Social Change in Diverse Teaching Contexts

Contents: Nancy G. Barron/Nancy M. Grimm/Sibylle Gruber: Social Change in Routine Practices - Nancy M. Grimm/Jill Arola: Reclaiming Hope: A Process Analysis of a Graduate Seminar Stalled on a Racial Dynamic - Helle Rytkønen: Whose Knowledge? How Race, Class, Religion, and Gender Intersect and Interfere with «Our» Intellectual Community - Nancy G. Barron: Digitized Identities, Real People, and the Need for New Keys: Reflections on Teaching, Learning, and Knowing - Kathryn Valentine: Noticing Disagreement: A Question-Based Approach to Reflecting on How Literary Practices Shape Identities - Amy Suzanne Johnson: Layering Experiences, Creating Points of Contact: An Autoethnographic Inquiry into Critically Reflective Teaching Narratives - Sibylle Gruber: Teaching within History's Reach: Teacher Positionality, Student Identity, and Revised Classroom Practices - Dianna Rockwell Shank: «I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings»: Using Race as a Writing Prompt in a Composition Classroom - Karen Keaton Jackson: The Compositionist as «Other»: A Critical Self-Reflection of an Instructor of Color in an Urban Service-Learning Classroom - John Liang/Sydney Rice: Forging New Identities: A Journey of Collaboration between Native- and Nonnative-English-Speaking Educators - Sarah Innes: Literacy Myths, Literacy Identities: The Writing Center Regulates Institutional Constructions of Racial Identity - Cynthia L. Selfe/Gail E. Hawisher/Nichole Brown: The Cultural Ecology of Race and Technology - Karen Leong/Shelley Ruelas/Duane Roen: Changing Realities: A New Paradigm for the Multicultural University - Helen Fox: Social Change in Diverse Teaching Contexts: Touchy Subjects and Routine Practices.

The Editors: Nancy G. Barron is Assistant Professor of English at Northern Arizona University. She received her Ph.D. in rhetoric and technical communication from Michigan Technological University. Her work on confronting identity issues in higher education can be found in various professional journals.
Nancy M. Grimm is Associate Professor of Humanities at Michigan Technological University where she also received her Ph.D. in rhetoric and technical communication. She is the author of Good Intentions: Writing Center Work for Postmodern Times (1999), and she has published widely on Writing Center work in professional journals.
Sibylle Gruber is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Northern Arizona University. She received her Ph.D. in writing studies from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Literacies, Experiences, and Technologies: Reflective Practices of an Alien Researcher (2007), and she has published widely in professional journals.