This volume provides insights into the teaching and learning practices and experiences of diversity educators and their students. College-level teachers from such disciplines as biology, social work, sex education, communication, political science, English literature, and criminology share their general philosophy of teaching and the challenges they face in the classroom.
This unique book integrates compelling letters from former students within each teacher’s chapter. These narratives provide insightful observations about diversity lessons learned while in class–and how classroom experiences have transferred to these former students’ professional and personal lives.
This book will be useful to college teachers who currently teach courses with a diversity-focused content, or who plan to incorporate diversity content within an existing course. Directors of teaching and learning centers, coordinators of doctoral programs and TA centers will also find helpful information and insights about pedagogy, process, and learning outcomes.
Author(s): Deborah A. Brunson; Brenda Jarmon; Linda L. Lampl
Publisher: Stylus Publishing
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 309
City: Sterling, Va.
1. Diversity initiatives, institutional change, and curricular reform in higher education / Devorah A. Lieberman --
2. power of narratives in the process of teaching and learning about diversity / Brenda Jarmon / Daniel R. Vicker / James McFarland / Audrey Mathews / Martin Jarmond / Sherick A. Hughes / Mary Cole / Deborah "Debbie" Cardamone / Linda L. Lampl / Deborah A. Brunson --
3. Biological diversity / Dayna E. Wilhelm / Laurie Spotswood / Jill Sible / Muriel Lederman --
4. Curriculum and race / Earl Sheridan / Tracie Davis / James Fogleman / Frances Boyes --
5. Literature, self-discovery, and identity : cultural difference and its impact on black students' language engagement / Patricia Brown McDonald / Aquilla Copeland / Michael Gramenz --
6. social construction of diversity learning : reflections from a "Haole" / Yoke-Wee Loh / Malia J. Smith / Zac Gersh / Patricia Fonyad / Scott W. Campbell --
7. Intercultural competence : from the classroom to the "real world" and back again / Randy K. Dillon / Kurtis Lane / Marlo Hamilton / Christopher Dixon / Mindy Shelton --
8. Narrative analysis of a strengths-based approach to preparing students for graduate and postgraduate education / Aaron Scort Taylor / Dalkis Muir / Jessica Hernandez / Crystal Smith / Karen Bullock --
9. Bridging the transgenerational gaps between diversity and justice : personal, professional, and pedagogical insights from courses on race, diversity, and crime / Albert Kopak / Francesca Danielle Lewis / Natasha Norton / Vanessa Patino / Billy R. Close / Isabelle Delatour --
10. Dialogue, reflection, and critical analysis : self/other crossing ideological borders / Warren Scheideman / Adrienne Sansom / Kazuko Matsuda / Tanya O. Brown / Leila E. Villaverde
