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Title Achieving against the odds : how academics become teachers of diverse students / edited by Esther Kingston-Mann and Tim Sieber
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 222 pages)
Series The new academy
New academy.
Contents Introduction, Achieving against the odds / Esther Kingston-Mann and Tim Sieber -- Coming out and leading out : pedagogy beyond the closet / Kathleen M. Sands -- Three steps forward, one step back : dilemmas of upward mobility / Esther Kingston-Mann -- Learning to listen to students and oneself / Tim Sieber -- Language and cultural capital : reflections of a "junior" professor / Reyes Coll-Tellechea -- Racial problems in society and in the classroom / Castellano B. Turner -- Teaching (as) composing / Vivian Zamel -- Teaching, tenure, and institutional transformation : reflections on race, culture, and resilience at an urban public university / Peter Nien-chu Kiang -- Teaching American dreams/American realities : students' lives and faculty agendas / Lois Rudnick -- Teaching, learning, and judging : some reflections on the university and political legitimacy / Winston E. Langley -- Gender trouble in the gender course : managing and mismanaging conflict in the classroom / Estelle Disch -- Odd man out / Pancho Savery
Summary Compelling essays on non-traditional students written by non-traditional faculty
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject University of Massachusetts at Boston.
SUBJECT University of Massachusetts at Boston fast
Subject Minority college students -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Case studies
Multicultural education -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Case studies
College environment -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Cultural pluralism.
Cultural Diversity
EDUCATION -- Higher.
EDUCATION -- General.
College environment
Cultural pluralism
Minority college students
Multicultural education
Massachusetts -- Boston
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Kingston-Mann, Esther.
Sieber, R. Timothy.
ISBN 9781439901182
143990118X
9786612047107
6612047100
1282047108
9781282047105