Stephen Brookfield

Stephen Brookfield, born in Liverpool, England in 1949, is a British scholar of adult education who has held faculty positions at the University of British Columbia, Columbia University, Harvard University, the University of St. Thomas and Antioch University. He is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University and an emeritus professor at the University of St. Thomas. His scholarship focuses on adult learning, critical thinking and discussion based teaching methods, and in later work he has addressed systemic racism and white supremacy in educational contexts. Brookfield has authored nineteen books and received the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education six times.