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Teaching Across Cultural Strengths
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.
Publisher's description.
Call number: FTLC LB 2331 .C513 2016
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