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Miller, Brian; Schwartz, Joni – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2016
This chapter is a call to action for adult educators to critically engage the Black Lives Matter Movement through pedagogy, community engagement and scholarly activism. It explores the intersection of the Black Lives Matter movement and adult education by highlighting the response of one community college initiative.
Descriptors: Adult Education, Activism, Critical Theory, Community Colleges
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Osborne, Richard; Schwartz, Joni – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2016
The chapter captures the tensions around the research and "common wisdom" that college is an imperative for all young Black males.
Descriptors: Independent Study, Males, Outcomes of Education, Educational Benefits
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Drayton, Brendaly; Rosser-Mims, Dionne; Schwartz, Joni; Guy, Talmadge C. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2016
This concluding chapter discusses the important contribution Black men's voices have made and can make to adult education theory and practice. Particular emphasis is placed on troubling the various factors that contribute to the silencing of those voices.
Descriptors: Adult Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Males, African American Influences
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Schwartz, Joni – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
This chapter is based on the findings of an ethnographic study of an urban General Education Development (GED®) program and suggests that, for some marginalized African American and other young men of color, adult education programs are counter-spaces (Yosso, Ceja, Smith, & Solorzano, [Yosso, T., 2009]) of spatial justice in opposition to…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Urban Education, General Education, High School Equivalency Programs
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Drayton, Brendaly; Rosser-Mims, Dionne; Schwartz, Joni; Guy, Talmadge C. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
In this concluding chapter, the editors offer their reflections on the key themes of this volume and implications for future research and practitioners of adult education.
Descriptors: Adult Education, African American Students, Males
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Miller, Brian; Mondesir, Joserichsen; Stater, Timothy; Schwartz, Joni – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
This chapter addresses the challenges facing men of color who return to adult education after incarceration. It frames their experience as a war from a sociopolitical and cultural context, and then explains the support men need to succeed both in and outside the classroom.
Descriptors: Reentry Students, Institutionalized Persons, Adult Education, Cultural Context