Making Space : Merging Theory and Practice in

Building on new, emerging perspectives, Making Space examines the phenomenon of adult learning through multiple voices and promotes a critical analysis of the functions, structures, and activities that have perpetuated the silence and invisibility of marginalized groups in the field of adult education.

VANESSA SHEARED is Associate Dean in the College of Education at San Francisco State University, where she has been actively involved in working with both public, community based, and higher education programs.PEGGY A. SISSEL was formerly an Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Foreword

xi

Phyllis M. Cunningham

Acknowledgments

xv

I Deconstructing Exclusion and Inclusion in Adult Education

1

(70)

Opening the Gates: Reflections on Power, Hegemony, Language, and the Status Quo

3

(12)

Peggy A. Sissel

Vanessa Sheared

Incorporating Postmodernist Perspectives into Adult Education

15

(14)

David F. Hemphill

Challenging Adult Learning: A Feminist Perspective

29

(13)

Daniele D. Flannery

Elisabeth Hayes

Talking about Whiteness: ``Adult Learning Principles'' and the Invisible Norm

42

(15)

Sue Shore

An Invisible Presence, Silenced Voices: African Americans in the Adult Education Professoriate

57

(14)

Sherwood E. Smith

Scipio A. J. Colin III

II History Revisited and Claimed

71

(82)

The African-American Market Woman: Her Past, Our Future

73

(16)

Cheryl A. Smith

Creating an Intellectual Basis for Friendship: Practice and Politics in a White Women's Study Group

89

(20)

Jane M. Hugo

Northern Philanthropy's Ideological Influence on African-American Adult Education in the Rural South

109

(15)

Bernadine S. Chapman

Struggling to Learn, Learning to Struggle: Workers, Workplace Learning, and the Emergence of Human Resource Development

124

(14)

Fred M. Schied

The Role of Adult Education in Workplace Ageism

138

(15)

Su-fen Liu

Frances Rees

III. Classrooms and Communities: Contexts, Questions, and Critiques

153

(4)

Communities in the Classroom: Critical Reflections on Adult Education in an Appalachian Community

157

(11)

Mary Beth Bingman

Connie White

Amelia R. B. Kirby

Education, Incarceration, and the Marginalization of Women

168

(14)

Irene C. Baird

Adult Basic Education: Equipped for the Future or for Failure?

182

(13)

Donna Amstutz

Teaching as Political Practice

195

(14)

Ruth Bounous

IV. Cultural Infusion: Reflections on Identity and Practice

209

(287)

African-American Women of Inspiration

213

(14)

Angela Humphrey Brown

Through the Eyes of a Latina: Professional Women in Adult Education

227

(15)

Rosita Lopez Marcano

By My Own Eyes: A Story of Learning and Culture

242

(15)

Lynette Harper

``Mira''

Using Queer Cultural Studies to Transgress Adult Educational Space

257

(14)

Andre P. Grace

Feminist Perspectives on Adult Education: Constantly Shifting Identities in Constantly Changing Times

271

(16)

Elizabeth J. Tisdell

V. Reconstructing the Field: Our Personal and Collective Identities

287

(50)

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Confronting Who ``We'' Are

289

(12)

Merilyn Childs

Technologies of Learning at Work: Disciplining the Self

301

(13)

John Garrick

Nicky Solomon

The Political Economy of Adult Education: Implications for Practice

314

(12)

Jorge Jeria

What Does Research, Resistance, and Inclusion Mean for Adult Education Practice? A Reflective Response

326

(11)

Vanessa Sheared

Peggy A. Sissel

Index

337

(18)

About the Contributors

355

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Making Space : Merging Theory and Practice in Adult Education

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