Guest Scholars:
Dr. Stephen D. Brookfield (Antioch University).
Dr. Robin S. Grenier (University of Connecticut).
Dr. Aliki Nicolaides (University of Georgia).
Topics Include:
What is meant by the term Adult Education?
What is the connection between Adult Education and the concepts of work and the workplace?
What is the relationship between Adult Education and HRD?
To what extent do HRD professionals consider themselves to be adult educators?
What is the role of reflection in adult learning, adult education, and HRD?
How does our understanding of adult learning influence HRD practice?
Bios:
Dr. Stephen D. Brookfield is Antioch University Distinguished Scholar, Adjunct Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University (New York) and Emeritus Professor at the University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis-St. Paul). Since beginning his educational career in 1970, Stephen has worked in England, Canada, and the United States, teaching and consulting in a variety of adult, community, organizational and higher education settings. His overall project is to help people learn to think critically about the dominant ideologies they have internalized and how these can be challenged. He is particularly interested in methodologies of critical thinking, discussion and dialog, critical reflection, leadership, and the exploration of power dynamics, particularly around racial identity and white supremacy. To that end he has written, co-written or edited twenty books on adult learning, teaching, critical thinking, discussion methods, critical theory, leadership and teaching race, six of which have won the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education (in 1986, 1989, 1996, 2005, 2011 and 2012). His academic appointments have included positions at the University of British Columbia, Teachers College Columbia University (New York), Harvard University and the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis-St. Paul. He has consulted with numerous organizations and institutions across the world and delivered multiple workshops and conference keynotes.
Dr. Robin S. Grenier is Professor of Adult Learning in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Grenier received her Ph.D. in Adult Education and Certificate in Qualitative Inquiry from the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on informal and experiential learning, expertise redevelopment, and learning in cultural institutions. Dr. Grenier is also a qualitative methodologist, and co-edited the 2nd edition of Qualitative Research in Practice: Examples for Discussion and Analysis. She was a 2-term Board Member for the Academy of Human Resource Development and in 2014 was awarded a Fulbright to teach and conduct research at the University of Iceland.
Dr. Aliki Nicolaides is Associate Professor of Adult Learning, Leadership and Adult Development at the University of Georgia in the program of Learning, Leadership and Organization Development. Dr. Nicolaides seeks to optimize vital developmental conditions for adults, groups and systems to learn and grow. Through the past decade of research and teaching, she has developed a philosophy of adult learning, Generative Knowing. This philosophy highlights and explores how adults might learn their way through the complexity and ambiguity that is so prevalent in this period of ‘liquid’ modernity. Specifically, her work suggests that under certain conditions and with intentional scaffolding, encounters with ambiguity and complexity can evoke deep learning and reveal hidden potential that generates response-ability, - timely and mutual action. In addition to her academic scholarship and facilitation, Dr. Nicolaides is a founding steward and current Director of the International Transformative Learning Association. The purpose of the association is to promote global critical scholarship, research, teaching, application, and praxis of the social, scientific, artistic, and humanistic principles of transformative learning theories and praxis.
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This episode is sponsored by the HRD Program at the University of Minnesota - visit them at https://www.cehd.umn.edu/olpd, and by the Academy of Human Resource Development Board, which invites you to submit manuscripts to its 30th International Research Conference in the Americas – the submission deadline is September 7th, 2022 – for full details visit https://www.ahrd.org/.
