Name Stephen Brookfield | Main interests Adult education | |
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Thesis Independent Adult Learning (1980) Notable awards Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education (six times) Books Becoming a critically reflective, Developing Critical Thinkers, Radicalizing Learning: Adult Edu, Adult learners - adult edu, Engaging Imagination: Helping S | ||
Stephen brookfield on creative critical thinking
Stephen Brookfield (born 1949 in Liverpool, England) is a scholar in adult education who holds the John Ireland Endowed Chair at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. Before that he was a Professor of Higher and Adult Education at Columbia University in New York for ten years. During 2002 he was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University.
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- Stephen brookfield on creative critical thinking
- Stephen Brookfield Becoming a Skillful Teacher Fall Perspectives 2014 Keynote
- Education
- Career
- Awards
- References
Stephen Brookfield Becoming a Skillful Teacher- Fall Perspectives 2014 - Keynote
Education
Brookfield earned his Ph.D from the University of Leicester in 1980.
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 seventeen books on adult learning, adult teaching, critical thinking, discussion methods and critical theory as well as critical pedagogy.
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), 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. His work has been translated into several languages including Korean, German, Finnish, Japanese 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.
