- Stephen Brookfield
Stephen Brookfield (born
1949 inLiverpool ,England ) is an internationally acclaimed scholar inadult education who holds the title of Distinguished University Professor at theUniversity of St. Thomas inMinneapolis -St. Paul, Minnesota . Before that he was a Professor of Higher and Adult Education atColumbia University inNew York for ten years. During 2002 he was a Visiting Professor atHarvard University .In his teaching career Stephen Brookfield has worked in
England ,Canada ,Australia , and theU.S. , teaching in a variety of college settings. He has written ten books onadult learning ,adult teaching ,critical thinking , discussion methods andcritical theory as well ascritical pedagogy . He has won theCyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education four times (in1986 ,1989 ,1996 and2005 ). He also won the 1986 Imogene Okes Award for Outstanding Research in Adult Education. His work has been translated into several languages including German, Finnish and Chinese. In 2001 he received the Leadership Award from theAssociation for Continuing Higher Education (ACHE) for "extraordinary contributions to the general field of continuing education on a national and international level."He has an honorary doctor of letters from the
University System of New Hampshire in 1991 for his contributions to understanding adult learning, and in 2003 he was awarded an honorary doctor of letters degree fromConcordia University (St. Paul, Minnesota ). Currently he serves on various editorial boards of international educational journals.Books
*"Adult Learners, Adult Education and the Community", 1984.
*"Self-Directed Learning: from Theory to Practice", 1985.
*"Understanding and Facilitating Adult Learning", 1986.
*"Developing Critical Thinkers", 1987.
*"Training Educators of Adults", 1988.
*"Learning Democracy", 1988.
*"The Skillful Teacher", 1990.
*"Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher", 1995.
*"Discussion as a Way of Teaching" (with Stephen Preskill), 2. edition, 2005.
*"The Power of Critical Theory", 2005.Links
*http://stephenbrookfield.com/
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