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"'Nothing Can Ever Be the Case of 'Us' and 'Them' Again': Exploring the Politics of Difference Through Border Pedagogy and Student Journal Writing"
Cook, Ian
Journal of Geography in Higher Education 24, no. 1 (2000): 13-27
2000
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"A Carpenter's Daughter: A Working Class Woman in Higher Education"
Christopher, Renny
in This Fine Place So Far From Home: Voices of Academics From the Working Class (Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1995), 137-150
1995
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"A Contending Pedagogy: Asian American Studies as Extracurricular Praxis"
Hyun Yi Kang, Laura
in Teaching Asian America: Diversity and the Problem of Community (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998),123-141
1998
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"Academic Culture: The Hidden Curriculum"
Adams, Maurianne
Teaching Excellence 3, no. 6 (1991)
1991
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"Acknowledging the Learning Styles of Diverse Student Populations"
Anderson, James A., and Maurianne Adams
in Teaching for Diversity (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1992), 19-33
1992
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"African American Men and the Academy"
Green, Paul
in Brothers of the Academy: Up and Coming Black Scholars Earning Our Way in Higher Education (Sterling VA: Stylus Publishing, 2000), 1-20
2000
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"African Students in Theological Doctoral Programs in Christian Institutions of Higher Education"
Starcher, Richard L.
Christian Higher Education 3, no. 3 (2004): 207-222
2004
From the Publisher
Over the years, thousands of students have left Africa to pursue theological doctorates in Christian institutions of higher learning around the world. The study reported in this paper endeavored to understand their experiences and articulate their needs and aspirations. Data were collected through semistructured interviews with 23 African students and were analyzed using grounded theory procedures. The emerging profile revealed...
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"African-American Cultural Knowledge and Liberatory Education: Dilemmas, Problems, and Potentials in a Postmodern American Society"
Gordon, Beverly M.
Urban Education 27, no. 4 (1993): 448-470
1993
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"Approaching Diversity: Some Classroom Strategies for Learning Communities"
Koolsbergen, William
Peer Review 3-4, no. 4-1 (2001): 25-27
2001
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"Beyond Politics: The Educational Issues Inherent in Multicultural Education"
Gaff, Jerry G.
Change, Jan/Feb (1992): 31-35
1992
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"Blue Collar, Crimson Blazer: Recollections of Class on Campus"
Mar, M. Elaine
Harvard Magazine 98, no. 2 (1995): 47-51
1995
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"Center to Margin: Dynamics in a Global Classroom"
De Danaan, Llyn
Women's Studies Quarterly 18, no. 1 & 2 (1990): 135-144
1990
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"Class in the Classroom"
Warren, Lee
National Teaching & Learning FORUM 7, no. 5 (1998): 1-4
1998
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"Cognitive Styles and Multicultural Populations"
Anderson, James A.
Journal of Teacher Education 39, no. 1 (1988): 2-9.
1988
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"Common Instructional Problems in the Multicultural Classroom"
Jenkins, Carol A., and Deborah L. Bainer
Journal on Excellence in College Teaching 2 (1991): 77-88
1991
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"Critical Race Theory, Latino Critical Theory, and Critical Raced-Gendered Epistemologies: Recognizing Students of Color as Holders and Creators of Knowledge"
Bernal, Dolores Delgado
Qualitative Inquiry 8, no. 1 (2002): 105-126
2002
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"Diversity and Community: Right Objectives and Wrong Arguments"
Wong, Frank F.
Change July/Aug (1991): 48-54
1991
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"Diversity in Theological Education - a folio"
Foster, Charles, Julia M Speller and Jack Seymour
Theological Education 38, no. 2 (2002): 15-37, 56-70
2002
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"Diversity in Theological Education"
Foster, Charles R.
Theological Education 38, no. 2 (2002): 15-37
2002
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"Doing Multiculturalism: Conceptualizing Curricular Change"
Rosenfelt, Deborah S.
in Handbook for Multicultural Infusion in Higher Education (New York: Allyn & Bacon, 1996), 35-55
1996
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"Dominance Concealed through Diversity: Implications of Inadequate Perspectives on Cultural Pluralism"
Boyd, Dwight
Harvard Educational Review 66, no. 3 (1996): 609-630
1996
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"Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies, and Multiculturalism"
Butler, Johnnella, and Betty Schmitz
Change Jan/Feb (1992): 37-41
1992
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"Faculty Diversity: Too Little For Too Long"
Trower, Cathy A., and Richard P. Chait
Harvard Magazine 104, no. 4 (2002): 33-38
2002
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"Fostering Positive Race, Class, and Gender Dynamics in the Classroom"
Cannon, Lynn Weber
Women's Studies Quarterly 18, no. 1 & 2 (1990): 126-134
1990
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"Impediments to Teaching a Culturally Diverse Undergraduate Population"
Solomon, Barbara
Teaching Excellence 2, no. 4 (1990)
1990
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"Issues in Achieving Pluralism in Faculty Development: The Challenge and Opportunity of Inclusivity"
Berling, Judith
Theological Education 28, no. 1 (1991): 47-57
1991
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"Descriptions of a Tree Outside the Forest"
Lacourt, Jeanne, A.
American Indian Quarterly 27, no 1 & 2 (2003): 296-307
2003
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Being Black Teaching Black: Politics and Pedagogy in Religious Studies
Westfield, Nancy Lynne, ed.
Abingdon Press, Nashville, TN
2008
From the Publisher
A group of eminent African American scholars of religoius and theological studies examines the problems and prospects of Black scholarhip in the theological academy. They assess the role that prominent African American scholars have played in transforming the study and teaching of religion and theology, the need for a more thorough-going incorporation of the fruits of black scholarship into the mainstream of the academic study...
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The Sage Handbook of African American Education
Linda C. Tillman, ed.
Sage Publications, Inc. Thousand Oaks, CA
2009
From The Publisher
The SAGE Handbook of African American Education is a unique, comprehensive collection of theoretical and empirical scholarship in six important areas: historical perspectives, teaching and learning, PK-12 school leadership, higher education, current issues, and education policy. The purpose of the Handbook is to articulate perspectives on issues affecting the participation and leadership of African Americans in PK-12 and...
