This inspired text contains the autobiographies of fifty highly acclaimed adult educators largely from the U.S. and Canada, talking about the forces that brought them and held them in the area of Adult Education. (These quintessential writers were unanimously selected by leaders in adult education as they displayed tendencies to participate in extracurricular projects, without knowing the exact outcome, for the sake of education or expanding knowledge.) Collectively, these memoirs exemplify the potency of community activism and partnership. As life is at least a journey through lessons over time, contributors' entries in this book are also a historical record that reveals the connections of their socially conscious "talk" to their "walk" among the students, communities, and programs to which they have given so greatly. Tribute by Dr. Ronald M. Cervero and Dr. Sharan B. Merriam.

North American Adult Educators: Phyllis M. Cunningham Archive of Quintessential Autobiographies for the Twenty-First Century

Education & Teaching

Keith B. Armstrong

Lee W. Nabb

Anthony P. Czech

EDITORS

Schools & Teaching

Discovery Association Publishing House

Adult and Higher Education in Queer Contexts: Power, Politics, and Pedagogy is largely the product of several years of research and scholarship that...provide[s] a conspectus of significant adult education work at the intersection of sexual orientation and gender identity, variation, and expression. The chapters in this book are, like the concept Queer, eclectic, dynamic, flowing, turbulent, enraging, engaging, encompassing, unyielding, unapologetic, and still they provide just a limited purview of all that is Queer in adult and higher education, lifelong learning, culture, and society. Nevertheless, the sum of these chapters provides readers with an intricate and informative pathway to learn about Queer politics, culture, and sociality and to explore sexual minorities including lesbian, gay, Two-Spirit,1 bisexual, intersexual, transsexual, transgender, and Queer persons and their issues into the present moment. This collection explores identities, subjectivities, positionalities, and socialities that comprise the spectral and fluid nature of Queer. These aspects of Queer being, becoming, belonging, and acting in the world inform and energize a politics of hope and possibility that make Queer terrain a site of transgression and potential change in which social and cultural transformation are the primary composite goals. In our writing, we tend to capitalize Queer to respect the spectrum of sexual orientations and gender identities it is considered to include in the ebb and flow of sex, sexual, and gender differences. As you engage in what we hope will be a troubling trek through these chapters, we invite you to interrogate Queer oppression and disenfranchisement, as well as the exclusionary systems and traditions that sustain them. More importantly though, in the spirit of Paulo Freire s (2004) politics and pedagogy of indignation, we invite you to be open to being angry. We want you to use your anger, as Freire did, as a motivation for taking a stand and working for change. We want you to believe and insist that change is possible for Queers so we are respected, recognized, accepted, and accommodated (Grace & Wells, 2007). With delight, we introduce you to the chapters in this book as you begin your learning journey to enhance the motivation to know.

Adult and Higher Education in Queer Contexts: Power, Politics, and Pedagogy

Robert J. Hill

And Associates

PH.D.

Andre P. Grace

An interpretive study of two high school mathematics teachers negotiating the meaning of traditional and reform curricula in a milieu of high-stakes standardized assessments. This book examines how two teachers cope with reform, tradition, and standardized assessments.

Testing over Teaching: Mathematics Education in the 21st Century

Sean Nank

PHD.

