Leading Democratically in Adult Education - Number 128, Winter 2010

Klappentext Adult education in the United States has its roots in democracy. The editors and contributors of this volume build on that historical relationship and examine an adult education practice that not only shapes minds! but also seeks to build communities of collaborative action. Zusammenfassung Adult education in the United States has its roots in democracy. The editors and contributors of this volume build on that historical relationship and examine an adult education practice that not only shapes minds! but also seeks to build communities of collaborative action. Inhaltsverzeichnis EDITORS NOTES (Dianne Ramdeholl! Tania Giordani! Thomas Heaney! Wendy Yanow). 1. Leading Democratically (Stephen Brookfield). This chapter explores the attributes of a democratic leadership that carefully attends to the extraordinary knowledge of ordinary people and to the voices of those most affected by the decisions the leader must make. 2. Democracy Is in the Details: Small Writing Groups. Prefiguring a New Society (Janise Hurtig! Hal Adams). This chapter describes the role of popular educators in creating educational spaces in which members of oppressed groups are able to give voice to their experiences spaces that are fundamentally democratic and dialogic. 3. Everybody Had a Piece ... : Collaborative Practice and Shared Decision Making at the Open Book (John Gordon! Dianne Ramdeholl). Through retelling the story of an adult literacy program in New York the Open Book the authors describe the possibilities for establishing and sustaining democratic communities in the context of today s literacy programs. 4. Radically Democratic Learning in the Grounded In-Between (Mechthild Hart). The author asks us to consider what happens when capitalist and global markets have rendered democratic institutions both dangerous and predatory and how can we counter these socioeconomic forces in our democratic relations with each other and with nature. 5. Productive and Participatory: Basic Education for High-Performing and Actively Engaged Workers (Paul Jurmo). This chapter describes the barriers to democracy in the workplace! while challenging workplace educators to develop programs that contribute to organizational efficiency and enable workers to attain high levels of control and responsibility. 6. Race! Power! and Democracy in the Graduate Classroom (Dianne Ramdeholl! Tania Giordani! Thomas Heaney! Wendy Yanow). Three graduates and one faculty member reflect critically on their experience in an adult education doctoral program that placed democratic practice at the forefront of its curriculum. 7. Democracy! Shared Governance! and the University (Thomas Heaney). This chapter examines the possibility and potential for the democratic practice of shared governance in a major venue of adult education the academy. 8. Democracy and Program Planning (Arthur L. Wilson! Ronald M. Cervero). This chapter recounts the ambiguities of extending the practice of democratic program planning to academic leadership and decision making in the administration of departments and programs in the university. 9. Blues Is Easy to Play But Hard to Feel (Jimi Hendrix) (Wendy Yanow). In reflecting on the various experiences of authors in this book! this final chapter concludes that democracy is messy and complex! but nonetheless a project that adult educators have a responsibility to move forward. Index. ...

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• Authors: ACE, Adult and Continuing Education, Adult and Continuing Education (Ace), Dianne Giordani Ramdeholl
• Assisted by: Tania Giordani (Editor), Tom Heaney (Editor), Ramdeholl (Editor), Dianne Ramdeholl (Editor), Wendy Yanow (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.2011
• EAN: 9781118003022
• ISBN: 978-1-118-00302-2
• No. of pages: 112
• Series: New Directions for Adult & Con; J-B ACE Single Issue Adult & Continuing Education; New Directions for Adult & Con
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system