Broschiertes Buch

Confronting Equity Issues on Campus

Implementing the Equity Scorecard in Theory and Practice

Herausgeber: Bensimon, Estela Mara; Malcom, Lindsey

Beschreibung

This book presents the underlying concept of funds of knowledge for race-conscious expertise that informs this process, describes its underlying theories; defines the attributes needed to achieve equity-minded practice; demonstrates, through examples of implementation and provides a blueprint for action for higher education as a whole.

Autor

Estela Mara Bensimon is a professor of higher education and co-director of the Center for Urban Education at the USC Rossier School of Education. Her current research is on issues of racial equity in higher education from the perspective of organizational learning and sociocultural practice theories. She is particularly interested in place-based, practitioner-driven inquiry as a means of organizational change in higher education. Dr. Bensimon has held the highest leadership positions in the Association for the Study of Higher Education (president, 2005-2006) and in the American Education Research Association-Division on Postsecondary Education (vice president, 1992-1994). She has served on the boards of the American Association for Higher Education and the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Dr. Bensimon was associate dean of the USC Rossier School of Education from 1996 to 2000 and was a Fulbright Scholar to Mexico in 2002. She earned her doctorate in higher education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Lindsey Malcom is an assistant professor of higher education administration in the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the George Washington University. She received her bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her master's degree from the California Institute of Technology, and her PhD in Education from the University of Southern California. Lindsey's scholarship focuses on broadening participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9781579227081
• ISBN-10: 1579227082
• Artikelnr.: 33462032