Reconceptualizes local, national, and transnational adult education practices in light of neoliberalism and globalization.Honorable Mention, 2017 Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature in the Field of Professional, Continuing, and/or Online Education presented by the University Professional and Continuing Education Association This groundbreaking book critiques the boundaries of where adult education takes place through a candid examination of teaching, learning, and working practices in the social periphery. Lives in this context are diverse and made through complex practices that take place in the shadows of formal systems: on streetscapes and farms, in vehicles and homes, and through underground networks. Educators may be family members, friends, or colleagues, and the curriculum may be based on needs, interests, histories, and cultural practices. The case studies presented here analyze adult education in the lives of sex workers, LGBTQ activists, undocumented migrants, disabled workers, homeless youth, immigrants, inmates, and others. Focusing on learning at the social margins, this book challenges readers to reconceptualize local, national, and transnational adult education practices in light of neoliberalism and globalization.
Robert C. Mizzi is Assistant Professor of Educational Administration at the University of Manitoba, Canada. Tonette S. Rocco is Professor of Adult Education and Human Resource Development at Florida International University. Her books include Transforming the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Lessons from the Classroom (coauthored with Debra M. Pane). Sue Shore is Professor in Education at Charles Darwin University in Australia and the coeditor (with Peter Kell and Michael Singh) of Adult Education @ 21st Century.
ForewordJohn FieldAcknowledgmentsIntroductionStarting Somewhere: Troubling Perspectives of Periphery and Center in Adult and Community EducationRobert C. Mizzi, Sue Shore & Tonette S. RoccoRethinking Locations of Adult Education Practice 1. Lifelong Learning as Critical Action for Sexual and Gender Minorities as a Constituency of the Learner FringeAndré P. Grace2. Youth Development in Context: Housing Instability, Homelessness, and Youth "Work"Naomi Nichols3. A Synergy of Understanding: Intimidation Technologies and Situated Learning in United States and Jamaican PrisonsJoshua C. Collins, Lincoln D. Pettaway, Chaundra L. Whitehead & Steve J. Rios4. Listen Carefully, Act Thoughtfully: Exploring Sex Work as an Adult Education ContextShannon Deer & Dominique T. Chlup5. Using Democratic Deliberation in an Internationalization Effort in Higher EducationHilary Landorf & Eric FeldmanEducators’ Work with "Peripheral" Spaces of Engagement 6. Beyond Death Threats, Hard Times, and Clandestine Work: Illuminating Sexual and Gender Minority Resources in a Global ContextRobert C. Mizzi, Robert Hill & Kim Vance7. Invisible Women: Education, Employment, and Citizenship of Women with Disabilities in BangladeshShuchi Karim8. Moving Beyond Employability Risks and Redundancies: New Microenterprise and Entrepreneurial Possibilities in ChileCarlos A. Albornoz & Tonette S. Rocco9. Shopping at Pine Creek: Rethinking Both-Ways Education through the Context of Remote Aboriginal Australian Ranger TrainingMatthew Campbell & Michael Christie10. Vocational Teacher Education in Australia and the Problem of Racialized HopeSue ShoreImmigrant Experiences of Work and Learning in the New World Order 11. Unauthorized Migrant Workers: (L)Earning a Life in CanadaSusan M. Brigham12. Shifting the Margins: Learning, Knowledge Production, and Social Action in Migrant and Immigrant Worker OrganizingAziz Choudry13. Making the Invisible Visible: The Politics of Recognition in Recognizing Immigrant’s International Credentials and Work ExperienceShibao Guo14. How Welcome Are We?: Immigrants as Targets of Uncivil BehaviorFabiana Brunetta & Thomas G. Reio, Jr.Transnational Adult Education and Global Engagement 15. The Sputnik Moment in the Twenty-First Century: America, China, and the Workforce of the FuturePeter Kell & Marilyn Kell16. Radical International Adult Education: A Pedagogy of SolidarityBob Boughton17. From Generation to Generation: Teaching Adults to Teach about the HolocaustMark J. Webber with Michael Brown18. Study Abroad Programs, International Students, and Global Citizenship: Colonial-Colonizer Relations in Global Higher EducationKorbla P. Puplampu & Lindsay Wodinski19. Teaching, Learning, and Working in the Periphery: Provocations for Researchers and PractitionersSue Shore, Robert C. Mizzi & Tonette S. RoccoList of ContributorsIndex
"…offers a timely and important critique of neoliberal and globalizing premises as they situate adult and community education at local, national, and transnational levels … the book provokes readers to think about ethical values, and how power is marshalled, in adult and community learning." — Adult Education Quarterly
Nelson M. Rodriguez, Robert C. Mizzi, Louisa Allen, Rob Cover, The College of New Jersey) Rodriguez, Nelson M. (Associate Professor of Wome's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Associate Professor of Wome's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Canada) Mizzi, Robert C. (Canada Research Chair in Queer, Community and Diversity Education and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, Canada Research Chair in Queer, Community and Diversity Education and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba, The University of Auckland) Allen, Louisa (Professor in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, Professor in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, Australia) Cover, Rob (Professor of Digital Communication, Professor of Digital Communication, RMIT University, Nelson M Rodriguez, Robert C Mizzi
Tonette S. Rocco, Timothy Gary Hatcher, Miami) Rocco, Tonette S. (Florida International University, Raleigh) Hatcher, Timothy Gary (North Carolina State University, Tonette S Rocco