Achieving against the odds : how academics become teachers of diverse students / edited by Esther Kingston-Mann and Tim Sieber. - xiii, 222 pages ; 24 cm. - The new academy. . - New academy. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Introduction: Achieving Against the Odds / Coming Out and Leading Out: Pedagogy Beyond the Closet / Three Steps Forward, One Step Back: Dilemmas of Upward Mobility / Learning to Listen to Students and Oneself / Language and Cultural Capital: Reflections of a "Junior" Professor / Racial Problems in Society and the Classroom / Teaching (as) Composing / Teaching, Tenure, and Institutional Transformation: Reflections on Race, Culture, and Resilience at an Urban Public University / Teaching American Dreams/American Realities: Students' Lives and Faculty Agendas / Teaching, Learning, and Judging: Some Reflections on the University and Political Legitimacy / Gender Trouble in the Gender Course: Managing and Mismanaging Conflict in the Classroom / Odd Man Out / Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich -- Esther Kingston-Mann and Tim Sieber -- Kathleen M. Sands -- Esther Kingston-Mann -- Tim Sieber -- Reyes Coll-Tellechea -- Castellano B. Turner -- Vivian Zamel -- Peter Nien-chu Kiang -- Lois Rudnick -- Winston E. Langley -- Estelle Disch -- Pancho Savery. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

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University of Massachusetts at Boston


Minority college students--Massachusetts--Boston--Case studies
Multicultural education--Massachusetts--Boston--Case studies
College environment--Massachusetts--Boston
Cultural pluralism.

LC3727. / A34 2001

378.19829