Full Description
It is critical for professors to be able to teach students from a diversity of backgrounds and experiences to achieve success. This book provides an essential insight into teaching cultural competence in colleges and universities across the United States. Covering the experiences and challenges of instructors across disciplines, the chapters focus on the research, practices, narratives, and reflections related to preparing students to be culturally competent. Intended to address how to challenge systems that give power to only majority or privileged cultures, the purpose of this edited collection is to provide a vital resource through which readers can be equipped with the necessary knowledge related to teaching cultural competence. It provides a reference for instructors, researchers, and other stakeholders who are looking for material and strategies that will assist them in preparing students to become culturally competent.
Contents
Part 1. The Importance of Cultural Competence Chapter 1. The Importance of Developing Cultural Competence:Tiffany Puckett
Chapter 2. Language and Cultural Competence: Natalie Mullen
Chapter 3. Bridging the Ivory Tower: Velma L. Cobb
Chapter 4. Cultural Humility: Candice Dowd Barnes and Chayla Rutledge Slaton
Part 2. Research Related to Cultural Competence
Chapter 5. Transforming Curriculum, Exploring Identity, and Cultivating Culturally Responsive Educators: Cynthia Zwicky and Tonya Walls
Chapter 6. Assessing Multicultural Competence in Student Affairs and Other Higher Education Professionals Programming: Gianina R. Baker
Chapter 7. Faculty and Staff Perspectives on Internationalization and Intercultural Competence at a State Comprehensive University SCU: Jermain Griffin
Chapter 8. Educators as the Gatekeepers: Deneca Winfrey Avant, Doris Houston and LaTasha Louise Nesbitt
Part 3. Lesson Learned - Teaching Cultural Competence
Chapter 9, Cultivating cultural competence through cultural engagement: Sophia L. Ángeles, Lucas Cone, Sarah Jean Johnson, and Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
Chapter 10. Using Classroom Composition in Delivering Cultural Competence Education; Norissa Williams
Chapter 11. Developing Cultural Competence in Healthcare Professional: Melissa Gomez and Linda Darnell
Part 4. The Future -Teaching Cultural Competence
Chapter 12. Raising Racial Awareness: Christina B. Chin and Erica Morales
Chapter 13. Toward a Pedagogy of Cultural Self-Awareness in the First-Year Law School Classroom: Mikah K. Thompson
Chapter 14. Teaching Cultural Competence Through the Lens of Restorative Justice: Kimberly A. Nelson and Joshua A. Nelson
Chapter 15. Using Technology to Teach Cultural Competence: Tai A. Collins, Kamontà Heidelburg, and Meagan N. Scott
Chapter 16. On Teaching and Learning: Runchana Pam Barger
