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Clemans, Shantih E. – Adult Literacy Education, 2019
In this response to Stephen Brookfield's "Why White Instructors Should Explore Their White Racial Identity" (EJ1246146), Shantih Clemans agrees with Brookfield's strong assertion that white teachers need to carefully explore what it means to be white. However, she takes two primary points of departure: (1) she feels Brookfield falls…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Teachers, Whites, Racial Identification
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Brookfield, Stephen D. – Adult Literacy Education, 2019
The questions that begin Stephen Brookfield's discussion of why he thinks white instructors in multiracial Adult Basic Education (ABE) classes need to explore their own whiteness include the following: (1) If racial identity is largely a cultural, not biological, construct, then why focus on "any" form of racial markers?; and (2) Doesn't…
Descriptors: Whites, Racial Identification, Racial Attitudes, Racial Differences
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Gnanadass, Edith – Adult Literacy Education, 2019
In this response to Stephen Brookfield's "Why White Instructors Should Explore Their White Racial Identity" (EJ1246146), Edith Gnanadass writes her response from the point of view of an adult educator with a multiplicity of identities in her critique of Brookfield's concept by going beyond his call for reflection of one's own whiteness.…
Descriptors: Whites, Teachers, Adult Basic Education, Racial Attitudes