Stephen Brookfield
Stephen Brookfield is a scholar in adult education who has held positions at the University of British Columbia, Columbia University, Harvard University University of Saint Thomas and Antioch University. He is currently adjunct professor at Columbia University, and emeritus professor at the University of St. Thomas.
Education
Brookfield earned his Ph.D. from the University of Leicester in 1980 and wrote a thesis on .Career
In his teaching career, Brookfield has worked in England, Canada, Australia, and the United States, teaching in a variety of college settings. He has written nineteen books on adult learning, adult teaching, critical thinking,, critical theory as well as critical pedagogy and '. His overall project is to help adults learn to think critically about the dominant ideologies they have internalized and how these can be challenged. Influenced by the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory and American Pragmatism he has written extensively on how to use methods of critical reflection and discussion based teaching to uncover ideologies such as white supremacy and patriarchy. His twenty first book titled in 2023 by Routledge, co-authored by Juergen Rudolph & Shannon Tan. was published by in 2021. ''Many of his ideas are influential across the discipline of adult education and beyond. In particular, his Four Lenses of Critical Reflection suggest that educators should continuously reflect on their own practice through four lenses: their own experiences, the perspectives of their students, feedback from their colleagues, and the ideas contained in scholarship. Applying these lenses to our practice can help us become more rounded, critically reflective practitioners. In Recent years Brookfield has focused much of his scholarship on issues relating to white supremacy and how this intersects with adult education and critical reflection. This work particularly emphasizes the importance of addressing power and systemic racism in our institutions and classrooms many of which remain predominantly white.Awards
Brookfield has three honorary doctor of letters degrees; from the University System of New Hampshire in 1991, from Concordia University, St. Paul in 2003, and from Muhlenberg College in 2010. He won the Cyril O. Houle six times, as well as the 1986, all awarded by the . At the University of St. Thomas he has won the award for as an exemplary scholar-teacher and the university's Diversity Leadership Teaching and Research Award. His work has been translated into several languages including Korean, German, Finnish, Japanese, Danish, Polish, Persian and Chinese. In 2001 he received the Leadership Award from the for "extraordinary contributions to the general field of continuing education on a national and international level", and in 2008 he was awarded the, awarded by the . In 2009 he was inducted into the . He won the 2014 awarded by the for his book .Selected bibliography
Books
. 2018.- https://styluspub.presswarehouse.com/browse/book/9781620368596/. Stephen Brookfield and Mary Hess. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2021.
Chapters in books
- Disrupting Whiteness: The Productive Disturbance of George Yancy's Work on White Identity & the White Gaze. In, K. Ducey. George Yancy: A Critical Reader. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Forthcoming.
- . In, A. Mandell & Elana Michelson. . San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
- Uncovering White Supremacy" In, . New York: Routledge
- Critical Thinking and Its Limitations: Can We Think Our Way Out of White Supremacy?" In, . Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
- , Vol. 7, No. 3 2019.
- Repressive Tolerance and the 'Management' of Diversity" In,
- White Teachers in Diverse Classrooms: Using Narrative to Address Teaching About Racial Dynamics." In, C. Scott & J. Sims, Hershey, PA: IGI Publishing
Journal articles
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