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Inclusion and Diversity: Meeting the Needs of All Students
Grace, Sue and Phil Gravestock
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York
2009
From the Publisher
How should you prepare for the first day of class? How can you encourage all students to participate in discussions? How do you ensure disabled students can take part in field work? Increasingly, universities are drawing from a less traditional group of students international students, disabled students, part time students, and mature students. This book offers specific, practical advice on the issues that teachers encounter...
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Answering the Call: African American Women in Higher Education Leadership
From the Publisher
Although much has been written about leaders and leadership, we unfortunately know little about women, particularly minority women, who fill this particular role.
This book the second in a series that explores women leaders in different contexts presents the stories, and the reflections on their paths to leadership, of seven African American women. Five are, or have been, college presidents; three have devoted...
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"Kitchen Table Banter as Engaged Pedagogy"
Westfield, N. Lynne
Religious Education 96, no. 3 (2001): 423-429
2001
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"Knowing Ourselves as Instructors"
Bell, Lee Anne, Sharon Washington, Gerald Weinstein, and Barbara Love
in Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice (New York: Routledge, 1997), 299-310
1997
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"Multicultural Education: Historical Development, Dimensions, and Practice"
Banks, James A.
in Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education (New York: Macmillan, 1995), 3-24
1995
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"Pedagogical Expectations of Hispanic Americans: Insights for Leadership Training"
Wilson, Norman G.
Christian Education Journal 1NS, no. 1 (1997): 65-81
1997
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"Pedagogy of the Distressed"
Tompkins, Jane
College English 52, no. 6 (1990): 653-660
1990
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"Pluralisms in the United States and in the American Empire"
Gardella, Peter
Religious Studies Review 29, no. 3 (2003): 255-259
2003
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"Race in the Classroom" w/booklet
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"Reaching African-American Students in the Classroom"
Collett, Jonathan
To Improve the Academy 9 (1990): 177-188
1990
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"Realities, Visions, and Promises of a Multicultural Future"
Moore, Mary Elizabeth, Boyung Lee, Katherine Turpin, Ralph Casas, Lynn Bridgers and Veronica Miles
Religious Education 99, no. 3 (2004): 287-315
2004
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"Reshaping Religious and Theological Education in the 90's: Toward a Critical Pluralism"
Johnson, Susanne
Religious Education 88, no. 3 (1993): 335-349
1993
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"Social Class and Student Learning"
Rhem, James
The National Teaching and Learning Forum 7, no. 5 (1998): 1-4
1998
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"Talking about Race, Learning about Racism: The Application of Racial Identity Development Theory in the Classroom"
Tatum, Beverly Daniel
Harvard Educational Review 62, no. 1 (1992): 1-24
1992
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"Teaching Authority in Cultural Perspective"
Foster, Charles R.
Quarterly Review (Fall 1992): 27-38
1992
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"Teaching in the Global Village: Notes Towards a Religious Studies Rhetoric"
Connor, Kimberley Rae
Teaching Theology and Religion 6, no. 1 (2003): 18-23
2003
The author describes her participation in a religious studies teaching workshop where she was asked to think creatively about the art of teaching, what implications result from changes in the field, and the relationship of religious studies to other fields. General conclusions endorse pedagogies that are dialogic, participatory, and experiential and invite possibilities provided by changes in the field that encourage courses that are more inclusive...
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"Testing the Limits of Tolerance in a Course on Religion and Sexual Diversity"
Smith, Theresa S.
College Teaching 47, no. 2 (1999): 55
1999
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"The Campaign Against Political Correctness: What's Really at Stake?"
Scott, Joan Wallach
Change Nov/Dec (1991): 30-43
1991
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"The Miseducation of the Negro Revisited: African American Racial Identity, Historically Black Institutions, and Historically White Institutions"
Marks, Bryant T.
in Brothers of the Academy: Up and Coming Black Scholars Earning Our Way in Higher Education (Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2000), 53-69
2000
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"The Predicament of Nepantla: Chicana/o Religions into the 21st Century"
Busto, Rudy
Perspectivas: Hispanic Theological Institute Occasional Papers Series 1 (Fall 1998): 7-21
1998
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"The Struggle to Define and Reinvent Whiteness: A Pedagogical Analysis"
Kincheloe, Joe L.
College Literature 26, no. 3 (1999): 162-195
1999
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"Theological Education and Scholarship as Struggle: The Life of Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the Profession"
Segovia, Fernando F.
Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology 2, no. 2 (1994): 2-25
1994
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"Theological Education by Conversation: Particularity and Pluralism"
Moore, Mary Elizabeth Mullino
Theological Education 33, no. 1 (1996): 31-47
1996
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"Walking On Eggs: Mastering the Dreaded Diversity Discussion"
Frederick, Peter J.
College Teaching 43, no. 3 (1995): 83-92
1995
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"What A Course Will Look Like After Multicultural Change"
Kitano, Margie K.
in Multicultural course transformation in higher education: A broader truth (Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1997), 18-34
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"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" And Other Conversations About Race
Tatum, Beverly Daniel
Basic Books, New York, NY
1997
From the Publisher
In 'Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?' And Other Conversations About Race, Dr. Tatum provides us with a new way of thinking and talking about race through the lens of racial identity. She explains that all of us have a racial identity and must strive to affirm it. For people of color, the development of a constructive racial identity requires being able to recognize and reject the bombardment of negative...
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"Why Doesn't This Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy"
Ellsworth, Elizabeth
Harvard Educational Review 59, no. 3 (1989): 297-324
1989
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147 Practical Tips for Teaching Diversity
Timpson, William M., Raymond Yang, Evelinn Borrayo, and Silvia Sara Canetto
Atwood Publishing, Madison, WI
2005
From the Publisher
Diversity is vitally important to today's classroom, but many college teachers remain uncertain as to how to handle this sensitive subject. Compiled from the real-life experiences of over a dozen professors and experts, 147 Practical Tips for Teaching Diversity tackles this question head on. Taking you from the classroom to the committee meeting to the the community at large, this book offers hands-on advice for improving diversity...
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A Many Colored Kingdom: Multicultural Dynamics for Spiritual Formation
Conde-Frazier, Elizabeth, S. Steve Kang , Gary A. Parrett
Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, MI
2004
From the Publisher
A Many Colored Kingdom explores Christian formation and teaching in the church, with a particular focus on intercultural and interethnic relationships.
