STEPHEN BROOKFIELD BIO

Home Page: http://stephenbrookfield.com
Email: sdbrookfield@stthomas.edu

Title: Distinguished University Professor, University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis-St. Paul)

Since beginning his teaching career in 1970 Stephen has worked in England, Canada, Australia and the United States, teaching in a variety of college settings.  He has written and edited nine books on adult learning, teaching and critical thinking, four of which have won the World Award for Literature in Adult Education  (in 1986, 1989, 1996 and 2005).  He also won the 1986 Imogene Okes Award for Outstanding Research in Adult Education.  His 1999 book on Discussion as a Way of Teaching was a 1999 Educational Studies Association Critics Choice.  His work has been translated into German, Finnish and Chinese.  In 1991 he was awarded an honorary doctor of letters degree from the University System of New Hampshire for his contributions to understanding adult learning. In 2001 he received the Leadership Award from the Association for Continuing Higher Education (ACHE) for “extraordinary contributions to the general field of continuing education on a national and international level”.  He currently serves on the editorial boards of educational journals in Britain, Canada and Australia, as well as in the United States. During 2002 he was Visiting Professor at Harvard University.  After 10 years as a Professor of Higher and Adult Education at Columbia University in New York, he now holds the title of Distinguished University Professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Adult Learners, Adult Education and the Community (1984)

Self-Directed Learning: from Theory to Practice (1985)

Understanding and Facilitating Adult Learning (1986)  *  “

Developing Critical Thinkers (1987)  *

Training Educators of Adults (1988)

Learning Democracy (1988)

The Skillful Teacher (1990; 2006)

Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher (1995)  *

Discussion as a Way of Teaching (co-authored with Stephen Preskill) (1999; 2005) ^

The Power of Critical Theory (2005)*

*    Winner of the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education
^    Critics Choice Selection of the American Educational Studies Association
“    Winner of the Imogene Okes Award for Outstanding Research in Adult Education