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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811089203321

Titolo

Achieving against the odds [[electronic resource] ] : how academics become teachers of diverse students / / edited by Esther Kingston-Mann and Tim Sieber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2001

ISBN

9786612047107

1-282-04710-8

1-4399-0118-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

The new academy

Altri autori (Persone)

Kingston-MannEsther

SieberR. Timothy

Disciplina

378.1/9829

Soggetti

Minority college students - Massachusetts - Boston

Multicultural education - Massachusetts - Boston

College environment - Massachusetts - Boston

Cultural pluralism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 9 Teaching, Learning, and Judging: Some Reflections on the University and Political Legitimacy; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Achieving Against the Odds; 1 Coming Out and Leading Out: Pedagogy Beyond the Closet; 2 Three Steps Forward, One Step Back: Dilemmas of Upward Mobility; 3 Learning to Listen to Students and Oneself; 4 Language and Cultural Capital: Reflections of a "Junior" Professor; 5 Racial Problems in Society and in the Classroom; 6 Teaching (as) Composing

7 Teaching, Tenure, and Institutional Transformation: 125 Reflections on Race, Culture, and Resilience at an Urban Public University 8 Teaching American Dreams/American Realities: Students' Lives and Faculty Agendas; 10 Gender Trouble in the Gender Course: Managing and Mismanaging Conflict in the Classroom; 11 Odd Man Out; About the Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

""High school was like a penance imposed for some unknown sin. Everything I ever learned that was important was learned outside of



school. So I never thought to associate schools with learning."" (Amy, UMass Boston student)Today's diverse and financially burdened students enter  higher education eager to succeed at institutions originally designed for culturally homogeneous and predominantly white middle-class populations. They are expected to learn from faculty trained primarily as researchers. Unsurprisingly, student dropout and faculty burnout rates are high, leading some conser