Contested Spaces of Teaching and Learning

Practitioner Ethnographies of Adult Education in the United States

Janise Hurtig, Carolyn Chernoff (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8132-5 (ISBN)

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This edited collection of critical practitioner-based ethnographies explores how adults teach and learn across diverse formal and informal educational spaces. Contested Spaces of Teaching and Learning illustrates the myriad ways in which the process of adults teaching and learning is profoundly social, transformational, and linked to social change.

Contested Spaces is an edited collection of critical ethnographies that examine the educational experiences of adults as cultural practice. These practices take place in diverse settings -- from the formal and subtly negotiated educational contexts of school classrooms, parent or adult education programs; to the institutionally interstitial realms of a worker training program, Bible study class, prison yoga class, or refugee resettlement program; to fluid and explicitly contested everyday spaces: an LGBTQ choir, a public parade, or Latinx cultural programming.The compilation includes twelve richly rendered case studies written from the perspective of “practitioner-ethnographers” -- individuals who straddle the roles of educator and ethnographic researcher.
A central premise of the book is that, even as the terrain of adult education is increasingly infused with the aims and ideologies of neoliberal capital, participants in specific educational programs and activities are continuously forging educational alternatives to neoliberal education. Each chapter examines educative practices that either directly contest conventions of adult teaching and learning, and/or subtly challenge conventional ways of understanding the practices of adult teaching and learning. Drawing on distinct theoretical framings, each author illuminates the ways in which adults engaged in teaching and learning participate in cultural practices that necessarily intersect with other dimensions of social life, such as work, recreation, community engagement, personal development, or political action. By juxtaposing ethnographic inquiries of formal and informal learning spaces, as well as intentional and unintended challenges to mainstream adult teaching and learning, Contested Spaces provides new understandings and critical insights into the complexities of adults’ educative experiences.

Carolyn Chernoff is faculty member at Moore College of Art & Design. Janise Hurtig is faculty member at DePaul University.

Introduction: Contesting Adult Education
Carolyn Chernoff and Janise Hurtig

Section 1—Contesting Curriculum: Teaching and Learning in Community Education Spaces
Chapter 1: Maps, Flyers, and Notebooks: The Materiality of Experts and Novices in Refugee Education
Jill Koyama
Chapter 2: Rethinking Digital Resources in Adult and Family Literacy: Immigrant Parents’ Perspectives in Digital Literacy Program
Silvia Noguerón-Liu
Chapter 3: A Space Within a Space
Janise Hurtig

Section 2—Contesting Contexts: Teaching and Learning in Institutional Spaces
Chapter 4: Insider Yoga: Bodily Cultivation in Yoga at the River, a Hermetic Male Prison Yoga Community
Sara K. Schneider
Chapter 5: The Call to Wisdom: Warm Demander Pedagogy and the Black Church Sunday School Teacher as Learner
Tryphenia B. Peele-Eady
Chapter 6: Every Voice Matters: Taking Action for Equity
Gretchen Wilbur
Chapter 7: Organizers Leading Learning: Transforming Training at the Latino Union Workers Center
Joseph Zanoni

Section 3— Contesting Community: Teaching and Learning in and across Public Spaces
Chapter 8: “All I Want Is to Breathe. . . . Won’t You Breathe with Me?” The Individual and the Collective in an LGBTQ and Allies Community of Practice
Char Ullman
Chapter 9: Latinx Cultural Programming as Public Pedagogy: Mobilizing Cultura (Culture) in a Small Town Community in Upstate New York
Sofia A. Villenas and Carolina Osorio Gil
Chapter 10: Transnational Lives and Lifelong Learning in Mutual Assistance
Katherine Silvester
Chapter 11: Identity On Parade: Teaching and Learning Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Public
Carolyn Chernoff

Index
About the Editors and Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Co-Autor	Carolyn Chernoff, Janise Hurtig, Jill Koyama
Zusatzinfo	2 BW Illustrations
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 232 mm
Gewicht	549 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4985-8132-3 / 1498581323
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-8132-5 / 9781498581325
Zustand	Neuware