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Overview

Stephen Brookfield is affiliated with the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, United States. Their research mainly spans the social sciences, with a focus on education, sociology, political science, and related subfields. The body of work touches on critical areas such as education and critical thinking development, global educational policies and reforms, and educator training and historical pedagogy.

Brookfield's recent papers include the following:

  • Teaching for Critical Thinking (2020), published in the International Journal of Adult Education and Technology
  • Powerful teaching, the paradox of empowerment and the powers of Foucault. An interview with Professor Stephen Brookfield (2022), published in the Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching
  • Using a Pedagogy of Narrative Disclosure to Uncover White Supremacy (2020), published in New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education
  • Anti-racist Adult Education (2022), published in the Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education

Stephen Brookfield collaborates with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Jürgen Rudolph
  • Shannon Tan
  • John D. Holst
  • Robin Neustaeter
  • Adam Perry

Their research is also distributed across multiple publication venues, showing a diverse engagement with the field. Frequent venues include:

  • International Journal of Adult Education and Technology
  • Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching
  • New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education
  • Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education

Within their main and subfields of study, Brookfield focuses on:

  • Education
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Social Psychology
  • Gender Studies

Key topics of their work are:

  • Education and Critical Thinking Development
  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Online and Blended Learning
  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Higher Education and Employability

Best Publications

  • Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

    Stephen Brookfield

  • Understanding and facilitating adult learning

    Stephen D. Brookfield

  • Developing critical thinkers: Challenging adults to explore alternative ways of thinking and acting.

    Stephen D. Brookfield

  • Developing Critical Thinkers

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  • The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom

    Stephen D. Brookfield

  • Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms

    Stephen D. Brookfield;Stephen Preskill

  • The Power of Critical Theory: Liberating Adult Learning and Teaching

    Stephen D. Brookfield

  • Understanding and Facilitating Adult Learning: A Comprehensive Analysis of Principles and Effective Practices

    Stephen D. Brookfield

  • Teaching for Critical Thinking: Tools and Techniques to Help Students Question Their Assumptions

    Stephen D. Brookfield

  • Critically Reflective Practice.

    Stephen Brookfield

  • The concept of critical reflection: promises and contradictions

    Stephen Brookfield

  • Radicalizing Learning: Adult Education for a Just World

    Stephen D. Brookfield;John D. Holst

  • Tales from the dark side: a phenomenography of adult critical reflection

    Stephen Brookfield

  • Self-Directed Adult Learning: A Critical Paradigm.

    Stephen Brookfield

  • Self-Directed Learning, Political Clarity, and the Critical Practice of Adult Education:

    Stephen Brookfield

  • Discussion as a way of teaching

    Stephen Brookfield

  • Self-directed learning : from theory to practice

    Stephen D. Brookfield

  • Repositioning Ideology Critique in a Critical Theory of Adult Learning

    Stephen Brookfield

  • Discussion as a Way of Teaching. Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms. The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series.

    Stephen D. Brookfield;Stephen Preskill

  • Engaging Imagination: Helping Students Become Creative and Reflective Thinkers

    Alison James;Stephen Brookfield

  • Adult Learning: An Overview

    Stephen Brookfield

  • Adult learners, adult education, and the community

    Stephen Brookfield

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Kalliath
Thomas Kalliath Australian National University

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