Question : Critical theory is usually not written in terms immediately recognizable to those of us primarily interested in adult learning. Yet, an analysis of adult learning is usually implicit in its propositions. Welton (1991, 1993, 1995) is perhaps the most forceful expositor of how critical theory, specifically that associated with Jurgen Habermas, threads a theory of adult learning through its analysis. Subsumed within the general desire of critical theory to understand and then challenge the continuous reproduction of social, political, and economic domination are a number of related concerns. One of these is to investigate how dominant ideologies educate people to believe certain ways of organizing society are in their own best interests when the opposite is true. Another is to illuminate how the spirit of capitalism, and of technical and bureaucratic rationality, enters into and distorts everyday relationships (what Habermas calls the colonolization of the lifeworld by the system). A third (and this is particularly important to a theory of adult learning) is to understand how people learn to identify and then oppose the ideological forces and social processes that oppress them.
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From page 21 of Steven Brookfield, The Power of Critical Theory: Liberating Adult Learning and Teaching.2004 San Francisco Jossey-Bass- This is the source of the article