Racializing the Discourse of Adult Education

Autor/in	Brookfield, Stephen
Titel	Racializing the Discourse of Adult Education
Quelle	In: International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 5 (2014) 4, S.20-41, Artikel 2 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1947-8607
DOI	10.4018/ijavet.2014100102
Schlagwörter	Adult Education; Racial Bias; Social Attitudes; Minority Groups; Adult Learning; African Americans; Whites; Afrocentrism; Ethnocentrism; Consciousness Raising; Critical Theory; Race; Power Structure; Philosophy; Ideology; Epistemology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Ethnische Minderheit; Adulte education; Afroamerikaner; White; Weißer; Afro-centrisme; Afrozentrismus; Ethnozentrismus; Bewusstseinsbildung; Kritische Theorie; Rasse; Abstammung; Philosophie; Ideologie; Erkenntnistheorie
Abstract	Adult education scholarship has been racialized through the lens of Eurocentric theory and research. Theoretical paradigms such as Africentrism struggle to gain academic legitimacy as discourses of transformative learning, critical thinking and self-direction--all grounded in the European Enlightenment tradition of the individual pursuit of rational self-knowledge--hold sway. This article reviews the way that repressive tolerance serves to broaden the field of adult education by including racially based perspectives on adult learning, yet simultaneously ensures that they are always seen as an exotic alternative to what is clearly the mainstream Eurocentric perspective. It reviews the way that discourses of criticality can be reinterpreted from the perspective of the African American lifeworld and explores in detail the work of Lucius T. Outlaw Jr. and Cornel West. Both scholars draw partly from the tradition of European critical theory in their attempts to use its central analytical categories (such as alienation, lifeworld, objectification and hegemony) to understand the African American experience. The piece ends with a consideration of how the dominant Eurocentric perspective in adult education can be critiques and challenged. (As Provided).
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