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Making space : merging theory and practice in adult education

Author: Vanessa Sheared; Peggy A Sissel
Publisher: Westport, CT : Bergin & Garvey, 2001.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Vanessa Sheared; Peggy A Sissel
ISBN: 0897896009 9780897896009 0897896017 9780897896016
OCLC Number: 44518254
Description: xvi, 359 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: edited by Vanessa Sheared and Peggy A. Sissel ; foreword by Phyllis M. Cunningham.

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