Well qualified to speak on issues of diversity, the authors describe relevant aspects of their own personal journeys, presented in compelling narrative form. They go on to identify key issues emerging from their Scripture studies and teaching experiences. A final chapter...
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Aging Education: Teaching and Practice Strategies
Langer, Nieli and Terry Tirrito, Editors
University Press of America, Lanham, MD
2004
From the Publisher
Aging Education provides educators in aging studies with a unique text that responds to the paucity of instructional strategies and teaching materials. By developing and explaining a multidisciplinary approach to working with older adults in areas related to health, education, ethics, law, cultural competency for a multicultural population, translating social policy into practice, spirituality, and human services, the editors...
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Approaches to Teaching Non-Native English Speakers Across the Curriculum
Sigsbee, David L., Bruce Speck and Bruce Maylath, editors
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1997
From the Publisher
This volume of New Directions for Teaching and Learning makes the knowledge and skills of academic specialists available to subject-area faculty who deal with the writing and oral communication styles of non-native users of English in their classrooms. The chapters offer information and much-needed advice in nontechnical language about ways to help these students improve their writing and speaking skills in content-area courses....
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Becoming Multicultural: Personal and Social Construction through Critical Teaching
Ford, Terry
Falmer Press, New York, NY
1999
From the Publisher
This book argues that becoming multicultural is a process of recursive cycles that must involve confrontational dialogue for change. Multicultural education texts often describe multiculturalism as a process where a person develops competencies of perceiving, evaluating, believing, and doing in multiple ways. However, the dynamic, fluid and changing qualities central to the process of interpersonal interaction often results...
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Beyond Affirmative Action: Reframing the Context of Higher Education
Ibarra, Robert A.
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI
2001
From the Publisher
A century ago, universities were primarily in the business of molding upper-class young men for the professions. The world has changed, and universities have been forced to keep pace by experimenting with affirmative action, curriculum overhauls, part-time degree programs, and the like. But at the core of the modern university establishment is an ingrained academic culture that has operated in the same ways for centuries, contends...
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Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
Collins, Patricia Hill
Routledge, New York, NY
2004
From the Publisher
In Black Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread a new brand of racism around the world today. In the tradition of her award-winning book, Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins now turns her critical eye to race, gender, and sexuality in relation to black men and women.
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Black Teachers On Teaching
Foster, Michele
New Press, New York, NY
1997
From the Publisher
Black Teachers on Teaching is a riveting and honest portrait of the politics and philosophies of the education of black children over the last fifty years. Foster, a leading expert on black educators and the history of black education, has interviewed pioneering teachers from across the country. In presenting their experiences, black teachers go on the record about mixed-race classrooms, the losses and gains accompanying desegregation,...
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Building Bridges for Women of Color in Higher Education: A Practical Guide for Success
Battle, Conchita and Chrontrese M. Doswell, editors
University Press of America, Lanham, MD
2004
From the Publisher
Building Bridges for Women of Color in Higher Education is designed to create a forum for synthesizing collective voices from women of color in academia. This book will serve as a professional development tool for academicians, both embarking upon and maintaining careers in higher education.
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Classroom in Conflict: Teaching Controversial Subjects in a Diverse Society
Williams, John A.
State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
1994
From the Publisher
This book transcends recent debates about political correctness to address the underlying problems of teaching controversial subjects in the college and university history classroom. The author criticizes both sides of the debate, rejecting, on the one hand, calls for a uniform, chronological history curriculum and, on the other hand, claims that only ethnic or racial "insiders" are qualified to teach about their communities....
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Communities of Difference: Culture, Language, Technology
Trifonas, Peter P.
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY
2005
From the Publisher
Communities of Difference looks at the implications of educational practices in communities that are differentiated by issues of language, culture, and technology. Trifonas and contributors argue that a "community" is at once a gathering of like-minded individuals in solidarity of purpose and conviction, and also a gathering that excludes others. The chapters in this collection reveal this tension between theory and practice...
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Confronting Diversity Issues on Campus
Bowser, Benjamin, Gale Auletta, Terry Jones
Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA
1993
From the Publisher
Controversies about affirmative action hires, admission policies, intercultural relations in the classroom, the role of ethnic studies departments, and changes in course curriculum all seem to swirl around the changing ethnic composition of the campus. How do we all get along? Tackling this question are authors Bowser, Auletta, and Jones, who suggest some practical strategies for dealing with questions of racism, diversity,...
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Connecting to Learn: Educational and Assistive Technology for People with Disabilities
Scherer, Marcia J.
American Psychological Association, Washington, DC
2004
From the Publisher
Connecting to Learn: Educational and Assistive Technology for People With Disabilities presents a comprehensive approach to matching the right assistive technology with students with disabilities, especially visual and auditory disabilities. Dr. Scherer explores the way disabilities, especially those involving the senses, can lead to isolation and a lack of "connectedness," and how this leads to educational difficulties. She...
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Critical Minds and Discerning Hearts: A Spirituality of Multicultural Teaching
Talvacchia, Kathleen
Chalice Press, St. Louis, MO
2003
From the Publisher
This book goes beyond the "how-to's" of teaching to offer a pedagogy founded in spirituality, providing teachers with the elements necessary to create a truly multicultural classroom.
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Crossing the Digital Divide: Race, Writing, and Technology in the Classroom
Monrie, Barbara
Teachers College Press, New York, NY
2004
From the Publisher
As poor, non-white communities on "the other side" of the digital divide become immersed in electronic media, how can we evaluate their experiences to transform the teaching of writing and literature and improve student learning? This important book offers a balanced view of instructional technology and critical multiculturalism as experienced in today s public schools. With valuable insights to help English educators at all...
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Degrees of Choice: Social Class, Race and Gender in Higher Education
Reay, Diane, Miriam E. David, and Stephen Ball
Trentham Books, Sterling, VA
2005
From the Publisher
"Degrees of Choice provides a sophisticated account of the overlapping effects of social class, ethnicity and gender in the process of choosing which university to attend. The shift from an elite to a mass system has been accompanied by much political rhetoric about widening access, achievement-for-all and meritocratic equalisation." This book gives a full and different picture, drawing on qualitative and quantitative data to...
