Transforming classroom culture
Subtitle: inclusive pedagogical practices
By: edited by Arlene Dallalfar, Esther Kingston-Mann, and R. Timothy Sieber
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780230111912
Subjects: College teaching; EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Effective teaching; EDUCATION / Inclusive Education; EDUCATION / Educational Psychology
Description: "Transforming Classroom Culture lays bare the key challenges that face today's increasingly diverse professoriate. Drawing on the experience of teachers from a wide range of universities, it reveals the rich potential for transformative teaching and learning in America's college classrooms. The book's contributors demonstrate how both parties to the learning encounter-faculty as well as students--interrogate and renegotiate their positions in shifting, dynamic systems of power that reflect wider national and global contexts. University faculty, staff, and administrators will be particularly interested in learning about the creative and collaborative strategies by which faculty surmount obstacles to effective teaching practice"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-249) and index.