Teaching Transformation: Transcultural Classroom Dialogues

by AnaLouise Keating

Drawing on indigenous belief systems and recent work in critical "race" studies and multicultural-feminist theory, Keating provides detailed step-by-step suggestions, based on her own teaching experiences, designed to anticipate students' resistance to social-justice issues and encourage them to change. She offers a holistic approach to theory and practice.

276 pages, Hardcover

First published May 15, 2007

About the author

AnaLouise Keating, Professor of Women’s Studies at Texas Woman’s University, is the author of Women Reading, Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde; editor of Anzaldúa’s Interviews/Entrevistas and EntreMundos/AmongWorlds: New Perspectives on Gloria Anzaldúa; and co-editor, with Anzaldúa, of this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation.

Reviews

[Benjamin Fasching-Gray · Rating 3 out of 5]

After defining a set of noble goals in teaching what she calls "transformative multiculturalism" (as opposed to a toothless big-L Liberal multiculturalism), she navigates through identity politics and comes out with a platform for an "invitational pedagogy." I could agree with all of her conclusions, if the arguments she used to get there were at times a tad new-agey. How to actually do this stuff in the classroom is left a little nebulous -- until the appendixes which make up half the book and are suddenly at the other end of the spectrum and way too concrete with sample syllabi and the equivalent of study guides and check lists. Unless you are also teaching literature and want to simply crib from analouise keating, I think Anne Bishop's "Becoming an Ally" is a more helpful guide for "transcultural classroom dialogue."

[Marta Langston · Rating 5 out of 5]

An enjoyable, transformative book. I love the idea of transformational multiculturalism. It make sense! I've implemented many of the techniques in my own teaching, and they work well.