Mark A Chesler

Faculty Identities and the Challenge of Diversity: Reflections on Teaching in Higher Education Mark A Chesler 1st edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Preface Why? -- Part I. Background and Contexts -- Chapter 1. The State of Research with Faculty Identities in Higher Educational Classrooms and Institutional Contexts / Mark A. Chesler -- Chapter 2. Issues of Research Design and Reflexivity / Penny A. Pasque, Mark A. Chester, Alford A. Young Jr. -- Chapter 3. A Schematic for Analyzing Conflict in the University Classroom / Alford A. Young Jr. -- Part II. Difference and Diversity in Classroom Interactions -- Chapter 4. How Race and Gender Shape Perceived Challenges to Classroom Authority and Expertise / Alford A. Young Jr., Megan Furhman, Mark A. Chesler -- Chapter 5. Identity, Power, and Conflict Pedagogical Strategies for Successful Classroom Peer Dynamics / Kristie A. Ford, Kelly Maxwell -- Chapter 6. Responding to Hot Button Issues: Pedagogical Approaches to Racial Conflict in the Classroom / Penny A. Pasque, Jessica Charbeneav, Mark A. Chesler, Corissa Carlson -- Part III. Examinations of the Role of Identity -- Chapter 7. Racial Practices in the Classroom: White Faculty's Pedagogical Enactments That Reproduce and/or Transform White Dominance / Jessica Charbeneau, Mark A. Chesler -- Chapter 8. Race, Gender, and Bodily (Mis) Recognitions: Women of Color Faculty Experiences with White Students / Kristie A. Ford -- Chapter 9. Putting Their Bodies Off the Line; The Response of Men Faculty of Color to Classroom-Based Conflict / Alford A. Young Jr. -- Part IV. Larger Contexts ...and Change -- Chapter 10. Why Don't You Get Somebody New to Do It?: Race, Gender, and Identity Taxation in the Academy / Tiffany Joseph, Laura Hirshfield -- Chapter 11. Advocates for Diversity ... Or Not: Faculty Members as Change-Agents? / Ruby Beale, Mark A. Chesler, Elizabeth Ramus -- Chapter 12. Challenge, Advocacy, and Change / Mark A. Chesler, Alford A. Young Jr. -- References -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.

Contributor Bio:  Young, Alford A, Jr Alford A. Young, Jr., is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.