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HUMAN ARCHITECTURE
Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge

Volume VI • Issue 1 • Winter 2008

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Teaching Transformation

Contributions from the January 2008 Annual Conference on Teaching for Transformation of the Center for the Improvement of Teaching, UMass Boston

Journal Editor:
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, UMass Boston
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Issue Co-Editor:
Vivian Zamel, UMass Boston

This Winter 2008 (VI, 1) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge reflects the diversity and richness of presentations at the 2008 Annual Conference on Teaching for Transformation organized by the Center for the Improvement of Teaching at UMass Boston. Representing faculty across different disciplines, these essays reflect these teachers’ creative and thoughtful pedagogical approaches, their focus on challenging and engaging learners, and their commitment to both excellence and inclusion. The title chosen for this volume, “Teaching Transformation,” highlights a two-fold interest and commitment that the organizers and participants in the annual conference have commonly shared. One is to advance teaching as a venue for transformative pedagogical and social practices that empower students, faculty, and communities in favor of a deeper respect for diversity, inclusion, and justice. However, by choosing the title the editors also emphasize that to meet the first goal, it is also necessary to see teaching and one’s habits of teaching as fluid and dynamic, and not static and established, habitus. To advance transformative teaching (and learning), it is necessary to continually transform our teaching and pedagogical approaches creatively and help one another to do the same. Contributors include: Vivian Zamel, Leonard von Morzé, Stephen E. Slaner, Sandra Clyne, John Chetro-Szivos, Lauren Mackenzie, Meesh McCarthy, Erin O’Brien, Corinne R. Merritt, Linda G. Dumas, Theodore Trevens, Pamela Katz Ressler, Tara Devi S. Ashok, and Mohammad H. Tamdgidi.

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To order please contact the editor. —————————————— ISBN-13: 978-1-888024-59-3 eBook PDF ISBN-10: 1-888024-28-3 paperback ISBN-13: 978-1-888024-28-9 paperback ISSN: 1540-5699 Number of Pages: 82 Publisher: Okcir Press (2008 pb) (2012 eb) Language: English Product Dimensions: 7x10 inches

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Contents
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Teaching Transformation

Contributions from the January 2008 Annual Conference on Teaching for Transformation of the Center for the Improvement of Teaching, UMass Boston

vii—Editors’ Note: Teaching Transformation
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi and Vivian Zamel, University of Massachusetts Boston

ix—About the Center for the Improvement of Teaching at UMass Boston

1—Beyond the Clip: Critical Uses of Film in the Non-Film Course
    Leonard von Morzé, University of Massachusetts Boston

7—The Use of Spike Lee’s Bamboozled to Promote Difficult Dialogues on Race
Stephen E. Slaner & Sandra Clyne,
Northern Essex Community College & Northeastern University/Bunker Hill Community College

17—Making Assessment Everyone’s Business:
The Use of Dialogue in Improving Teaching and Learning
John Chetro-Szivos & Lauren Mackenzie, Fitchburg State College

27—Check One: Tutor Hat, Teacher Hat, Facilitator Hat, Some/All/None of the Above
Meesh McCarthy & Erin O’Brien, University of Massachusetts Boston

45—First-Generation College Students: Then and Now
Corinne R. Merritt, Emmanuel College

53—Promoting Nursing Workforce Diversity on an Urban Campus
Linda G. Dumas, Theodore Trevens & Pamela Katz Ressler, University of Massachusetts Boston

61—Teach Others to Learn While You Are Learning to Teach:
A Personal Journey in Linking Pedagogy and Technology
Tara Devi S. Ashok, University of Massachusetts Boston