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This edited collection of critical practitioner-based ethnographies explores how adults teach and learn across diverse formal and informal educational spaces. Contested Spaces of Teaching and Learning illustrates the myriad ways in which the process of adults teaching and learning is profoundly social, transformational, and linked to social change.
List of contents
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
About the author
Edited by Janise Hurtig and Carolyn Chernoff - Contributions by Carolyn Chernoff; Janise Hurtig; Jill Koyama; Silvia Noguerón-Liu; Carolina Osorio Gil; Tryphenia B. Peele-Eady; Sara K. Schneider; Katherine Silvester; Char Ullman; Sofia A. Villenas; Gretch
Summary
This edited collection of critical practitioner-based ethnographies explores how adults teach and learn across diverse formal and informal educational spaces. Contested Spaces of Teaching and Learning illustrates the myriad ways in which the process of adults teaching and learning is profoundly social, transformational, and linked to social change.
