THE JOSSEY-BASS READER ON Contemporary Issues in Adult Education
With contributions from leading experts in the field, The Jossey-Bass Reader on Contemporary Issues in Adult Education collects in one volume the best previously published literature on the issues and trends affecting adult education today. The volume includes influential pieces from foundational authors in the profession such as Eduard C. Lindeman, Alain Locke, and Paulo Freire, as well as current work from authors around the world, including Laura L. Bierema, John M. Dirkx, Cecilia Amaluisa Fiallos, Peter Jarvis, Michael Newman, and Shirley Walters.
In five sections, the book's thirty chapters delve into a wide range of compelling topics including:
social justice, democracy, and activism diversity and marginalization human resource development lifelong learning ethical issues the meaning and role of emotions globalization and non-Western perspectives the role of mass media, popular culture, and ""social learning"" technology health, welfare, and environment
Each piece is framed within its larger context by the editors, and each section is accompanied by helpful reflection and discussion questions.
SOURCES xi PREFACE xvii THE EDITORS xxi ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS xxiii PART ONE DEFINING A FIELD OF PRACTICE: THE FOUNDATIONS OF ADULT EDUCATION 1 1 For Those Who Need to Be Learners 7 Eduard C. Lindeman 2 The Negro in America 12 Alain Locke 3 Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Chapter 2 20 Paulo Freire 4 Building a Knowledge Base in U.S. Academic Adult Education(1945–1970) 33 Andre´ P. Grace 5 Adult Education at the Margins: A Literature Review 56 Michelle Glowacki-Dudka and Lora B. Helvie-Mason 6 African Americans in Adult Education: The Harlem Renaissance Revisited 67 Juanita Johnson-Bailey 7 Ethical Issues and Codes of Ethics: Views of Adult Education Practitioners in Canada and the United States 87 Wanda Gordon and Thomas J. Sork PART TWO POSITIONING ADULT EDUCATION IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT 107 8 Rediscovering Adult Education in a World of Lifelong Learning 113 Peter Jarvis 9 Research and Policy in Lifelong Learning 120 Colin Griffin 10 Social Movements, Class, and Adult Education 138 Shirley Walters 11 Social Change Education: Context Matters 149 Kathryn Choules 12 Adult Education and the Empowerment of the Individual in a Global Society 170 Cecilia Amaluisa Fiallos 13 Active and Inclusive Citizenship for Women: Democratic Considerations for Fostering Lifelong Education 186 Patricia A. Gouthro PART THREE ADULT EDUCATION’S CONSTITUENCIES AND PROGRAM AREAS: COMPETING INTERESTS? 203 14 Social Class and Adult Education 207 Tom Nesbit 15 Poverty Reduction and Adult Education: Beyond Basic Education 219 Ruud van der Veen and Julia Preece 16 Aligning Health Promotion and Adult Education for Healthier Communities 234 Barbara J. Daley 17 Critiquing Human Resource Development’s Dominant Masculine Rationality and Evaluating Its Impact 247 Laura L. Bierema 18 Organizational Learning Communities and the Dark Side of the Learning Organization 280 Phillip H. Owenby 19 Negotiating Democratically for Educational and Political Outcomes 291 Ronald M. Cervero and Arthur L. Wilson PART FOUR THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF ADULT LEARNING 311 20 Reflection Disempowered 315 Michael Newman 21 A Theory in Progress 321 Patricia Cranton 22 ‘‘Social Learning’’ for/in Adult Education?: A Discursive Review of What It Means for Learning to Be ‘‘Social’’ 340 Kim L. Niewolny and Arthur L. Wilson 23 The Meaning and Role of Emotions in Adult Learning 349 John M. Dirkx 24 Adult Education and the Mass Media in the Age of Globalization 363 Talmadge C. Guy 25 Non-Western Perspectives on Learning and Knowing 378 Sharan B. Merriam and Young Sek Kim PART FIVE NEW DISCOURSES SHAPING CONTEMPORARY ADULT EDUCATION 391 26 Attending to the Theoretical Landscape in Adult Education 395 Valerie-Lee Chapman 27 Popular Culture, Cultural Resistance, and Anticonsumption Activism: An Exploration of Culture Jamming as Critical Adult Education 401 Jennifer A. Sandlin 28 Toward a Postmodern Pedagogy 413 Deborah Kilgore 29 Activism as Practice: Some Queer Considerations 424 Robert J. Hill 30 Using Freirean Pedagogy of Just Ire to Inform Critical Social Learning in Arts-Informed Community Education for Sexual Minorities 436 Andre´ P. Grace and Kristopher Wells NAME INDEX 459 SUBJECT INDEX 467
THE EDITORS Sharan B. Merriam is professor emeritus of adult education and qualitative research at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than twenty-six books, including Learning in Adulthood, The Profession and Practice of Adult Education, and The New Update on Adult Learning Theory, all from Jossey-Bass. André P. Grace is a professor in educational policy studies and director of the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services in the Faculty of Education, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. He is the coauthor of Challenging the Professionalization of Adult Education from Jossey-Bass.
