Full Description
Contested Spaces of Teaching and Learning examines the educational experiences of adults as cultural practice. These practices take place in diverse settings from formal educational contexts to institutionally interstitial realms to fluid and explicitly contested everyday spaces. This edited collection includes twelve richly rendered ethnographic case studies written from the perspective of practitioner-ethnographers who straddle the roles of educator and ethnographic researcher. Drawing on distinct theoretical framings, these contributors illuminate the ways in which adults engaged in teaching and learning participate in cultural practices that 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, this collection provides new understandings and critical insights into the complexities of adults' educational experiences.
Contents
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
