Stephen Brookfield

Stephen Brookfield (born 1949 in Liverpool, England) is a scholar in adult education who has held positions at the University of British Columbia, Teachers College Columbia University (New York), Harvard University and the University of St. Thomas.

Stephen Brookfield
Born1949
Liverpool, England
AwardsCyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education (six times)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Leicester, UK
ThesisIndependent Adult Learning (1980)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of St. Thomas, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
Main interestsAdult education
WebsiteOfficial

Education

Brookfield earned his Ph.D from the University of Leicester in 1980 and wrote a thesis on independent adult learning.[1][2]

Career

In his teaching career, Brookfield has worked in England, Canada, Australia, and the United States, teaching in a variety of college settings. He has written nineteen books on adult learning, adult teaching, critical thinking, discussion methods, critical theory as well as critical pedagogy and teaching race. His overall project is to help adults learn to think critically about the dominant ideologies they have internalized and how these can be challenged. Influenced by the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory and American Pragmatism he has written extensively on how to use methods of critical reflection and discussion based teaching to uncover ideologies such as white supremacy and patriarchy. His twentieth book titled Creating an Anti-Racist White Identity (co-authored with Mary Hess) will be published by Stylus Publishers in 2021.

Awards

Brookfield has three honorary doctor of letters degrees; from the University System of New Hampshire in 1991, from Concordia University, St. Paul (St. Paul, Minnesota) in 2003, and from Muhlenberg College in 2010. He won the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education six times (in 1986, 1989, 1996, 2005, 2011 and 2012),[3] as well as the 1986 Imogene Okes Award for Outstanding Research in Adult Education, all awarded by the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education. At the University of St. Thomas he has won the John Ireland Presidential Award for Outstanding Achievement as a Teacher/Scholar award for as an exemplary scholar-teacher and the university's Diversity Leadership Teaching and Research Award. His work has been translated into several languages including Korean, German, Finnish, Japanese, Danish, Polish, Farsi and Chinese. In 2001 he received the Leadership Award from the Association for Continuing Higher Education (ACHE) for "extraordinary contributions to the general field of continuing education on a national and international level", and in 2008 he was awarded the Morris T. Keeton Award for Contributions to Adult and Experiential learning, awarded by the Council for Academic and Experiential Learning. In 2009 he was inducted into the International Adult Education Hall of Fame. He won the 2014 Philip E. Frandson Award for Literature awarded by the University Professional and Continuing Education Association for his book Powerful Techniques for Teaching Adults.

Selected bibliography

Books
  • Brookfield, Stephen (1980). Independent adult learning (Ph.D. thesis). University of Leicester, UK. OCLC 57138050. Pdf.
  • Brookfield, Stephen (1984). Adult learners, adult education and the community. ISBN 978-0-335-10409-3.
  • Brookfield, Stephen (1985). Self-directed learning: from theory to practice. ISBN 978-0-87589-743-1.
  • Brookfield, Stephen (1986). Understanding and facilitating adult learning: a comprehensive analysis of principles and effective practices. ISBN 9781555423551.
  • Brookfield, Stephen (1987). Developing critical thinkers: challenging adults to explore alternative ways of thinking and acting]. ISBN 9781555420550.
  • Brookfield, Stephen (1988). Training educators of adults: the theory and practice of graduate adult education. ISBN 978-0-415-00564-7.
  • Brookfield, Stephen (1988). Learning democracy: Eduard Lindeman on adult education and social change. ISBN 978-0-7099-5017-2.
  • Brookfield, Stephen (2015). The Skillful teacher: on trust, technique and responsiveness in the classroom (3rd ed.). ISBN 9780787980665.
  • Brookfield, Stephen (2017). Becoming a critically reflective teacher. ISBN 9780787901318.
  • Brookfield, Stephen; Preskill, Stephen (2005). Discussion as a way of teaching: tools and techniques for democratic classrooms. ISBN 9780787944582.
  • Brookfield, Stephen (2005). The Power of Critical Theory: Liberating Adult Learning and Teaching. ISBN 9780787956011.
  • Brookfield, Stephen; Hess, Mary (2008). Teaching reflectively in theological contexts: promises and contradictions. ISBN 978-1-57524-284-2.
  • Brookfield, Stephen; Preskill, Stephen (2009). Learning as a way of leading: lessons from the struggle for social justice. ISBN 9780787978075.
  • Brookfield, Stephen; Sheared, Vanessa; Scipio III, Colin; Peterson, Elizabeth; Bailey, Juanita Johnson (2010). Handbook of race and adult education. ISBN 9780470381762.
  • Brookfield, Stephen; Holst, John (2010). Radicalizing learning: adult education for a just world. ISBN 9780787998257.
  • Brookfield, Stephen (2011). Teaching for critical thinking: helping students question their assumptions. ISBN 9780470889343.
  • Brookfield, Stephen (2013). Powerful techniques for teaching adults. ISBN 9781118017005.
  • Brookfield, Stephen; James, Alison (2014). Engaging imagination: helping students become creative and reflective thinkers. ISBN 978-1-118-40947-3.
  • Brookfield, Stephen; Preskill, Stephen (2016). 50 great ways to get people talking. ISBN 978-1-100-49715-0.
  • Teaching Race: Helping Students Unmask and Challenge Racism. 2018. ISBN 978-1-119-37442-8

Chapters in books

Journal articles

See also

References
  1. Brookfield, Stephen (1980). Independent adult learning (Ph.D. thesis). University of Leicester, UK. OCLC 57138050. Pdf.
  2. "CV". Stephen D. Brookfield. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  3. Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education, John Wiley & Sons
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