Through a discussion with Hal, I have a better understanding of the distinction I want to make between authority and hegemony. Librarians often teach authority in a hegemonic way, but the new/accelerating degredation of authority actually strengthens hegemony. Authority can oppose hegemony if we can reclaim it from the wisdom of the masses. We lose a powerful force we could marshal for social justice and transformative learning when we eschew authority. Adult education has a position on hegemony that sometimes also gets wound up with authority. If information literacy has a strong position on the uses of authority and can make a positive case for it, we could extend or clarify the definition used by adult educators. More likely, the application of adult education principles to the professional development of librarians would deepen and contextualize our understanding of authority, our role in promoting various views of authority, and our beliefs about the future of authority. It could influence some of our decisions about the uses of new information technologies and change what we recommend when we collaborate with classroom faculty.
Maybe for Adult Education Quarterly or Journal of Tranformative Education.
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