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- Title: Community Education and Critical Race Praxis: The Power of Voice (Report)
- Author : Educational Foundations
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 204 KB
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In a society, which ostensibly promotes homogeneity, it is easy to consider adult education simply in terms of skills and activities (Ferdman, 1990). Yet adult education around the world (e.g., Brazil, Cuba, Nigeria, Ghana, and Guinea- Bissau) has been venues for consciousness raising aimed at human liberation (Ladson-Billings, 1994). Moreover, beyond the formal classroom and closer to home, African American community education may provide adults a space to counter the master narrative, recover silenced consciousness and "facilitate their ability to articulate what they do and think about in order to provide a foundation for autonomous action" (Fasheh, 1990 p. 26). Within the field of education, the master narrative is affiliated with the process of assimilation which is imposed upon learners of color, requiring conformity to the status quo and silencing a diversity of knowledge and opinion. The master narrative is conveyed via stereotypes, communique, and ideology which objectify persons of color as inherently weak, devoid of power and voice, and incapable of positively contributing to the larger society (Aguirre, 2005). African American community education can act as a vehicle by which to interrogate these master narratives. Further, this type of adult education empowers learners to gain skills to assess the social and political contradictions and injustices of society, and assert action in addressing those contradictions and injustices. Education ceases to be solely for individual advancement, but "it becomes an interactive process that is constantly redefined and renegotiated, as the individual transacts with the socioculturally fluid surroundings" (Ferdman, 1990 p.187). Once new ways of seeing the world are learned and acted upon, it is from this adult population that emerge resistance to and transformation of societal structures (Welton, 1987 as cited in Mayo, 1999).
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