Brookfield is a common place name in English-speaking countries. It is formed from the conjoining of the common words brook and field.

Australia[link]

• Brookfield, Queensland
• Brookfield, Victoria

New Zealand[link]

• Brookfield, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty

Canada[link]

• Brookfield, Nova Scotia
• Brookfield, Newfoundland and Labrador

United Kingdom[link]

• Brookfield, Derbyshire, in Derbyshire, England
• Brookfield, Lancashire, England
• Brookfield, Middlesbrough, in Middlesbrough, England
• Brookfield, Renfrewshire, Scotland
• Brookfield, County Fermanagh, a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
• Brookfield School, Swindon, Wiltshire

United States of America[link]

• Brookfield, Connecticut
• Brookfield, Illinois
  • Brookfield Zoo, located in Brookfield, Illinois
• Brookfield, Massachusetts
• Brookfield, Missouri
• Brookfield, New Hampshire
• Brookfield, New York
• Brookfield, Ohio
• Brookfield, Vermont
• Brookfield, Wisconsin, the largest Brookfield
• Brookfield (town), Wisconsin
• Brookfield Township (disambiguation) (several)
• Brookfield in Oakland, California

Companies[link]

• Brookfield Asset Management
• Brookfield Properties
• Brookfield Engineering, a manufacturer of viscometers

Fictional[link]

• Brookfield, a farm featured prominently in the British radio soap opera The Archers

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Stephen Brookfield (born 1949 in Liverpool, England) is an internationally acclaimed scholar in adult education who holds the title of Distinguished University Professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. Before that he was a Professor of Higher and Adult Education at Columbia University in New York for ten years. During 2002 he was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University.

In his teaching career Stephen Brookfield has worked in England, Canada, Australia, and the U.S., teaching in a variety of college settings. He has written fourteen books on adult learning, adult teaching, critical thinking, discussion methods and critical theory as well as critical pedagogy. He has won the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education four times (in 1986, 1989, 1996 and 2005). He also won the 1986 Imogene Okes Award for Outstanding Research in Adult Education. His work has been translated into several languages includingKorean, German, Finnish, Japanese and Chinese. 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" and in 2008 he was awarded the Morris T. Keeton Award for Contributions to Adult and Experiential learning, awarded by the Council for Academic and Experiential Learning.

He has three honorary doctor of letters degrees; from the University System of New Hampshire in 1991, from Concordia University, St. Paul (St. Paul, Minnesota) in 2003, and from Muhlenberg College in 2010. In 2009 he was inducted into the Adult Education Hall of Fame.

Books[link]

• Adult Learners, Adult Education and the Community, 1984. ISBN 0-335-10409-6
• Self-Directed Learning: from Theory to Practice, 1985. ISBN 0-87589-743-6
• Understanding and Facilitating Adult Learning: A Comprehensive Analysis of Principles and Effective Practices, 1986. ISBN 978-1-55542-355-1
• Developing Critical Thinkers: Challenging Adults to Explore Alternative Ways of Thinking and Acting, 1987. ISBN 978-1-55542-055-0
• Training Educators of Adults: The Theory and Practice of Graduate Adult Education, 1988. ISBN 0-415-00564-7
• Learning Democracy: Eduard Lindeman on Adult Education and Social Change, 1988. ISBN 0-7099-5017-9
• The Skillful Teacher: On Trust, Technique and Responsiveness in the Classroom, 2006 (2nd edition). ISBN 978-0-7879-8066-5
• Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher, 1995. ISBN 978-0-7879-0131-8
• Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms (with Stephen Preskill), 2nd. edition, 2005. ISBN 978-0-7879-4458-2
• The Power of Critical Theory: Liberating Adult Learning and Teaching, 2005. ISBN 978-0-7879-5601-1

"Teaching Reflectively in Theological Contexts: Promises and Contradictions", Co-edited with Mary Hess, 2008. ISBN 1-57524-284-2

• Leading as a Way of Learning: Lessons From the Struggle for Social Justice (with Stephen Preskill), 2009. ISBN 978-0-7879-7807-5

"Handbook of Race and Adult Education" (Co-edited with Vanessa Sheared, Scipio Colin III, Elizabeth Peterson and Juanita Johnson Bailey), 2010. ISBN 978047038176

• Radicalizing Learning: Adult Education for a Just World (with John Holst), 2010 ISBN 978-0-7879-9825-7

Links[link]

• http://stephenbrookfield.com/