature on adult education provides adult educators with an accessible overview of critical theory's central ideas. Using many direct quotes from the theorists' works, Brookfield shows how critical theory illuminates the everyday practices of adult educators and helps them make sense of the dilemmas, contradictions and frustrations they experience in their work. Drawing widely on central texts in critical theory, Brookfield argues that a critical theory of adult learning must focus on understanding how adults learn to challenge ideology, contest hegemony, unmask power, overcome alienation, learn liberation, reclaim reason and practice democracy. These tasks form the focus of successive chapters, while later chapters review the central contentions of critical theory through the contemporary lenses of race and gender. The final chapter reviews adult educational practices and looks at what it means to teach critically. -- |
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... sense of some aspect of the world . To the extent that making sense of existence is a nat- ural human activity , it is accurate to say that we are all theorists and that we all theorize ; in Gramsci's ( 1971 , p . 9 ) terms , “ all men ...
... sense of some aspect of the world . To the extent that making sense of existence is a nat- ural human activity , it is accurate to say that we are all theorists and that we all theorize ; in Gramsci's ( 1971 , p . 9 ) terms , “ all men ...
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... sense of free agency where they feel they possess the desire , capacity , and resources to shape the world according to their desires ? How do adults learn to recognize the varying degrees of freedom that can be experienced in different ...
... sense of free agency where they feel they possess the desire , capacity , and resources to shape the world according to their desires ? How do adults learn to recognize the varying degrees of freedom that can be experienced in different ...
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... sense of vocational calling ) , they receive less opprobrium for being unavailable to students . Vocation becomes hegemonic when it is embedded in institu- tional culture and interpreted to mean that one should be willing to sacrifice ...
... sense of vocational calling ) , they receive less opprobrium for being unavailable to students . Vocation becomes hegemonic when it is embedded in institu- tional culture and interpreted to mean that one should be willing to sacrifice ...
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The Learning Tasks of Critical Theory | 39 |
Contesting Hegemony | 94 |
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activists adult education adult educational practice adult learning African American Africentric alienation analysis Angela Davis argues become believe bell hooks capitalism capitalist challenge chapter civil society communicative action concept consciousness contemporary Cornel West critical pedagogy critical reflection critical theory critical thinking cultural Davis democracy Dialectic of Enlightenment disciplinary power discourse discussion dominant ideology economic emancipatory emphasis everyday exercise existence experience feminism feminist focus Foucault Frankfurt School freedom Freire Fromm gender Gramsci Habermas hegemony hooks Horkheimer human ical ideas ideology critique individual labor language learners liberation lifeworld Lindeman live Marcuse Marcuse's Marx Marx's Marxist means Mezirow oppression organic intellectuals participants particular patriarchy perspective philosophical political production public sphere racial racism radical rationality reality realize reason repressive repressive tolerance revolutionary self-directed social structures struggle teacher teaching theorists theory of adult theory's thought tion tradition transformative transformative learning understanding West women