Teaching across cultural strengths : a guide to balancing integrated and individuated cultural frameworks in college teaching / Alicia Fedelina Chávez and Susan Diana Longerbeam ; foreword by Joseph L. White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chavez, Alicia Fedelina, author.

Longerbeam, Susan Diana, author.

Contributor:

White, Joseph L., writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teaching--Social aspects.

College teaching.

Culturally relevant pedagogy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Sterling, Virginia : Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The key premise of the book is that deepening student learning and increasing retention and graduation rates requires teaching from a strengths based perspective that recognizes the cultural assets that students bring to higher education, and to their own learning.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Musings From Alicia...

Musings From Susan...

Our Shared Story of Learning Across Cultural Strengths

Chapter Overview

A Call Faculty

We Are Deeply Grateful

A Note About the Cover

1. Balancing Cultural Strengths in Teaching

Reimagining Teaching Toward a Culturally Strengths-Based Approach

Acknowledging a World With Many Oppressions

Cultural Frameworks, Epistemologies, and Worldviews

From Monocultural to Multicultural

A Model of Cultural Frameworks in College Teaching and Learning

Integrated and Individuated Cultures in Teaching and Learning

Both~And: A Cultural Key to Learning

A Note About Inequity in Learning

Teaching Within an Epistemology of Cultural Both~And

Applying a Model of Cultural Frameworks to Teaching Practice

Taking It From Here to Enrich Learning Over Time

Notes

2. Culture in College Teaching

Theoretical Underpinnings of Our Work

A Note on Essentializing and Intersectionality

The Changing Student Body Alongside the Relatively Unchanging Faculty

Student Completion Rates

Faculty Matter

Culture Matters

Elements of Culture

Ethnicity and Race

U.S. Higher Education Heritage and the Invisibility of Monoculturalism

Cultural Strengths

Culture Matters to Learning

The Expanding Nature of Learning Environments

Neuroscience Supports Balancing Cultural Frameworks

Engaged Learning Leads to Boundary Crossing

Note

3. Rewards, Dilemmas, and Challenges of Teaching Across Cultural Frameworks

Core Principles

Opportunities and Rewards of Culturally Engaged Teaching

Vulnerability of Culturally Engaged Teaching

Design Dilemmas

Personal Challenges of Culturally Engaged Teaching

Conclusion.

4. Applying Cultural Introspection to Teaching and Learning

Going Inward: Knowing Ourselves Culturally as Faculty

Developing Our Teaching Through Cultural Introspection

Looking Outward: Learning Culturally About Students

Conclusion

5. Strengths-Based Teaching in Cultural Context

Getting Started: Conceptualizing

Reimagining Our Teaching: The Influence of Teaching Philosophy on Learning, Student Success, and Retention

When Everyone's Learning Is the Objective: Pedagogy, Facilitation, and Interaction Across Cultural Frameworks

Time, Timing, and Scheduling

Climate, Facilitation, and Interaction

Initiating and Sustaining Student Engagement Across Cultures

Balancing Activities Across Cultural Norms, Learning Processes, and Personalities

Additional Considerations

6. Top 10 Things Faculty Can Do to Teach Across Cultures

Self-Reflect Culturally

Modify One Cultural Continuum

Talk With Three Students

Explore One Negative Attribution

Share With Students the Value of Balancing Cultural Frameworks

Connect to Student Lives

Partner With Students

Make a Personal Connection

Assess Creatively

Consider the Rewards

7. Spreading the Cultural Word: Faculty Development on a Larger Scale

On-Campus Culture and Teaching Seminars

Multiple-Day Culture and Teaching Institutes

Sustained Culture and Teaching Faculty Cohorts

Websites

Individual Self-Development

Informal Sharing

National and International Presentations and Institutes

Resources

8. The Story of Our Work With Faculty

Realizing Our Hopes

Beginnings

Coming Together and Planning

Philosophical and Organizational Underpinnings

The Faculty Development Project

The Program

Final Assessment

Research

Faculty Group Dynamics.

Final Reflections: Toward Learning Equity: Cultivating a Culture of Belief in Students

Appendix A: Guide to Writing a Culture and Teaching Autobiography

Steps of Analysis

Appendix B: Resources

Theory and Research on Culture and Teaching in Higher Education

Teaching Guides Related to Culture and Teaching: Collegiate, K-12, and Adult Learning Sources

Faculty Teaching Introspection

Learning Theory and Research

References

About the Authors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-344734-1

1-000-97531-2

1-003-44734-1

1-62036-325-9

9781003447344

OCLC:

944934791