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Dialogues for Diversity: Community and Ethnicity on Campus
Kramer, Martin and Stephen Weiner
Oryx Press, Phoenix, AZ
1994
From the Publisher
Provides organized materials intended to help groups of individuals on campus toward focused discussions of the role of ethnic diversity in the daily life of colleges and universities. The (welcome) aim is to help such groups find their own common ground, not to tell them what that common ground should be. Produced by the Project on Campus Community and Diversity of the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities...
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Diversifying the Faculty: A Guidebook for Search Committees
Turner, Caroline Sotello Viernes
Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington, D.C.
2002
From the Publisher
This monograph suggests ways in which an institution can diversify its faculty and facilitate the work of the search committee before a candidate ever reaches the interview stage. It outlines a step-by-step process to improve the likelihood of a successful search, and it recommends items to consider after a hire is confirmed to ensure that the new faculty member will be more likely to stay. The sections are: (1) Before the Search...
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Diversity and Motivation: Culturally Responsive Teaching
Wlodkowski, Raymond J. and Margery B. Ginsberg
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1995
From the Publisher
This book provides teachers and trainers with sensitive and practical help in working effectively with groups of culturally diverse learners. Raymond J. Wlodkowski and Margery B. Ginsberg combine their respective expertise in motivation and multiculturalism to go beyond the usual rhetoric on promoting diversity, offering real-world guidance and suggestions for successful teaching in today's changing classroom environment. Using...
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Diversity Challenged: Evidence on the Impact of Affirmative Action
Orfield, Gary, ed.
Harvard Education Pub. Group, Cambridge, MA
2001
From the Publisher
In the courts and in referenda campaigns, affirmative action in college admissions is under full-scale attack. Though it was designed to help resolve a variety of serious racial problems, affirmative action's survival may turn on just one question--whether or not the educational value of diversity is sufficiently compelling to justify consideration of race as a factor in deciding whom to admit to colleges and universities. Diversity...
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Educating Citizens in a Multicultural Society
Banks, James A.
Teachers College Press, New York, NY
1997
From the Publisher
The thousands of immigrants who enter the United States each year, the increasing number of children who speak a first language other than English in the schools, and the ever-widening gap between rich and poor are some of the realities that educators face today. Given these conditions, it is increasingly difficult to prepare students for democratic citizenship. Bringing together years of work as an expert on multicultural education,...
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Educating Culturally Responsive Teachers
Villegas, Ana Maria and Tamara Lucas
State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
2002
From the Publisher
Offering a conceptual framework and practical strategies for teacher preparation in schools with increasingly diverse racial and ethnic student populations, this book presents a coherent approach to educating culturally responsive teachers. The authors focus on the importance of recruiting and preparing a diverse teaching force, as they propose a vision for restructuring the teacher education curriculum, reconceiving the pedagogy...
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Embracing Disability in Teaching Religion
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Faculty Diversity: Problems and Solutions
Moody, JoAnn
RoutledgeFalmer, New York, NY
2004
From the Publisher
JoAnn Moody shows majority campuses, faculty, and administrators how to dismantle the high barriers that block women and especially minorities from entry and advancement in the professoriate. Good practices for improving recruitment, evaluation, mentorship, and retention are offered.
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Faculty of Color in Academe: Bittersweet Success
Turner, Caroline Sotello Viernes and Samuel L.Myers, Jr.
Allyn & Bacon, Boston, MA
2000
From the Publisher
Key Benefits: Faculty of Color in Academe focuses on inequities based on racial and ethnic differences within the professional workplace in higher education. This book draws on a comprehensive study of African American, Asian, Pacific American, American Indian, and Latino faculty in eight mid-western states. By using both narrative and statistical data, this book provides an in-depth view of the issues surrounding the successful...
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Getting Ready for Benjamin: Preparing Teachers for Sexual Diversity in the Classroom
Kissen, Rita ed.
Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers, Lanham, MD
2002
From the Publisher
This text grew out of a symposium sponsored by the Lesbian and Gay Studies Special Interest Group at the American Educational Research Association conference in 1999, titled "Over the Rainbow and Under the Multicultural Umbrella." Twenty-eight educational scholars, theorists, and practitioners most from the U.S. contribute 19 chapters on the preparation of future teachers in such issues as the interrelationships of prejudice,...
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Graduate Theological Education and the Human Experience of Disability
Anderson, Robert C., editor
Haworth Press, Binghampton, NY
2003
From the Publisher
Graduate Theological Education and the Human Experience of Disability examines graduate schools of theology and their limited familiarity with the study of disability -- and the presence of people with disabilities in particular -- on their campuses. Dubbed a "missing note" by one theologian, this text offers critical research and illuminates new pathways for theologia and practice in the community of faith. Reviews of previous...
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How Minority Students Experience College: Implications for Planning and Policy
Watson, Lemuel W.
Stylus, Sterling, VA
2002
From the Publisher
Have three decades of integration and multicultural initiatives in higher education delivered a better education to all students? Are majority and minority students reaping similar benefits, specifically in predominantly white colleges? Do we know what a multicultural campus should look like, and how to design one that is welcoming to all students and promotes a learning environment?
Through a unique qualitative study...
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I've Got a Story to Tell: Identity and Place in the Academy
Jackson, Sandra, and Jose Solis Jordan, editors
Peter Lang, New York, NY
1999
From the Publisher
Conventional wisdom has it that education is the great equalizer in a society. Notwithstanding, access to higher education and terminal degrees have not proven synonymous with the establishment of legitimacy for many voices. Academics and scholars of color continue to confront barriers constituent of the racialized, gendered, and class(ed) baggage characterizing dominant social relations. In I've Got a Story to Tell different...
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Making a Difference: University Students of Color Speak Out
Lesage, Julia, Abby L. Ferber, Debbie Storrs, Donna Wong
Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers, Lanham, MD
2002
From the Publisher
In Making a Difference, students of color relate their first-hand experiences with educational systems and campus living conditions. Their narratives provide an insider perspective useful to anyone working on diversity issues who is trying to improve institutional culture and policy. The contextualizing essays following the student narratives are written by academics and student affairs professionals who draw links between issues...
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Multicultural Course Transformation in Higher Education: A Broader Truth
Morey, Ann Intili and Margie K. Kitano
Allyn & Bacon, Boston, MA
1997
From the Publisher
Responding to increasing enrollments of students of color, students with disabilities, students whose first language is not English, and students entering college in their mid-twenties or later, many colleges and universities are including multicultural issues in their course and curriculum preparation. Faculty members and administrators involved in multicultural initiatives will find here a suggested framework for making course...
