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Transforming the Academy : Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy / Sarah Willie-LeBreton.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational equalization--United States.
- Educational equalization.
- Minorities--Education (Higher)--United States.
- Minorities.
- Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.
- Education, Higher.
- Education, Higher--Curricula--United States.
- Education, Higher--Social aspects--United States.
- College teaching--Social aspects--United States.
- College teaching.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- In recent decades, American universities have begun to tout the "diversity" of their faculty and student bodies. But what kinds of diversity are being championed in their admissions and hiring practices, and what kinds are being neglected? Is diversity enough to solve the structural inequalities that plague our universities? And how might we articulate the value of diversity in the first place? Transforming the Academy begins to answer these questions by bringing together a mix of faculty-male and female, cisgender and queer, immigrant and native-born, tenured and contingent, white, black, multiracial, and other-from public and private universities across the United States. Whether describing contentious power dynamics within their classrooms or recounting protests that occurred on their campuses, the book's contributors offer bracingly honest inside accounts of both the conflicts and the learning experiences that can emerge from being a representative of diversity. The collection's authors are united by their commitment to an ideal of the American university as an inclusive and transformative space, one where students from all backgrounds can simultaneously feel intellectually challenged and personally supported. Yet Transforming the Academy also offers a wide range of perspectives on how to best achieve these goals, a diversity of opinion that is sure to inspire lively debate.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Challenges of Diversity and Pedagogy / Willie-LeBreton, Sarah
- PART I. CHALLENGING CLASSROOMS
- 1. Decentering Whiteness: Teaching Antiracism on a Predominantly White Campus / Smith, Michael D. / Tuck, Eve
- 2. Is There a Silver Lining? The Experiences of a Black Female Teaching Assistant / Kusi-Appouh, Dela
- 3. Radical Leftist or Objective Practitioner? Perceptions of a Black Male Professor / Ellis, H. Mark
- 4. Teaching Difference in Multiple Ways: Through Content and Presence / Jones-Walker, Cheryl
- 5. What You May Not See: The Oscillating Critique / Hebert, Pato
- 6. The Professor, Her Colleague, and Her Student: Two Race-Related Stories / Willie-LeBreton, Sarah
- 7. Challenging Oppression in Moderation? Student Feedback in Diversity Courses / Chikkatur, Anita
- PART II. WITNESSING PROTEST
- 8. The (S)Paces of Academic Work: Disability, Access, and Higher Education / Lindgren, Kristin
- 9. Queer Affects/Queer Access / Ward, Anna
- 10. Geographies of Difference: From Unity to Solidarity / Sasaki, Betty G.
- 11. La Promesa: Working with Latina and Latino Students in an Elite Liberal Arts College / Camacho de Schmidt, Aurora
- 12. Passing Strange: Embodying and Negotiating Difference in Academia / Lamothe, Daphne
- 13. A Dean's Week: "Trapdoors and Glass Ceilings" / Tensuan, Theresa
- Conclusion: Theorizing the Transformation of the Twenty-First- Century Campus / Willie-LeBreton, Sarah
- References
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Sep 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-8135-6509-X
- OCLC:
- 957249080
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