College Curriculum at the Crossroads

Women of Color Reflect and Resist
Herausgeber: Edwards, Kirsten T; del Guadalupe Davidson, Maria

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Produktbeschreibung

College Curriculum at the Crossroads explores the ways in which college curriculum is complicated, informed, understood, resisted, and enriched by women of color. This text challenges the canon of curriculum development which foregrounds the experiences of white people, men and other dominant subject positions

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781138721005
• ISBN-10: 113872100X
• Artikelnr.: 50359392

Autorenporträt

Kirsten T. Edwards is Assistant Professor of Adult and Higher Education and Women's and Gender Studies affiliate faculty at the University of Oklahoma. She earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration with cognates in both Curriculum Theory and Women's and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University. Her research merges philosophies of higher education, college curriculum, and pedagogy. More specifically, Dr. Edwards is interested in the ways that socio-cultural identity and context influence faculty, teaching, and learning in post-secondary education. She is co-editor (with Denise Taliaferro Baszile and Nichole A. Guillory) of Race, Gender, and Curriculum Theorizing: Working in Womanish Ways. Maria del Guadalupe Davidson is Associate Professor and Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program, and Co-Director for the Women's and Gender Studies Center for Social Justice at the University of Oklahoma. She earned her Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Duquesne University. She researches in the areas of rhetorical theory and criticism, black feminism, and Africana philosphical thought. Her most recent publication is Black Women, Agency, and the New Black Feminism (2017). She has co-edited several volumes including: Our Black Sons Matter: Mothers Talk about Fears, Sorrows, and Hopes (2016); Exploring Race in Predominately White Classrooms (2014); and Critical Perspectives on bell hooks (2009). She is currently working on a book about the artist Kara Walker.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Series Editor's Introduction
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Pedagogical Poetics and Curricular Design in the Interracial
Classroom: A Black Female Perspective
2 Somo Gente Estudiada: Creating Change Within and Outside
the Walls of Academia
3 Black Feminist/Womanist Epistemologies, Pedagogies, and
Methodologies: A Review of Literature
4 Academic Sapphires: College Curriculum at the Intersection
of Race, Gender, and Black Women's Subversion
5 For Women of Color who have Considered Critical Social
Theories: When the Dominant Narrative is no Longer Enough
6 Black Women, Curriculum Design, and the
Subject of Disidentification
7 Transgressing Curriculum Boundaries
8 Curriculum as Community Building, Liberation, Resistance
and Empowerment: Reflections from Fifteen Years of Teaching
9 De donde tu eres: Pedagogies of a Puerto Rican Academic
10 In the Space Between Argo and Shahs of Sunset is
Where I Teach
11 Teaching to Transgress: Africana Studies as a Support for
Black Student Activism
List of Contributors
Index