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Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives
Banks, James A. and Cherry A. Mcgee Banks, editors
Allyn & Bacon, Boston, MA
1989
From the Publisher
This handy reference is designed to help present and future educators acquire the concepts, paradigms, and explanations needed to become effective practitioners in culturally, racially, and language diverse classrooms and schools. The Fourth Edition reflects current and emerging research, concepts, and debates about the education of students from both genders and from different cultural, racial, ethnic, and language groups.
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Multicultural Teaching in the University
Schoem, David et al, editors
Praeger, Westport, CT
1993
From the Publisher
This important book includes more than twenty essays by faculty from different disciplines, each articulating the multiple dimensions and components of multicultural teaching. Teachers discuss their own teaching methods and classes in terms of course content, process and discourse, and diversity among faculty and students in the classroom. This volume integrates new scholarship that reflects a more expansive notion of knowledge,...
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Outbursts in Academe: Multiculturalism and Other Sources of Conflict
Dixon, Kathleen, editor
Boynton/Cook Publishers, Portsmouth, NH
1998
From the Publisher
Outbursts in Academe advances a new theoretical notion in the composition classroom: the concept of "outburst" as a single, researchable moment in the lives of teachers and students.
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Perspectivas: Occasional papers Fall 2000
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Perspectivas: Occasional Papers Summer 2001
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Perspectivas: Occasional Papers Winter 1999
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Perspectivas: Occasional Papers, Fall 2003
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Educations and Their Purposes: A Conversation among Cultures
Ames, Roger T., and Peter D. Hershock, eds.
University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu
2008
From the Publisher
Chapters included in Part One, Education, Relationality, and Diversity, examine the growing intellectual awareness of a pervasive interdependence amid diversity in all aspects of the human experience brought on by the unrelenting processes of globalization. One of the most distinguished voices in the philosophy of emotions offers a sustained reflection in the opening chapter to Part Two, Educating Emotions: The Phenomenology...
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Promoting Diversity in College Classrooms:Innovative Responses for the Curriculum, Faculty and Institutions
From the Publisher
This journal presents a collection a essays that offer several new perspectives on teaching practice; give descriptive and narrative accounts of curricular and teaching innovations; and discusses a range of shared learnings obtained from public university, community college, and private college multicultural change processes. Chapters and their authors are as follows: (1) "Dynamics of Diversity in the Teaching-Learning Process:...
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Providing Culturally Relevant Adult Education: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century
Guy, Talmadge C., editor
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1999
From the Publisher
This volume of New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education offers an examination of theoretical and practical issues in providing adult education services to socially, politically, and culturally marginalized groups in the United States, with a particular focus on learner culture from the perspective of authors who share that cultural background." "Culturally relevant adult education focuses on popular culture, that is,...
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Race and Higher Education: Rethinking Pedagogy in Diverse College Classrooms
Howell, Annie and Frank Tuitt, Editors
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
2003
From the Publisher
U.S. colleges and universities are witnessing increased diversity in their student bodies, yet many faculty members continue to use outdated modes of instruction, creating potentially harmful learning environments. This timely book addresses this problem, guiding educators toward a better understanding of how changes in the student population require new approaches to classroom learning.
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Race in the College Classroom: Pedagogy and Politics
TuSmith, Bonnie and Maureen T. Reddy, editors
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ
2002
From the Publisher
Did affirmative action programs solve the problem of race on American college campuses, as several recent books would have us believe? If so, why does talking about race in anything more than a superficial way make so many students uncomfortable? Written by college instructors from many disciplines, this volume of essays takes a bold first step toward a nationwide conversation. Each of the twenty-nine contributors addresses...
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Race Matters
West, Cornel
Beacon Press, Boston, MA
1993
From the Publisher
First published in 1993 on the one-year anniversary of the L.A. riots, Race Matters has since become an American classic. Beacon Press is proud to present this hardcover edition with a new introduction by Cornel West. The issues that it addresses are as controversial and urgent as before, and West's insights remain fresh, exciting, and timely. Now more than ever, Race Matters is a book for all Americans one that will help us...
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Race, Class, and Gender in the United States
Rothenberg, Paula S.
Worth Publishers, New York, NY
2001
From the Publisher
Like its preceding editions, this fourth edition of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study undertakes a study of race, gender, and sexuality within the context of class. With 28 new readings and 5 revised readings, this edition also contains an entirely new section entitled "'Us' and 'Them': Becoming an American." This section examines the ways in which the concept of "citizen" has been constructed...
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Reading the Bible from the Margins
De La Torre, Miguel A.
Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY
2002
From the Publisher
This introduction to reading and understanding the Bible focuses on perspectives that are often ignored. Here, emphasis is placed on how issues involving race, class, and gender influence our understanding of the Bible. The author shows how "standard" readings of the Bible are not always acceptable to people or groups on the "margins." The poor and those who are targets of discrimination because of their ethnic group or gender...
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Reconstructing the Sacred Tower: Challenge and Promise of Latino/a Theological Education
Davis, Kenneth, OFM and Edwin I. Hernandez
University of Scranton Press, Scranton, PA
2003
From the Publisher
The Hispanic community in the United States is growing by leaps and bounds. The most important institution in Hispanic barrios is the church. Government programs come and go, but the churches remain. So what could be more important than good Hispanic theological leadership? This book is unblinking about the problems involved. Lacking are financial and intellectual resources in otherwise excellent seminaries and other educational...
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Resource Notebook on Culturally Relevant and Responsive Learning Styles/Pedagogy
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Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom
Berman, Jeffrey
University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA
2001
From the Publisher
This is the final volume in a trilogy of works that examine the impact of writing and reading about traumatic subjects. "Diaries to an English Professor" (1994) explores the ways in which undergraduate students use psychoanalytic diaries to probe conflicted issues in their lives. "Surviving Literary Suicide" (1999) investigates how graduate students respond to suicidal literature-novels and poems that portray and sometimes glorify...
