Faculty Identities and the Challenge of Diversity

Reflections on Teaching in Higher Education
Herausgeber: Chesler, Mark A.; Young Jr., Alford A.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores how academic teachers address the diverse racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual identities of their students.

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This book focuses on understanding the experiences of faculty members of various races/ethnicities and genders and their classroom encounters with students in the United States. It illustrates some of the dynamics for faculty members facing the challenges and opportunities the diversity presents.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9781612051154
• ISBN-10: 1612051154
• Artikelnr.: 39758566

Autorenporträt

Mark Chesler is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He is the author most recently of Challenging Racism in the University (with Amanda Lewis and James Crowfoot). Alford A. Young Jr. is Professor of Sociology and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. His most recent book is The Minds of Marginalized Black Men: Making Sense of Mobility, Opportunity, and Future Life Chances.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Background and Contexts 1. The State of Research with Faculty
Identities in Higher Educational Classrooms and Institutional Contexts 2.
Issues of Research Design and Reflexivity 3. A Schematic for Analyzing
Conflict in the University Classroom Part II: Difference and Diversity in
Classroom Interactions 4. How Race and Gender Shape Perceived Challenges to
Classroom Authority and Expertise 5. Identity, Power, and Conflict:
Pedagogical Strategies for Successful Classroom Peer Dynamics 6. Responding
to "Hot Button Issues": Pedagogical Approaches to Racial Conflict in the
Classroom Part III: Examinations of the Role of Identity 7. Racial
Practices in the Classroom: White Faculty's Pedagogical Enactments That
Reproduce and/or Transform White Dominance 8. Race, Gender, and Bodily
(Mis)Recognitions: Women of Color Faculty Experiences with White Students
9. Putting Their Bodies Off the Line: The Response of Men Faculty of Color
to Classroom-Based Conflict Part IV: Larger Contexts . . . and Change 10.
"Why Don't You Get Somebody New to Do It?": Race, Gender, and Identity
Taxation in the Academy 11. Advocates for Diversity . . . Or Not: Faculty
Members as Change-Agents? 12. Challenge, Advocacy, and Change