Race and Higher Education: Rethinking Pedagogy in Diverse College Classrooms (Her Reprint, Band 36) - Softcover

Edited by Annie Howell and Frank Tuitt

Over the last few decades, U.S. colleges and universities have witnessed increasing diversity in their student bodies. Yet faculty members, operating on the notion that one pedagogy fits all students, continue to employ traditional modes of instruction. This adherence to outdated pedagogies has created potentially harmful learning environments for all students and particularly for students of color. Race and Higher Education addresses this persistent problem, guiding educators toward a better understanding of how changes in the student population have resulted in the need for new approaches to classroom instruction. By including voices from inside classrooms along with analyses from scholarly researchers, this volume provides college and university teachers, administrators, students, and scholars with a critical instrument for improving higher education.

This timely volume presents indispensable perspectives on changes we need to introduce into our college and university classrooms in order to enrich those classes and enhance the academic achievement of minority students.Race and Higher Education is a must read for all teachers, administrators, and students who have a stake in the ever-greater diversity of our colleges and universities. Dean Whitla, Director, National Campus Diversity Project, Harvard Graduate School of Education

This is an informed, balanced, carefully researched series of essays on a timely and important topic. It offers clear insights into the benefits and problems of racial diversity in higher education. John B. Williams, College of Education, University of Maryland

Contributors include Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Eric L. Dey, Paulo Freire, Gerald Gurin, Annie Howell, Sylvia Hurtado, Kevin K. Kumashiro, Donaldo P. Macedo, Frances A. Maher, Sondra Perl, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault, Frank Tuitt, Barbara Vacarr, Kathleen Weiler

Edited by Annie Howell and Frank Tuitt