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Special Theme Issue: Education and Race
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Students With Disabilities: Building a Partnership in Equal Access to Learning
Conrardy, Joellen
Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, IN
1998
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Talking Race in the Classroom
Bolgatz, Jane
Teachers College Press, New York, NY
2005
From the Publisher
This lively book will help new and veteran teachers develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to successfully address racial controversies in their classrooms. The author first explains what race and racism mean and why we need to talk about these topics in schools. Then, based on an in-depth study of a high school classroom, she shows what happens when teachers and students talked about race and racism in a history...
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Teacher Thinking in Cultural Contexts
Rios, Francisco A., editor
State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
1996
From the Publisher
Francisco Rio's book sheds light on current scholarship around teacher thinking in cultural contexts and identifies promising practices that take into account context specific influences.
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Teaching American Students: A Guide for International Faculty and Teaching Assistants
Sarkisian, Ellen
Harvard, Derok Bok Center, Cambridge, MA
1997
From the Publisher
Many faculty and graduate students from other countries expect language difficulties when they teach, but are unprepared for other surprises: different cultures make different assumptions about the academic background of college students, how students learn, the appropriate roles of teachers and students, and even the fundamental purpose of a college education.
The third edition of Teaching American Students explains...
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Teaching Asian America: Diversity and the Problem of Community
Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo, editor
Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers, Lanham, MD
1998
From the Publisher
This innovative volume offers the first sustained examination of the myriad ways Asian American Studies is taught at the university level. Through this lens, this volume illuminates key debates in U.S. society about pedagogy, multiculturalism, diversity, racial and ethnic identities, and communities formed on these bases. Asian American Studies shares critical concerns with other innovative fields that query representation,...
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Teaching Cross-Culturally: An Incarnation Model for Learning and Teaching
Lingenfelter, Judith E.
Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, MI
2003
From the Publisher
How can Christian educators teach effectively in different cultures? Here are winning principles drawn from educational theory and personal experience. How can Christian educators teach effectively within a culture not their own? In what sense is teaching part of the Great Commission? These questions are being asked more and more often in our increasingly global community. In the opening chapter of Teaching Cross-Culturally,...
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Teaching for Diversity
Border, Laura L. B., and Nancy Van Note Chism, editors
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1992
From the Publisher
In the charged atmosphere of the debate on multicultural issues, higher education professionals must take action, even in the face of incomplete information and complicated arguments and counter arguments, and are often expected to set standards when many assumptions are made in deep-rooted, taken-for-granted institutional practices. This volume of New Directions for Teaching and Learning speaks in a practical way to administrators,...
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Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook
Adams, Maurianne, Lee Anne Bell, Pat Griffin, editors
Routledge, New York, NY
1997
From the Publisher
Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice is a much needed resource that addresses the need to facilitate communication and understanding between members of diverse social groups. It provides a unified framework by which students can engage and critically analyze several forms of social oppression and discrimination.
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Teaching from a Multicultural Perspective
Roberts, Helen, Juan C. Gonzales, Olita D. Harris, Delores J. Huff, Ann M. Johns, Ray Lou, Otis L. Scott
Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA
1994
From the Publisher
The authors of this volume, all experienced teachers and administrators, outline how to teach in a multicultural environment. They suggest classroom strategies, curriculum reforms and assessment tools that work for all students.
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Teaching Inclusively: Resources for Course, Department & Institutional Change in Higher Education
Ouellett, Mathew L., editor
New Forums Press, Stillwater, OK
2005
From the Publisher
Teaching Inclusively brings together a broad array of current "best practices" in the design, implementation, and assessment of multicultural change initiatives on college and university campuses. Readers will find that this volume advocates for more transparent connections between change initiatives at individual, departmental, and college-wide levels by highlighting the ways in which such practices and change goals can relate...
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Teaching the Bible: The Discourses and Politics of Biblical Pedagogy
Segovia, Fernando F. and Mary Ann Tolbert, editors
Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY
1998
From the Publisher
This volume gathers together papers from a broad variety of voices in biblical criticism and theological studies. The papers are divided into four major sections in keeping with their major concerns and aims: Biblical interpretation and theological education, social location and Biblical pedagogy in the US, social location and Biblical pedagogy in global perspective, and Biblical interpretation.
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Teaching What You're Not: Identity Politics in Higher Education
Mayberry, Katherine J., editor
New York University Press, New York, NY
1996
From the Publisher
There was a time not long ago when the only complaints students levied against professors were that they assigned too much work or that their lectures were delivered in a soporific monotone. Today, radical changes in the composition of the university, the ongoing revision of canons and curricula, and the politicization of knowledge have profoundly altered the landscape, introducing an identity-based definition of credibility...
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The African American Student's Guide to Surviving Graduate School
Isaac, Alicia
Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA
1998
From the Publisher
What does it take to get into and through graduate school? What special challenges, opportunities, and issues face an African American graduate student? The African American Student's Guide to Surviving Graduate School offers a practical roadmap to help African American students get the most out of their graduate school experience. The book covers a number of issues, including creating a program of study, financial aid, and...
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The Canon Debate, Knowledge Construction, and Multicultural Education
Banks, James A.
Educational Researcher 22, no. 5 (1993): 4-14
1993
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The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach About Diversity
Corts, Carlos E.
Teachers College Press, New York, NY
2000
From the Publisher
Carlos Corts has been a first-hand observer and participant in the growth of multiculturalism and multicultural education from their birth in the social movements of the 1960s to the present day. In this unique collection of essays about diversity, society, and education, he provides readers with valuable insights, both from his own life story and from some of the most thought-provoking articles he has written over the past...
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The Feminization of Racism: Promoting World Peace in America
Blea, Irene I.
Praeger, Westport, CT
2003
From the Publisher
Blea provides a synthesis of the women's history of Native Americans, Asians, African Americans, and Latinas, and she examines the similarities and differences among these women. From each she extracts suggestions on ways to promote racial and ethnic tolerance.
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The Globalization of Theological Education
Evans, Alice Frazer, Robert A. Evans, and David A. Roozen, editors
Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY
1993
From the Publisher
These probing essays, factual case studies and critical commentaries by thirty-nine prominent scholars, educators, seminary administrators and church executives together address the emerging issues of the globalization of theological education. What does it mean to minister in a world of both interdependence and polarization? How can leaders be prepared to build up a church able and willing to respond to the challenge of...
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The Historical Reconstruction of Knowledge about Race: Implications for Transformative Teaching
Banks, James A.
