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



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Titolo: Achieving against the odds : how academics become teachers of diverse students / / edited by Esther Kingston-Mann and Tim Sieber Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2001
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
Disciplina: 378.1/9829
Soggetto topico: Minority college students - Massachusetts - Boston
Multicultural education - Massachusetts - Boston
College environment - Massachusetts - Boston
Cultural pluralism
Altri autori: Kingston-MannEsther  
SieberR. Timothy  
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
Titolo autorizzato: Achieving against the odds  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786612047107
1-282-04710-8
1-4399-0118-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811089203321
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Serie: New academy.