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Author(s): Alicia Fedelina Chávez; Susan Diana Longerbeam; Joseph L. White; Alicia Fedelina Chávez

ISBN(s): 9781620363256, 1620363259

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 9.38 MB

Year: 2016

Language: English

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ISBN 13: 9781000980530
Author: Alicia Fedelina Chávez, Susan Diana Longerbeam

Teaching Across Cultural Strengths
A Guide to Balancing Integrated and Individuated Cultural Frameworks in College Teaching

Co-published with Promoting learning among college students is an elusive challenge, and all the more so when faculty and students come from differing cultures. This comprehensive guide addresses the continuing gaps in our knowledge about the role of culture in learning; and offers an empirically-based framework and model, together with practical strategies, to assist faculty in transforming college teaching for all their students through an understanding of and teaching to their strengths.Recognizing that each student learns in culturally influenced ways, and that each instructor’s teaching is equally influenced by her or his background and experiences, the authors offer an approach by which teachers can progressively learn about culture while they transform their teaching through reflection and the application of new practices that enrich student learning.The key premise of the book is that deepening student learning and increasing retention and graduation rates requires teaching from a strengths based perspective that recognizes the cultural assets that students bring to higher education, and to their own learning. Derived through research and practice, the authors present their Model of Cultural Frameworks in College Teaching and Learning that highlights eight continua towards achieving the transformation of teaching, and developing more culturally balanced and inclusive practices, over time. They present techniques – illustrated by numerous examples and narratives – for building on cultural strengths in teaching; offer tips and strategies for teaching through cultural dilemmas; and provide culturally reflective exercises. This guide is intended for all faculty, faculty developers or administrators in higher education concerned with equitable outcomes in higher education and with ensuring that all student cultural groups learn and graduate at the same rates.

Table contents:

Chapter Overview
A Call to Faculty
A Note About the Cover
A Note About the Cover
1. Balancing Cultural Strengths in Teaching
Reimagining Teaching Toward a Culturally Strengths-Based Approach
Acknowledging a World With Many Oppressions
Cultural Frameworks, Epistemologies, and Worldviews
From Monocultural to Multicultural
A Model of Cultural Frameworks in College Teaching and Learning
Integrated and Individuated Cultures in Teaching and Learning
Both~And: A Cultural Key to Learning
A Note About Inequity in Learning
Teaching Within an Epistemology of Cultural Both~And
Applying a Model of Cultural Frameworks to Teaching Practice
Taking It From Here to Enrich Learning Over Time
Notes
2. Culture in College Teaching
Theoretical Underpinnings of Our Work
A Note on Essentializing and Intersectionality
The Changing Student Body Alongside the Relatively Unchanging Faculty
Student Completion Rates
Faculty Matter
Culture Matters
Elements of Culture
Ethnicity and Race
U.S. Higher Education Heritage and the Invisibility of Monoculturalism
Cultural Strengths
Culture Matters to Learning
The Expanding Nature of Learning Environments
Neuroscience Supports Balancing Cultural Frameworks
Engaged Learning Leads to Boundary Crossing
Note
3. Rewards, Dilemmas, and Challenges of Teaching Across Cultural Frameworks
Core Principles
Opportunities and Rewards of Culturally Engaged Teaching
Vulnerability of Culturally Engaged Teaching
Design Dilemmas
Personal Challenges of Culturally Engaged Teaching
Conclusion
4. Applying Cultural Introspection to Teaching and Learning
Going Inward: Knowing Ourselves Culturally as Faculty
Developing Our Teaching Through Cultural Introspection
Looking Outward: Learning Culturally About Students
Conclusion
5. Strengths-Based Teaching in Cultural Context
Getting Started: Conceptualizing
Reimagining Our Teaching: The Influence of Teaching Philosophy on Learning, Student Success, and Retention
When Everyone’s Learning Is the Objective: Pedagogy, Facilitation, and Interaction Across Cultural Frameworks
Time, Timing, and Scheduling
Climate, Facilitation, and Interaction
Initiating and Sustaining Student Engagement Across Cultures
Balancing Activities Across Cultural Norms, Learning Processes, and Personalities
Additional Considerations
Note
6. Top 10 Things Faculty Can Do to Teach Across Cultures
Self-Reflect Culturally
Modify One Cultural Continuum
Talk With Three Students
Explore One Negative Attribution
Share With Students the Value of Balancing Cultural Frameworks
Connect to Student Lives
Partner With Students
Make a Personal Connection
Assess Creatively
Consider the Rewards
7. Spreading the Cultural Word: Faculty Development on a Larger Scale
On-Campus Culture and Teaching Seminars
Multiple-Day Culture and Teaching Institutes
Sustained Culture and Teaching Faculty Cohorts
Websites
Individual Self-Development
Informal Sharing
National and International Presentations and Institutes
Resources
8. The Story of Our Work With Faculty
Realizing Our Hopes
Beginnings
Coming Together and Planning
Philosophical and Organizational Underpinnings
The Faculty Development Project
The Program
Final Assessment
Research
Faculty Group Dynamics
Final Reflections: Toward Learning Equity: Cultivating a Culture of Belief in Students
Appendix A: Guide to Writing a Culture and Teaching Autobiography
Steps of Analysis
Appendix B: Resources
Theory and Research on Culture and Teaching in Higher Education
Teaching Guides Related to Culture and Teaching: Collegiate, K–12, and Adult Learning Sources
Faculty Teaching Introspection
Learning Theory and Research