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Brookfield, Stephen – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2014
Adult education scholarship has been racialized through the lens of Eurocentric theory and research. Theoretical paradigms such as Africentrism struggle to gain academic legitimacy as discourses of transformative learning, critical thinking and self-direction--all grounded in the European Enlightenment tradition of the individual pursuit of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Racial Bias, Social Attitudes, Minority Groups