Description
Book SynopsisâœStephen Brookfield disturbs and enriches the entire field of adult learning with this brilliant piece of teaching.âRobert Kegan, Harvard University, USA. âœSimplifying 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.âMark Tennant, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
âœI learned more from this book than from dozens of other adult education publicationsâ This book is sure to become a major reference text in the field.âElizabeth Hayes, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
âœâA lucid, accessible overview of how critical theory (with its daunting vocabularies and internal debates) illuminates the contexts of adult learning and orients teaching practices.âMichael Welton, Mount St. Vincent University, Canada.
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Table of Contents
Preface
The Author
Chapter (1) Exploring the Meaning of Critical Theory for Adult Learning
Chapter (2) The Learning Tasks of Critical Theory
Chapter (3) Challenging Ideology
Chapter (4) Contesting Hegemony
Chapter (5) Unmasking Power
Chapter (6) Overcoming Alienation
Chapter (7) Learning Liberation
Chapter (8) Reclaiming Reason
Chapter (9) Learning Democracy
Chapter (10) Racializing Criticality
Chapter (11) Gendering Criticality
Chapter (12) Teaching Criticality
References
Name Index
Subject Index
