Prepublication Announcement
Adult and Higher Education in Queer Contexts: Power, Politics, and Pedagogy
Robert J. Hill & André P. Grace (Editors)   

From the “Forward”
By Stephen D. Brookfield, Distinguished University Professor, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota

“These days it is fashionable to lament the passing of adult education’s transgressive spirit.The historical myth that exercises considerable influence on the field is that adult education used to be a radical expression of the democratic spirit, but it has been tamed, moved to the dark side, become the lapdog of workplace learning, sold its soul to the devil of professionalism in a misguided attempt to be taken seriously by more powerful branches of education.This myth is just that – a myth. I have never believed it. The radical, transgressive spirit of adult education has endured and constantly reconfigured itself, doing its best to escape and outwit those who would contain and neutralize its energy and surfacing in ways that constantly take adult educators by surprise. The colleagues I work with in adult and higher education and the learners I serve and study with are neither tamed nor ideologically hoodwinked. This volume of spirited commitment—defiantly hopeful, seriously playful, and placing matters of desire and resistance at its center—is an apt representation of the enduring radical spirit of the best of adult education.”

Overview
Adult Education in Queer Contexts: Power, Politics, and Pedagogy is divided into 16 chapters beginning with a review of themes, concepts, and ideas pervasive at the Adult Education Research Conference (AERC) and AERC LGBTQ&Allies PreConferences for more than half a decade.

The chapters in this edited text 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 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, bisexual, intersexual, transsexual, transgender, and Queer persons—and their issues into the present moment.


Table of Contents:

• Queer Silence No More—Let’s Make Some Noise by Robert J. Hill and André P. Grace
• Positioning Queer in Adult Education: Intervening in Politics and Praxis in North America by
• André P. Grace & Robert J. Hill
• Que(e)rying Intimacy: Challenges to Lifelong Learning by Robert J. Hill
• Art as Anti-Oppression Adult Education: Creating a Pedagogy of Presence and Place by André P. Grace, Robert J. Hill, & Kristopher Wells
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Campus Climate Assessments: Current Trends and Future Considerations by Needham Yancey Gulley
• LGBTQ Allies on Campus: Do They Have a Role? by Ann Brooks, Dawn Robarts, & Ronnie Lozano
• Where is Our Citizenship in Academia? Experiences of Gay Men of Color in Higher Education by
• Mitsunori Misawa
• Successfully Queering the Business Curriculum: A Proposed Agenda for Process as well as Content
• by Julie Gedro
• Crossroads for Creating My Space in the Workforce: Transformative Learning Helps Understand LGBTQ Sexual Identity Development among Adults by Kathleen P. King
• LGBTQ Lessons from Midlife: An Unpicked Harvest by Thomas V. Bettinger
• Sobears: Gay Bears, Sobriety, and Community by John P. Egan
• Transsexuality: Challenging the Institutionalized Sex/Gender Binary by Robert J. Hill & Debra Davis
• When the Down-Low Becomes the New High: Integrating Queer Politics and Pedagogies through Critical Community Education in Kosovo by Robert Mizzi
• Posi+ive Prevention for Gay Men: Dismounting Missionary Positions by Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco & Peter Hall
• Just City Life: Creating a Safe Space for the GLBTQ Community in Urban Adult Education by
• Tonette S. Rocco, Hilary Landorf, & Suzanne J. Gallagher
• No End to History: Demanding Civil Quarter for Sexual Minorities in Heteronormative Space by
• André P. Grace & Robert J. Hill

SUBSTANTIAL PRE-PUBLICATION DISCOUNT- UNTIL 7/1/09
Advanced copies, paid by check, will be available for $29.95 (+ $5 shipping) (Amazon will offer the book at $45.95)

To order your discount priced  pre-publication copy write:
Attn: K. Armstrong, Editor
Discovery Association Publishing House Shipping
1430 East Saddlebrook
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Publication is anticipated as early as late Summer 2009. Published by Discovery Association Publishing House, P.O. Box 87662, Chicago, Illinois 60680-0662 USA.

For further information contact rhill@discoveryap.com


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