Only one mathematics teacher and one science teacher can win this award each year from each state, Washington DC, Puerto Rico, United States territories, and the Department of Defense Education Activity. This prestigious award is the highest award in the U.S. that anyone can bestow on mathematics and science teachers. It is the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) and issued by the President of the United States for grades K-12. This book is a gift to the teaching profession, and to other groups concerned with teaching, from 50 experienced schoolteachers recipients between 1989 and 2009. This book is a collection of the teachers individual stories, written by them, about how they first went about becoming teachers, then outstanding teachers, and ultimately career-teachers. All their stories are about practice about taking action in the world, specifically in schools, in hopes of making them more humane places. As such, the collected stories speak unequivocally about the central place that practicing goodness occupies in teaching. 
 Goodness is an unusual emphasis in contemporary education discourse where scores on standardized achievement tests aligned with standardized curricula are trump. And, readers may notice, why stories about schoolteaching? Why not a formal genre associated with expert, generalizable knowledge, such as expository research articles or policy reports? And why stories about teaching written by teachers? The value of stories is that they are the most elemental and common form of human communication. We all know how to tell stories and how to hearken to them. We converse with each other in stories, using them to fashion ideas and information in accessible, compelling, and, therefore, exchangeable form. If teachers want other citizens to join them in thinking about schooling, stories are the medium. The value of stories about teaching written by schoolteachers is that they express teachers perspectives, and teachers work is at the very heart of schools and of any reform. Therefore, if one wants to know what teaching is (perhaps in order to propose feasible ideas about what it ought to be), one has to consider how teachers view their world. This is not mere courtesy. Like all humans, teachers act, based on what they deem is sensible in particular situations. When they resist a policy change, they are not being obstreperous or unwilling to learn new tricks. Rather, the new policy may not make sense in light of teachers knowledge about life in classrooms. Accordingly, teachers views of practice are crucial mediators of any policy. Their perspective, when written down and collected, constitutes a public record of teaching, one that can be consulted, contested, and continually revisited to see how teaching persists and varies with individual and societal change. Teachers views are especially vital now, when education is on the ropes, yet teachers professional authority and autonomy in regard to practice are increasingly restricted. 
 This book exemplifies the promise inherent in schoolteachers stories about their development as teachers. Wonderfully accessible and richly detailed, the collected stories succeed in taking readers into the teachers world so that, however vicariously, readers feel that they are there with the teachers, able to understand the teaching world as teachers do. The stories call to readers, compelling interest because, instead of the usual generic list of best practices or stereotypical platitudes about teaching s joys, they put readers in touch with the particulars of teaching. Visible is the multidimensional, strenuous, and always uncertain effort that is involved in determining how to act well with others...

The Making of a Presidential Mathematics & Science Educator An Autobiographical Archive of Presidential Awardees

Take a historical-fiction journey of personal enlightenment, spiritual awakening, and sacred Hawaiian beliefs. Through a mystically gifted young child, Alika, the reader watches him grow, develop unusual talents, start a retreat house for inmates and men returning from war. He fights demon spirits, fights powerful drug lords, fights the wilderness and wolves of Canada, and finds the woman of his destiny. In the end the book reveals the most important tenants to balance our mental, emotional, and spiritual challenges in life

Alika's Journey to the Sea: In the Spirit of Healing

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Dr. Keith B. Armstrong

Psychology & Counseling

Being a lesbian is no longer a handicap in corporate and organizational America. It can be an asset, and a source of strength.  Lipstick or Golf Clubs is the first book ever focused exclusively on lesbians and leadership. Julie Gedro is a former human resource management and development professional, and her experiences traversing organizational America as an out lesbian interweave with her research to explain successful lesbian leaders learn to succeed; how their lesbianism is an advantage; what their leadership styles are; and the advice they would give to young lesbians who have leadership aspirations.

LIPSTICK OR GOLF CLUBS: What Lesbian Leaders Understand About Success and What You Can Learn from Them

ED.D.

Julie Gedro

LGBTQIA+ Autobiographical Writing - Emancipating Untold Truths

M.A.

LICSW

Jesse Pikorz

Kim Stout

Jenny Bishman

The first edition of North American Adult Educators was an experiment in how autobiographies can survey and inform the field. The second edition continues and expands upon this experiment, as, like any other field or thing, Adult Education is in constant flux. Taken with the other bodies of work produced by the autobiographers in both editions, one can perhaps see, not only how the field has changed, but how experiences and the perceptions they produce may have affected that change.

North American Adult Educators: Phyllis M. Cunningham Archive of Quintessential Autobiographies for the Twenty-First Century, 2nd Edition

Nabb, Lee W.

Tan, Fujuan

Privott, Daryl R.

Higher & Continuing Education

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