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Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2020
Racism exists within communities and within colleges. It is ever-present in the structures that professionals in the California Community Colleges system work within and that students of color must navigate. Striving to achieve equity is not enough and is not possible within the current community college system. Policies, processes, and other…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Racial Bias, Minority Group Students, Equal Education
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Disch, Lisa – PS: Political Science and Politics, 1991
Describes the evolution of feminist critical theory from a study of individuals' roles to the study of the interplay between gender relations and the institutional contexts within which they take shape. Surveys the writing of feminist theorists covering institutions, decision-making processes, cultural symbols, and everyday practices. (DK)
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Criticism, Feminism, Higher Education
Solomon, R. Patrick, Ed.; Sekayi, Dia, Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2007
This volume illuminates the most pressing challenges faced by urban schools, teachers, teacher candidates, and teacher training programs and offers a range of insights and possibilities for urban teacher education and teaching. Covering issues spanning the broadly theoretical to the urgently practical, it goes beyond the traditional discourses in…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Cultural Pluralism, Justice
Shor, Ira – 1996
This personal report of classroom experiences at an urban commuter college relates the experiences of a teacher and a group of working-class students studying the book "Utopia," which is also the metaphor for the hoped-for learning experience. The book, illustrated by excerpts from student-submitted work, shows how pedagogical theory leads to…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Commuter Colleges, Creative Teaching