Lexington Books
Pages: 256
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Trim: 6¼ x 9⅛
978-1-4985-8132-5 • Hardback • November 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-4985-8133-2 • eBook • November 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
Carolyn Chernoff is faculty member at Moore College of Art & Design.
Janise Hurtig is faculty member at DePaul University.
Introduction: Contesting Adult Education
Carolyn Chernoff and Janise Hurtig
Section 1—Contesting Curriculum: Teaching and Learning in Community Education Spaces
Chapter 1: Maps, Flyers, and Notebooks: The Materiality of Experts and Novices in Refugee Education
Jill Koyama
Chapter 2: Rethinking Digital Resources in Adult and Family Literacy: Immigrant Parents’ Perspectives in Digital Literacy Program
Silvia Noguerón-Liu
Chapter 3: A Space Within a Space
Janise Hurtig
Section 2—Contesting Contexts: Teaching and Learning in Institutional Spaces
Chapter 4: Insider Yoga: Bodily Cultivation in Yoga at the River, a Hermetic Male Prison Yoga Community
Sara K. Schneider
Chapter 5: The Call to Wisdom: Warm Demander Pedagogy and the Black Church Sunday School Teacher as Learner
Tryphenia B. Peele-Eady
Chapter 6: Every Voice Matters: Taking Action for Equity
Gretchen Wilbur
Chapter 7: Organizers Leading Learning: Transforming Training at the Latino Union Workers Center
Joseph Zanoni
Section 3— Contesting Community: Teaching and Learning in and across Public Spaces
Chapter 8: “All I Want Is to Breathe. . . . Won’t You Breathe with Me?” The Individual and the Collective in an LGBTQ and Allies Community of Practice
Char Ullman
Chapter 9: Latinx Cultural Programming as Public Pedagogy: Mobilizing Cultura (Culture) in a Small Town Community in Upstate New York
Sofia A. Villenas and Carolina Osorio Gil
Chapter 10: Transnational Lives and Lifelong Learning in Mutual Assistance
Katherine Silvester
Chapter 11: Identity On Parade: Teaching and Learning Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Public
Carolyn Chernoff
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
Hurtig and Chernoff’s edited volume features ethnographic studies conducted in spaces rarely considered in education, challenging traditional approaches to learning. This book will prove valuable to people interested in social activism and community-based learning. The variety of ways community members use alternatives and implement unorthodox approaches to learning and teaching is sure to aid readers in challenging their own practices. Highly recommended to ethnographers and educationalists, as well as current and pre-service educators.
— Anthropology & Education Quarterly
[T]his is a very valuable book. . . For many engaged in the traditional academic study of adult education, taking up new research lenses from outside the field may feel like stepping into uncharted terrain. The ethnographies in this new collection offer scholars of adult education an excellent introduction to the landscape. And, as adult educators know, we make the road by walking.
— Teachers College Record
The editors and authors of this essential volume deliver an ethnographic tour de force. Somehow, both gently and forcefully, using language of vernacular and theory, they contest our facile dichotomies of teaching and learning, practitioner and academic, school and out-of-school, adult and child. This remarkably diverse set of case studies introduces a panoply of enriching practices and understandings of adult education in the United States. It also enables readers to see afresh the dynamic cultural production that meaningful teaching and learning always entails.— Bradley A. Levinson, Indiana University
In this groundbreaking book, we see the start of a much-needed conversation on the often neglected, yet critically important, ways that adults fight against the commodification of their experience. Eschewing a focus only on formal settings, the contributors explore multiple activist spaces in which adults are trying to exercise their collective power. This is a must-read for anyone interested in critical resistance and adult educational processes that animate people's agency.— Stephen D. Brookfield, University of St. Thomas
Through luminous, critical ethnographic vignettes, the contributors to this edited collection deftly explode dominant, pragmatist notions of adult education and demonstrate how educational practices and policies in the United States are riven by cultural politics.— Lesley Bartlett, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
This collection of critical ethnographies of adult teaching and learning is an exhilarating journey across educative spaces that contests conventional practices and definitions of teaching and learning. Through the examination of diverse settings in adult education, this anthology insists on the conceptualization of community spaces as locations where new social identities and learning communities are co-constructed within meaningful and enduring relationships.— Norma Gonzalez, University of Arizona