Diversity in the Composition Classroom is the 4th book in the Fountainhead Press X-Series for Professional Development. This collection of essays is designed to assist with the tasks of understanding our students, thinking about how their insights are affecting the work we are asking them to do, introducing them to new ideas and ways of thinking without imposing our own viewpoints or negating theirs, and learning from our students as we expand our own worldviews and experiences. The authors of this collection call attention to the needs of students who have been labeled minority or other because of skin color, sex-object choice, religion, geography, socioeconomic class, ethnicity, age, language, physical embodiment, or other identifiers. The collection also offers guidance for incorporating issues of diversity into our curricula.
Essays include discussion of:
Embodiment - Looks at how your physical body must be recognized and used as a means to incorporate diversity into the classroom.
Classroom Content - Advice on how to include diversity issues in your curriculum.
Classroom Interaction - Examine diversity as it applies to classroom dynamics.
Diversity within Texts - Teaches students to see how texts are used oppress others by what they include and what they leave out.
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