Description:
Brings together leading scholars to examine how integrating race, gender, ethnicity, and class into higher education can reshape scholarship, pedagogy, and the liberal arts curriculum.
As colleges and universities confront the urgent need to rethink traditional academic frameworks, Transforming the Curriculum offers a vision for inclusive and interdisciplinary education. Bringing together leading scholars in ethnic studies, women's studies, history, literature, and cultural theory, this landmark collection explores how race, gender, class, and identity reshape the liberal arts curriculum.
From feminist pedagogy and anti-racist teaching strategies to African American, Chicano, Jewish, Asian American, and American Indian studies, the essays in this volume challenge conventional academic boundaries while offering practical models for curricular reform. Contributors address the politics of representation, the transformation of scholarship, and the evolving role of higher education in a multicultural society.
Featuring influential voices including Johnnetta B. Cole, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ruth Frankenberg, and Frank Chin, this collection remains an essential resource for educators, students, and scholars committed to transforming teaching and learning.
Brief description: John C. Walter is Professor and Head of the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Cincinnati.
Review Quotes:
"This book represents a new vision of curricular change in higher education and presents the theoretical and practical bases for accomplishing it. It bridges the gap between women's studies and ethnic studies, two interdisciplinary bodies of knowledge that have provided significant and important pedagogical innovations in the academy; the dialogue between these two fields has the potential to guide thinking about curricular change for faculty in all fields of study." --Betty Schmitz, University of Maryland, College Park
"Universities are being pressured by ethnic groups and women to revise their curricula to reflect ethnic and gender content. This book provides many insights and resources that can be used to help universities to revise their curricula to more accurately depict the experiences of ethnic groups and women. Many of the chapters in the book provide fresh perspectives, new scholarship, and examples of teaching strategies and materials that are effective in integrating content about women and ethnic groups in the university curriculum." --James A. Banks, University of Washington, Seattle