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ERIC Number: EJ679385
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0017-8055
Racializing the Discourse of Adult Education.
Brookfield, Stephen D.
Harvard Educational Review, v73 n4 p497-523 Win 2003
Suggests that unproblematized Eurocentrism characterizes adult education; explores the works of Cornel West and Lucius Outlaw, who racialize adult education discourse. Considers implications of their perspectives on critical thinking and offers recommendations for challenging the myth of neutral nonimpositional adult education. (Contains 74 references.) (Author/SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Critical Theory, Critical Thinking, Discourse Analysis, Ideology, Racial Bias
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Eurocentrism; Marcuse (Herbert); Tolerance