{"product_id":"transforming-the-academy-faculty-perspectives-on-diversity-and-pedagogy-paperback-softback-9780813565071","title":"Transforming the Academy; Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813565071","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTransforming the Academy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFaculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSarah Willie-LeBreton (Edited by), Michael D. Smith (Contributions by), Eve Tuck (Contributions by), Dela Kusi-Appouh (Contributions by), H. Mark Ellis (Contributions by), Cheryl Jones-Walker (Contributions by), Patrick \"Pato\" Hebert (Contributions by), Sarah Willie-LeBreton (Contributions by), Anita Chikkatur (Contributions by), Kristin Lindgren (Contributions by), Anna Ward (Contributions by), Betty Sasaki (Contributions by), Aurora Camacho de Schmidt (Contributions by), Daphne Lamothe (Contributions by), Theresa Tensuan (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813565071\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 May 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"This inspiring book wonderfully fuses scholarship, personal experiences, and pragmatism, offering penetrating analyses of the challenges and benefits of living and teaching diversity and identifying conditions needed for transformation.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e - Caroline Hodges Persell (author of Education and Inequality: The Roots and Results of Stratification in America's Schools) \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"Transforming the Academy\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the meaning behind the sweeping changes in college classroom diversity, the benefits that greater diversity brings to educational institutions, and the unique challenges faced by groups historically shut out from post-secondary education. This book is required reading for ANYONE who works in higher education or is preparing someone to attend college.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Charles Gallagher (author of Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Taken together, these personal narratives provide powerful, often moving, evidence of the continuing struggle for greater inclusivity and diversity on US campuses ... The contributors to this volume, mostly young and female, should be commended for opening their academic lives to help open our eyes to the ongoing need for change.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (H-Teach) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A remarkably cohesive whole with themes that transcend individual anecdotes or identity markers. This is a book, as Willie-LeBreton proposes, that has the potential to shed light where it is needed, to bring people together under a common purpose, and to celebrate the work people are already doing to help their campuses fulfill the promise of diversity.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Harvard Educational Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn recent decades, American universities have begun to tout the “diversity” of their faculty and student bodies. But what kinds of diversity are being championed in their admissions and hiring practices, and what kinds are being neglected? Is diversity enough to solve the structural inequalities that plague our universities? And how might we articulate the value of diversity in the first place? \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTransforming the Academy\u003c\/i\u003e begins to answer these questions by bringing together a mix of faculty-male and female, cisgender and queer, immigrant and native-born, tenured and contingent, white, black, multiracial, and other-from public and private universities across the United States. Whether describing contentious power dynamics within their classrooms or recounting protests that occurred on their campuses, the book’s contributors offer bracingly honest inside accounts of both the conflicts and the learning experiences that can emerge from being a representative of diversity. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe collection’s authors are united by their commitment to an ideal of the American university as an inclusive and transformative space, one where students from all backgrounds can simultaneously feel intellectually challenged and personally supported. Yet \u003ci\u003eTransforming the Academy\u003c\/i\u003e also offers a wide range of perspectives on how to best achieve these goals, a diversity of opinion that is sure to inspire lively debate. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e    Full Steps Forward, Half Steps Back-The Diversity Challenge of Pedagogy                                              \u003cbr\u003e Sarah Willie-LeBreton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: \u003c\/b\u003eChallenging Classrooms\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1        Decentering Whiteness: Teaching Anti-racism on a Predominantly White Campus\u003cbr\u003e Michael D. Smith and Eve Tuck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2        Is there a Silver Lining? The Experiences of a Black female Teaching Assistant                                                                 \u003cbr\u003e Dela Kusi-Appouh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3        Radical Leftist or Objective Practitioner? Perceptions of a Black Male Professor\u003cbr\u003e H. Mark Ellis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4        Teaching Difference in Multiple Ways: Through Content and Presence\u003cbr\u003e Cheryl Jones-Walker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5        What You May Not See: The Oscillating Critique\u003cbr\u003e Pato Hebert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6        The Professor, Her Colleague, and Her Student: Two Race-Related Stories\u003cbr\u003e Sarah Willie-LeBreton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7        Challenging Oppression in Moderation? Student Feedback in Diversity Courses\u003cbr\u003e Anita Chikkatur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II:\u003c\/b\u003e Witnessing Protest\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8        The (S)paces of Academic Work: Disability, Access, and Higher Education\u003cbr\u003e Kristin Lindgren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9        Queer Affects\/Queer Access             \u003cbr\u003e Anna Ward\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10      Geographies of Difference: From Unity to Solidarity\u003cbr\u003e Betty Sasaki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11      \u003ci\u003eLa Promesa:\u003c\/i\u003e Working with Latina\/o Students in an Elite Liberal Arts College\u003cbr\u003e Aurora Camacho de Schmidt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12      Passing Strange: Embodying and Negotiating Difference in Academia\u003cbr\u003e Daphne Lamothe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13      A Dean’\u003cbr\u003es Week: “\u003cbr\u003eTrap Doors and Glass Ceilings”\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e Theresa Tensuan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e      Theorizing the Transformation of the 21st Century Campus\u003cbr\u003e Sarah Willie-LeBreton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e About the Contributors\u003cbr\u003e End Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559342666008,"sku":"9780813565071","price":23.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/transforming-the-academy-faculty-perspectives-on-diversity-and-pedagogy-paperback-softback-9780813565071","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}