Educational Researcher 24, no. 2 (1995): 15-25
1995
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The Majority in the Minority: Expanding the Representation of Latina/o Faculty, Administrators and Students in Higher Education
Castellanos, Jeanett and Lee Jones, editors
Stylus, Sterling, VA
2003
From the Publisher
Latinas/os are the largest ethnic minority group in the U.S. They are propelling minority communities to majority status in states as disparate as California, Florida, New Jersey, New York and Texas.
Their growth in the population at large is not reflected in higher education. In fact Latinos are the least represented population in our colleges and universities, whether as administrators, faculty or students; and as...
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The Multicultural Campus: Strategies for Transforming Higher Education
Valverde, Leonard A. and Louis A. Castenell Jr.
AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA
1998
From the Publisher
The Multicultural Campus brings together administrators, faculty, and students to offer strategies that will alter the academic environment of the future. Hispanic, African, and Asian American educational leaders examine the obstacles they have faced, as minorities, climbing up the predominantly white career ladder in American universities. Firsthand accounts show how change on governance, executive, faculty, and curricula levels...
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The Politics of Liberal Education
Gless, Darryl J. and Barbara Hernstein Smith, editors
Duke University Press, Durham, NC
1992
From the Publisher
Controversy over what role "the great books" should play in college curricula and questions about who defines "the literary canon" are at the forefront of debates in higher education. This study offers a defence of educational reform in response to attacks by academic traditionalists. The contributors share the belief that American schools, colleges and universities can do a far better job of educating the nation's increasingly...
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The Promise and Challenge of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Theological Education
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The Quality and Quantity of Contact: African Americans and Whites on College Campuses
Moore, Robert M. III, Editor
University Press of America, Lanham, MD
2002
From the Publisher
The authors present to the reader, meaningfully and responsibly, the quality and quantity of contact between African Americans and whites on predominantly white campuses across our nation.
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The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb: A Spirituality for Leadership in a Multicultural Community
Law, Eric H.F.
Chalice Press, St. Louis, MO
1993
From the Publisher
A multicultural conference has convened. Everything is in place, and the participants arrive brimming with goodwill and even better intentions. Surely this time...! But, no. Halfway through the meetings, communication grinds to a halt, and people retreat to the safety of their own groups. What happened? And how can we keep it from happening again? Those are the questions this book proposes to answer.
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This Fine Place So Far From Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class
Dews, C.L. Barney and Carolyn Leste Law, editors
Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA
1995
From the Publisher
These autobiographical and analytical essays by a diverse group of professors and graduate students from working-class families reveal an academic world in which "blue-collar work is invisible." Describing conflict and frustration, the contributors expose a divisive middle-class bias in the university setting. Many talk openly about how little they understood about the hierarchy and processes of higher education, while others...
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Where We Stand: Class Matters
bell hooks
Routledge, New York, NY
2000
From the Publisher
Drawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, Where We Stand is a successful black woman's reflection - personal, straight forward, and rigorously honest - on how our dilemmas of class and race are intertwined, and how we can find ways to think beyond them.
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Women and Minority Faculty in the Academic Workplace : Recruitment, Retention, and Academic Culture
Aguirre, Adalberto, Jr.
ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report Volume 27, no. 6, George Washington Univ. Press, Washington, D.C.
2000
From the Publisher
An ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report. This report's theoretical approach,...argumentation,...and presentation provide valuable insight into one of the major issues facing higher education. The manuscript's strength [lies in the detailed descriptions of the experiences of women and minority faculty. The report will be of great value not only to decision makers on individual campuses, but also for those policy makers at the state...
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Writing in Multicultural Settings
Severino, Carol, Juan C. Guerra, and Johnnella E. Butler, eds.
Modern Language Association, New York, NY
1997
From the Publisher
The twenty essays and four responses ("cross-talks") in this volume, the fifth in the Research and Scholarship in Composition series, confront the challenges presented by the racial, ethnic, class, gender, religious, age, and physical-ability differences among today's writing students. The contributors, who teach in classrooms and writing centers at a variety of private and public institutions, discuss their immersion in students'...
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Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White
Wu, Frank H.
Basic Books, New York, NY
2002
From the Publisher
This explosive book examines the current state of civil rights in the U.S. through the unique experiences of Asian Americans. In the tradition of W.E.B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and other public intellectuals who have confronted the "color line" of the twentieth century, journalist, scholar, and activist Frank H. Wu offers a unique perspective on how changing ideas of racial identity will affect race relations in the new century.
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Diversified Theological Education: Equipping All God's People
Kinsler, Ross, ed.
William Carey International University Press, Pasadena, CA
2008
From the Publisher
The central concern of Diversified Theological Education, which includes Theological Education by Extension, is access. TEE and DTE models have made enormous progress in the urgent task of equipping all God's people for ministry. Ross Kinsler has compiled in this anthology important case studies of the diverse means of contemporary theological education.
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Latino Change Agents in Higher Education: Shaping a System that Works for All
Valverde, Leonard A., and Associates
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
2008
From the Publisher
This book offers college and university teachers a practical guide for meeting the challenges of educating the burgeoning population of Latino students. The contributors, a stellar group of experienced leaders in higher education, clearly show that the changes to higher education needed to ensure Latino student success will benefit all students.
In this book, the authors call for systemic change across the entire K-16 spectrum...
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The Sista' Network: African-American Women Faculty Successfully Negotiating the Road to Tenure
Cooper, Tuesday L.
Anker Publishing Company, Bolton, MA
2006
From the Publisher
The Sista Network" is a term used to describe the relationships between and among professional African-American women which enable them to assist one another in learning the unwritten rules and protocols of various professions. In the context of higher education, the Sista' Network can help new African-American women faculty learn the rules to the Tenure Game.
A qualitative inquiry into the lives and experiences of...
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Faculty of Color: Teaching in Predominantly White Colleges and Universities
Stanley, Christine A., ed.
Anker Publishing Company, Inc., Bolton, MA
2006
From the Publisher
Combining an overview of current research literature and 23 engaging narratives, Faculty of Color invites deeper dialogue on the experiences of faculty of color teaching in predominantly white institutions. By raising issues for commentary and investigation, the book challenges its readers to adopt effective strategies for the recruitment and retention of faculty of color in higher education.
The authors represent...
