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This collection of essays written by non-traditional faculty on non-traditional students documents a complex and challenging process of pedagogical transformation.
List of contents
Foreword Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich Acknowledgments Introduction: Achieving Against the Odds Esther Kingston-Mann and Tim Sieber 1. Coming Out and Leading Out: Pedagogy Beyond the Closet Kathleen M. Sands 2. Three Steps Forward, One Step Back: Dilemmas of Upward Mobility Esther Kingston-Mann 3. Learning to Listen to Students and Oneself Tim Sieber 4. Language and Cultural Capital: Reflections of a "Junior" Professor Reyes Coll-Tellechea 5. Racial Problems in Society and in the Classroom Castellano B. Turner 6. Teaching (as) Composing Vivian Zamel 7. Teaching, Tenure, and Institutional Transformation: Reflections on Race, Culture, and Resilience at an Urban Public University Peter Nien-Chu Kiang 8.Teaching American Dreams/American Realities: Students' Lives and Faculty Agendas Lois Rudnick 9. Teaching, Learning, and Judging: Some Reflections on the University and Political Legitimacy Winston E. Langley 10. Gender Trouble in the Gender Course: Managing and Mismanaging Conflict in the Classroom Estelle Disch 11. Odd Man Out Pancho Savery About the Contributors Index
About the author
Esther Kingston-Mann is Professor of History and American Studies, and directs the Center for the Improvement of Teaching at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Tim Sieber is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the same institution.
Summary
Today's diverse and financially burdened students enter higher education eager to succeed at institutions originally designed for culturally homogenous and predominantly white middle-class populations. This title documents a complex and challenging process of pedagogical transformation.
