The handbook of race and adult education: a resource for dialogue on racism

This landmark book provides the field of Adult and Continuing Education with a dialogical model regarding the discussion of race and racism (socio-cultural, socio-historical and intellectual) from social, educational, political and psychological perspectives, and seeks to articulate a conceptual challenge to the ethnocentric focus of the discussion in the field. While much attention hasbeen given to inclusion, diversity, and multiculturalism within adult education, this is the first comprehensive book to engage in a dialogue specifically about race or racism and the impending effect these factors have on the marginalization or oppression of groups and individuals within the multiple educational, political or corporate settings that they find themselves needing to navigate. Clearly, adult educators must be challenged to ‘practice what they preach’ and engage in a critically reflective process in examining their own racialidentity and how it shapes their worldview. To that end the purpose of this book will be to offer adult education scholars, as well as those engaged in research and teaching about race with an opportunity to engage in a discourse about race and racism and: 1) how these factors have been examined through multiple theoretical frameworks; 2) how it has effected ones lived experiences at work, home and within educational settings; 3) how it has served to privilege some and not others and; 4) to offer an exploration into how these factors need to be centered in a discourse and perspective that can provide those in the margins as well as in the center with ways to think about creating changes in their classrooms, communities and homes.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-38176-2
• Editorial: Jossey-Bass
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 388
• Fecha Publicación: 03/06/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés