Achieving against the Odds: How Academics Become Teachers of Diverse Students

Abstract

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