Description
- Based on best practices from the Cultural Literacy Curriculum Institute at Lesley University.
- Includes voices and reflections from faculty and administrators who are committed to culturally responsive teaching.
- Chapters help readers enhance their skills for responding effectively to racial, cultural, and social difference in their personal and professional contexts.
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface: An Invitation for Dialogue
Chapter 1. Introduction: Cultural Literacy, Cultural Humility, and Reflection
Section I. Knowing Ourselves
Chapter 2. Who I Am Is How I Teach
Sharlene Voogd Cochrane
Chapter 3. Reflections on Identity and Privilege
Julie A. Stanwood
Chapter 4. Embracing My Social Class Transition: A Journey to More Effective Teaching
Michaela Kirby
Section II. Pedagogy and the Other
Chapter 5. Learning as the Other: A Lesson in Human Fragility
Meenakshi Chhabra
Chapter 6. Becoming an Ally to Indigenous People
Coleen O窶僂onnell
Chapter 7. Seizing Teachable Moments: An African American Professor's Reflections of Conversations on Race and Culture With White Students
M. Francine Jennings
Section III. Practice in Community
Chapter 8. Culturally Responsive Professional Practices in the College Classroom and Professional Sites
Marjorie A. Jones
Chapter 9. Adult Learners: Where I窶冦 From and Why It Matters
Deborah D. Wright
Chapter 10. Working With the Self, Walking With Another
Deborah Spragg
Chapter 11. Looking In and Acting Out: A Personal Search for Inclusive Pedagogical Practice
Janet Sauer
Reflective Exercises
I. Where Are You From?
II. Steppingstones in Responding to Difference
III. Exploring Power in Leadership
Notes for Engaging Discussions
Contributor Biographies
