Demonstrates that solutions emerge once we assume that both faculty and students still possess a mutual potential for learning when they meet in the college classroom. This title documents a process of pedagogical transformation. It is of use to people interested in making higher education more truly democratic, inclusive, and challenging.

This is a book to inspire and enlighten everyone interested in making higher education more truly democratic, inclusive, and intellectually challenging for today's students. Esther Kingston-Mann is Professor of History and American Studies, and directs the Center for the Improvement of Teaching at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Tim Sieber is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the same institution.

Foreword
Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich Acknowledgments Introduction: Achieving Against the Odds
Esther Kingston-Mann and Tim Sieber 1. Coming Out and Leading Out: Pedagogy Beyond the Closet
Kathleen M. Sands 2. Three Steps Forward, One Step Back: Dilemmas of Upward Mobility
Esther Kingston-Mann 3. Learning to Listen to Students and Oneself
Tim Sieber 4. Language and Cultural Capital: Reflections of a "Junior" Professor
Reyes Coll-Tellechea 5. Racial Problems in Society and in the Classroom
Castellano B. Turner 6. Teaching (as) Composing
Vivian Zamel 7. Teaching, Tenure, and Institutional Transformation: Reflections on Race, Culture, and Resilience at an Urban Public University
Peter Nien-Chu Kiang 8.Teaching American Dreams/American Realities: Students' Lives and Faculty Agendas
Lois Rudnick 9. Teaching, Learning, and Judging: Some Reflections on the University and Political Legitimacy
Winston E. Langley 10. Gender Trouble in the Gender Course: Managing and Mismanaging Conflict in the Classroom
Estelle Disch 11. Odd Man Out
Pancho Savery About the Contributors Index