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The road less walked: a retrospective of race and ethnicity in adult education
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A 20-year retrospective on race and ethnicity in adult education is presented in this article, where a brief historical synopsis of how Adult Education has examined race and race ethnicity foregrounds a contemporary segment that reviews the existing situations of people of colour in Adult Education.Abstract:
This article is a 20-year retrospective on race and ethnicity in Adult Education. A brief historical synopsis of how Adult Education has examined race and ethnicity foregrounds a contemporary segment that reviews the existing situations of people of colour in Adult Education. It is imperative to first discuss Adult Education's past as regards race and ethnicity in order to properly situate the contemporary discussion. This status report focuses primarily on Blacks since other groups, such as Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans, have been essentially absent from the literature. Research during the formative years of Adult Education in the 1930s and 1940s generally consisted of a neutral surface examination, while the current research of the 1980s and 1990s has a distinct social justice component sustained by a critical lens. The literature is virtually quiet on issues relating to race and ethnicity between the years of 1950 and 1980. Seven data sources were used in this appraisal. The following journal...read more
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Critical Race Theory and Adult Education.
TL;DR: Critical race theory (CRT) as mentioned in this paper was developed to examine the persistence of racism in higher education, and it has been applied in related fields such as higher education and possible reasons for its limited application in adult education theorizing about race and racism.
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Racism and white privilege in adult education graduate programs: Admissions, retention, and curricula
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how white privilege and racism function in adult education graduate programs regarding admissions, retention, and curricula, and explore the role of racism and white privilege.
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Diversity in Human Resource Development and Continuing Professional Education: What Does It Mean for the Workforce, Clients, and Professionals?:
Jovita M. Ross-Gordon,Ann Brooks +1 more
TL;DR: Despite the magnitude of the ethical, legal, economic, social, social and political dimensions that define diversity initiatives in the workplace, the fields of human resource and human resource management are still relatively unexplored as discussed by the authors.
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(Re)Defining the Narrative: High-Achieving Nontraditional Black Male Undergraduates at a Historically Black College and University.
TL;DR: This article investigated the academic and social experiences of four nontraditional, high-achieving, Black male undergraduates attending one historically Black university and found that participants were intrinsically motivated to succeed in college to make a better future for themselves and their families.
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African Americans in Adult Education: The Harlem Renaissance Revisited
TL;DR: The authors examined a 25-year period of African Americans in adult education by accessing the archival holdings of three major data centers: the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Moorland-Spingarn Archives, and the Hollis Burke Frissell Library.
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Education for critical consciousness
TL;DR: The Pedagogy of the Oppressed as mentioned in this paper is the main statement of Freire's revolutionary method of education, which takes the life situation of the learner as its starting point and the raising of consciousness and the overcoming of obstacles as its goals.
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Adults as Learners: Increasing Participation and Facilitating Learning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize the research and theory concerning adult learners and analyzes their potential impact on educational institutions, and present a new preface that includes a new review.
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Black Americans' Views of Racial Inequality: The Dream Deferred
Lee Sigelman,Susan Welch +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the sources of black Americans' perceptions of racial inequality and their views of remedies for racial inequality, focusing on the following: 1. Socioeconomic status and differentiation among black Americans 2.
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Needed: A Multicultural Perspective for Adult Education Research:
TL;DR: In this article, a review of adult education research literature over the last five years suggests the adult education community has not shown a similar interest in understanding the needs of racial and ethnic minority youth in the schools.