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From Oppression to Grace: Women of Color and Their Dilemmas within the Academy
Berry, Theodorea Regina and Nathalie D. Mizelle, editors
Stylus, Sterling
2006
From the Publisher
This book gives voice to the experiences of women of color - women of African, Native American, Latina, East Indian, Korean and Japanese descent - as students in pursuing terminal degrees and as faculty members navigating the Academy, grappling with the dilemmas encountered by others and themselves as they exist at the intersections of their work and identities.
Women of color are frequently relegated - on account both...
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Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
From the Publisher
In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teaching issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.
In a series of short, accessible, and enlightening essays, hooks explores of the confounding and sometimes controversial topics that teachers and students have urged her to address since the publication...
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"Educating Chinese Seminarians in North America: A Cross Cultural Understanding of Teaching and Learning"
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Promoting Diversity and Social Justice: Educating People form Privileged Groups
Goodman, Diana J.
Sage Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA
2001
From the Publisher
In order to implement effectively diversity and social justice initiatives, it is critical to involve people from dominant groups. It is dominant groups that perpetuate oppression. Can educators meet the challenge of implementing diversity and social justice in organizations and in the community?
Promoting Diversity and Social Justice gives theory, perspectives, and strategies that are useful for working with adults on...
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Teaching Defiance
Newman, Michael
Jossey-Bass: A Wiley Imprint, San Francisco, CA
2006
From the Publisher
This book is for activist adult educators who want to help people make up their own minds and take control of their own lives. At its heart this book is about choice. It examines how activist educators can help people understand that they do have options and then help those people learn how to make effective choices. It is important as a counter to the increasingly formulaic writing in the fields of organizational learning,...
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Racial Formation in the United States From the 1960's to the 1990's, Second Edition
Omi, Michael and Howard Winant
Routledge, New York
1994
From the Publisher
First published in 1986, Racial Formation in the United States is now considered a classic in the literature on race and ethnicity. This second edition builds upon and updates Omi and Winant's groundbreaking research. In addition to a preface to the new edition, the book provides a more detailed account of the theory of racial formation processes. It includes material on the historical development of race, the question of racism,...
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Confucian Tradition and Global Education
de Bary, Wm. Theodore
Columbia University Press, New York, NY
2007
From the Publisher
Drawn from a series of lectures that Wm. Theodore de Bary delivered in honor of the Chinese philosopher Tang Junyi, Confucian Tradition is a unique synthesis of essay and debate concerning the future of Chinese education and the potential political uses of Confucianism in the contemporary world.
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African American Men in College
Cuyjet, Michael J., and Associates
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2006
From the Publisher
African American Men in College is a much-needed resource that includes examples of real-world programs and activities to enhance academic success in the college environment for African American men. The examples are collected from a variety of institutions across the country.With contributions from leading practitioners and scholars in the field, African American Men in College explores the factors that promote a climate of...
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Non-Western Perspectives on Learning and Knowing
Merriam, Sharan B., and Associates
Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, FL
2007
From the Publisher
This book introduces readers to systems of knowing and learning different from our familiar Western educational tradition. As with other areas of education, the knowledge base that has developed around adult learning and education has been firmly lodged in Western values and culture. But we need only look beyond our borders as well as to our own indigenous Native Americans to find major systems of thought and beliefs embedded...
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Creating Inclusive Adult Learning Environments: Insights from Multicultural Education and Feminist Pedagogy
From the Publisher
Adult educators are increasingly faced with the task of creating and facilitating learning activities for participants from diverse backgrounds. They need to take into account the needs of both male and female learners, learners of different ethnic and racial groups, and learners from different social backgrounds in creating an inclusive adult learning environment. The developing body of literature on multicultural concerns...
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Reversing the Lens: Ethnicity, Race, Gender, and Sexuality Through Film
Xing, Jun, and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK
2003
From the Publisher
Reversing the Lens brings together noted scholars in history, anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies, and film studies to promote film as a powerful educational tool that can be used to foster cross-cultural communication with respect to race and ethnicity. Through such films as Skin Deep, Slaying the Dragon, and Mississippi Masala, contributors demonstrate why and how visual media help delineate various forms of "critical...
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Making a Real Difference with Diversity: A Guide to Institutional Change
From the Publisher
Making a Real Difference with Diversity provides readers with a step-by-step guide for implementing, evaluating, and sustaining comprehensive diversity work on campus. Drawn from a six-year diversity initiative involving twenty-eight independent California colleges and universities, the monograph offers a set of promising practices and selected quantitative and qualitative findings pertaining to efforts to enhance college access...
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Getting Culture: Incorporating Diversity Across the Curriculum
Gurung, Regan A.R., and Loreto R. Prieto, eds.
Stylus, Sterling, VA
2009
From the Publisher
How do we educate our students about cultural diversity and cultural differences, and eliminate cultural ignorance, stereotyping, and prejudice? What are the conceptual issues involved in reaching this goal? How can we integrate these perspectives in disciplinary and diversity courses, and the curriculum?
This book is a resource for answering these questions. Within the framework of current scholarship and discussion of...
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Most College Students Are Women: Implications for Teaching, Learning, and Policy
Allen, Jeanie K., Diane R. Dean, and Susan J. Bracken, eds.
Stylus, Sterling, VA
2008
From the Publisher
* Reveals continuing barriers to success for women students
* Offers remedies that will benefit all students
What are the realities behind recent press reports suggesting that women students have taken over higher education, both outnumbering males and academically outperforming them? Does women's development during college diverge from the commonly accepted model of cognitive growth? Does pedagogy in higher education...
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Black Boys Can Make It: How They Overcome the Obstacles to University in the UK and USA
Byfield, Cheron
Trentham Books, Sterling, VA
2008
From the Publisher
This book dispels the myth that Black boys are synonymous with underachievement.
It demonstrates how many progress into higher education, albeit against the odds, and offers solutions for policy and practice. There is a plethora of research focusing on the underachievement of Black boys. But little attention has been given to their positive achievement until this author's research on both sides of the Atlantic.
The...
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Ebony Towers in Higher Education: The Evolution, Mission, and Presidency of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
From the Publisher
What is the purpose of black colleges? Why do black colleges continue to exist? Are black colleges necessary?
Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are at the same time the least studied and the least understood institutions of higher education and the most maligned and the most endangered.
This unique study examines the mission of four-year HBCUs from the perspective of the campus president,...
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