Focusing on critical theory, this book provides adult educators with a comprehensive overview of its key concepts, such as ideology, power, and liberation. Brookfield uses direct quotes from theorists to connect critical theory to the practical challenges educators face, fostering critical thinking and reflection. The text also examines contemporary issues of race and gender, emphasizing the importance of questioning dogmas and engaging critically in teaching practices. It serves as a vital resource for those involved in adult education.
Energize your classrooms with these key techniques for college teaching
Students say the best teachers get them excited about learning, stretch their
thinking, and keep them actively involved in class.
Focusing on the essential role of critical thinking in education, the book delves into effective teaching strategies that empower students to analyze assumptions, consider diverse viewpoints, and take informed actions. Stephen Brookfield presents a structured approach to fostering critical thinking, drawing from extensive student feedback and offering practical activities tailored for various classroom settings. He emphasizes the need for educators to model critical thinking and provides comprehensive guidance on integrating these skills into curricula and institutional frameworks, ensuring a robust pedagogical toolkit for faculty.
"Do you need a resource that you can pull out of your pocket to liven up meetings, trainings, professional development, and teaching? The fifty easily applied techniques in this timely manual spur creativity, stimulate energy, keep groups focused, and increase participation. Whether you're teaching classes, facilitating employee training, leading organizational or community meetings, furthering staff and professional development, guiding town halls, or working with congregations, The Discussion Book is your go-to guide for improving any group process. Each of the concrete techniques and exercises is clearly described with guidance on selection and implementation, as well as advice on which pitfalls to avoid. All of the techniques: offer new ways to engage people and energize groups; get employees, students, colleagues, constituents, and community members to participate more fully in deliberative decision-making; encourage creativity and openness to new perspectives; increase collaboration and build cohesive teams; keep groups focused on important topics and hard-to-address issues. Derived from the authors' decades of experience using these exercises with schools, colleges, corporations, the military, social movements, health care organizations, prisons, unions, non-profits, and elsewhere, The Discussion Book will help you guide discussions that matter"--Publisher's website
Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of the landmark book
Discussion as a Way of Teaching shows how to plan, conduct, and assess
classroom discussions. Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill suggest
exercises for starting discussions, strategies for maintaining their momentum,
and ways to elicit diverse views and voices.
In this second edition of the book that has become a classic in the field, award-winning author Stephen D. Brookfield offers inspiration and down-to-earth advice to new and seasoned teachers. The Skillful Teacher is a comprehensive guide that shows how to thrive on the unpredictability and diversity of classroom life and includes insights developed from the hundreds of workshops conducted by the author. This new edition also reflects the many changes that have come about in the decade since the book was first published and includes new chapters that deal with emerging topics such as classroom diversity and teaching in online learning environments.
This practical handbook reviews helpful approaches and exercises when working
with older learners. It offers practical applications including using
discussion, incorporating technology and becoming critically reflective. It
tackles some of the major challenges you may face such as addressing
inequality and diversity and dealing with resistance.
Radicalizing Learning calls for a total rethinking of what the field of adult
education stands for and how adult educators should assess their
effectiveness. Arguing that major changes in society are needed to create a
more just world, the authors set out to show how educators can help learners
envision and enact this radical transformation.
