Suchergebnisse

The myth versus the reality of race and racism. Rebirth of the indigenous spirit: turning the world right side up / Rose Borunda -- Reading, writing, and racism: developing racial literacy in the adult education English classroom / Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz -- Experiencing the race, gender, and socioeconomic divide in academia: a Chicana perspective / Raquel A. Gonzáles and Maria Mejorado -- Transforming learning and teaching: teaching race / Nichole M. Ray -- "Who is this cowboy?" Challenging the cultural gatekeepers / Lesley Ngatai -- Healing: a journey through conversations on race and gender -- Problematizing "whiteness," supremacy, and privilege: their impact on race -- White whispers: talking about race in adult education / Lisa M. Baumgartner -- Transforming white consciousness / Doug Paxton -- Adult education and the problem of the color (power) line: views from the whiter side / Elaine Manglitz and Ronald M. Cervero -- Developing capacity to communicate about race with critical humility / European-American Collaborative Challenging Whiteness --

Introduction: Welfare reform is a current societal issue of tremendous significance in the United States. The popular discourses surrounding welfare reform are extremely complex and lead to frequently volatile discussions, for welfare reform itself is not a single issue, but relates to multiple underlying issues concerning the origins and solutions of poverty and unemployment, the subordination of women and women=s roles in society, competing discourses of work and family, the intersections of racism and poverty, and the role of adult education in social change. Welfare reform as a societal issue affects us all as citizens and participants in the U.S. economic and political system. But more specifically, as adult educators, we have a potentially vital role to play as these issues are debated and translated into policy and practice. New policies are having a tremendous impact on the nature of adult education programs for the economically disenfranchised. Further, welfare reform has stimulated nonformal learning and popular education in connection with the work of social action groups, such as the Welfare Warriors, organizing in reaction to reform initiatives. Perhaps most importantly, welfare reform puts forward in a compelling manner the question of adult educators= responsibility to take a proactive role in social change efforts (Cunningham, 1989).