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Achieving against the odds : how academics become teachers of diverse students / edited by Esther Kingston-Mann and Tim Sieber.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New academy
- The new academy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minority college students--Massachusetts--Boston--Case studies.
- Minority college students.
- Multicultural education--Massachusetts--Boston--Case studies.
- Multicultural education.
- College environment--Massachusetts--Boston.
- College environment.
- Cultural pluralism.
- University of Massachusetts at Boston.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 222 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- This collection of essays written by non-traditional faculty on non-traditional students documents a complex and challenging process of pedagogical transformation.
- Contents:
- Introduction, Achieving against the odds / Esther Kingston-Mann and Tim Sieber
- Coming out and leading out : pedagogy beyond the closet / Kathleen M. Sands
- Three steps forward, one step back : dilemmas of upward mobility / Esther Kingston-Mann
- Learning to listen to students and oneself / Tim Sieber
- Language and cultural capital : reflections of a "junior" professor / Reyes Coll-Tellechea
- Racial problems in society and in the classroom / Castellano B. Turner
- Teaching (as) composing / Vivian Zamel
- Teaching, tenure, and institutional transformation : reflections on race, culture, and resilience at an urban public university / Peter Nien-chu Kiang
- Teaching American dreams/American realities : students' lives and faculty agendas / Lois Rudnick
- Teaching, learning, and judging : some reflections on the university and political legitimacy / Winston E. Langley
- Gender trouble in the gender course : managing and mismanaging conflict in the classroom / Estelle Disch
- Odd man out / Pancho Savery.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1566398509
- 1566398517
- OCLC:
- 44676127
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