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Stephen D. Brookfield

Stephen D. Brookfield . Stephen Brookfield: As We Know. Stephen Brookfield has written and edited 15 books on adult learning, teaching, and critical thinking. He has won three distingushed awards: 1. Imogene Oke Award for Outstanding Research in Adult Education

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Stephen D. Brookfield

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  1. Stephen D. Brookfield

  2. Stephen Brookfield: As We Know • Stephen Brookfield has written and edited 15 books on adult learning, teaching, and critical thinking. • He has won three distingushed awards: • 1. Imogene Oke Award for Outstanding Research in Adult Education • 2. Five Cyril O. Houle World Awards for Literature in Adult Education • 3. Leadership Award from the Association for Continuing Higher Education

  3. Stephen D. Brookfield “A sad old geezer trying pathetically to be hip by playing in a rock band, wearing big hoop earrings and multiple rings - all to disguise a lack of personality” -Stephen D. Brookfield

  4. Where in the World is Brookfield From?

  5. The Life of Stephen Brookfield: • Steven Brookfield was born in 1949 in the city of Bootle, but grew up in Liverpool, England. • In 1986, he married Kim. Together they had two children: Molly and Colin Brookfield.

  6. Race and Racism: • An Interview with Elizabeth Peterson disclosed two details of Brookfield’s adolescence. 1. He was beaten. 2. He was naive.

  7. Socio-Cultural Context For the past twenty-one years, Brookfield and his family have lived in the United States. Ten years were spent in New York (Harlem) and the other eleven years in Minneapolis.

  8. Brookfield’s key contributions: • Thinking skills are critical for a student to experience success. This is a learner need. • Instructors are Facilitators • Assumptions should be challenged.

  9. Stephen Brookfield was a highly influential figure coving topics such as: adult learning, community adult Education, critical reflection, critical theory, etc. • “Differences in class, culture, ethnicity, personality cognitive style, learning patterns, life experience and gender among adults are more significant than the fact that they are not children or adolescents” Conclusion

  10. Citations Gorton , A. (2011). Adult educators, adult education and progressive social movements. 42(29), Retrieved from http://www.variant.org.uk/29texts/edu29.html Ferrito, S. (2002, November 26). Stephen brookfield personal vita. Retrieved from http://www-distance.syr.edu/pvitasb.html Peterson, E. (2007). Race and racism: A critical dialogue. Retrieved from http://stephenbrookfield.com/Dr._Stephen_D._Brookfield Brookfield, S. D. (2011, October 28). Dr. stephen d. brookfield. Retrieved from http://www.stephenbrookfield.com/Dr._Stephen_D._Brookfield/Home.html

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