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Stephen Brookfield
Since beginning his teaching career in 1970, Stephen
Brookfield has worked in England, Canada, Australia, and
the US, teaching in a variety of college settings. He has
written or edited 17 books on adult learning, teaching,
critical thinking, discussion methods and critical theory, 6
of which have won the Cyril O. Houle World Award for
Literature in Adult Education. He won the 1986 Imogene
Okes Award for Outstanding Research in Adult Education
and the Philip E. Frandson Award for Literature in
Continuing Higher Education, (2013). He currently serves
on the editorial boards of educational journals in Britain,
Canada, Australia, and the US. In 2001, he received the
Leadership Award from the Association for Continuing
Higher Education for "extraordinary contributions to the
general field of continuing education on a national and
international level." During 2002, he was a Visiting
Professor at Harvard University. After 10 years as a
a Professor of Higher and Adult Education at Columbia University in New York, he now holds the
John Ireland Endowed Chair at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis-St. Paul, where he
recently won the Diversity Leadership Teaching & Research Award and the Presidential Award for
Outstanding Achievement as a Teacher/Scholar. In 2008 he received the Council for Adult &
Experiential Learning’s Morris T. Keeton Award for his contributions to adult and experiential
learning. In 2009 he was inducted into the international Adult Education Hall of Fame.
Tuesday, September 30 at Graceland University
Shaw Auditorium
September 30
Convocation Schedule
Read about Dr. Brookfield and access articles – and more
- at http://stephenbrookfield.com:
10:45 - 11:35
✦Chapter 3, Powerful Techniques for Teaching Adults
All (faculty, staff, students, campus
(Jossey-Bass, 2013)
wildlife) are invited to Brookfield’s ✦Chapter 1, Teaching for Critical Thinking
(Jossey-Bass, 2012)
presentation on how critical
thinking can be used in Graceland ✦Chapter 1, Radicalizing Learning
(with John Holst, Jossey-Bass, 2011)
classrooms and meeting rooms.
✦Chapter 1, Learning as a Way of Leading
1:05 - 2:15 (12:30 classes)
First workshop focused on critical
thinking in the classroom - all who
work with students are welcome.
2:30 – 3:40 (2:00 classes) Repeat
Second workshop focused on
critical thinking in the classroom all who work with students are
welcome.
(with Stephen Preskill, Jossey-Bass, 2008)
✦Chapters 4 & 5, The Skillful Teacher
2nd edition (2006)
✦Chapter 13, Discussion as a Way of Teaching
(with Stephen Preskill) (Jossey-Bass, 2005)
✦Chapter 1, The Power of Critical Thinking
(Jossey-Bass, 2004)
✦ And –Listen to Stephen’s band, The 99ers, at
the99ersband.com!