"Stephen Brookfield disturbs and enriches the entire field of adult
learning with this brilliant piece of teaching."Robert Kegan,
Harvard University, USA. "Simplifying without eroding the
complexity of critical theory, Brookfield traverses the grand
themes of ideology, power, alienation, liberation, reason and
democracy; showing how they inform the adult education practice of
fostering critical thinking and critical reflection."Mark Tennant,
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia."I learned more from
this book than from dozens of other adult education publications...
This book is sure to become a major reference text in the
field."Elizabeth Hayes, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. "...A
lucid, accessible overview of how critical theory (with its
daunting vocabularies and internal debates) illuminates the
contexts of adult learning and orients teaching practices."Michael
Welton, Mount St. Vincent University, Canada."This is a
sophisticated and comprehensive treatment of the power of Socratic
questioning of dogmas and a prophetic witness against the
conservative status quo ...a must read for all seriously engaged
teachers."Cornel West, Princeton University, USAThis major
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. Essential
reading for anyone teaching, working in, studying or researching
adult education.
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