Edited by: David Philoxene, Danfeng Soto-Vigil Koon, Emma Haydée Fuentes
Foreword by: Margo Okazawa-Rey
Publication Date: November 22, 2024
Pages: 240
Series: Teaching for Social Justice Series
Increasingly, faculty with intersectional perspectives are challenging many aspects of higher education and urging a radical reimagination of the institution itself. This volume explores the successful strategies and contradictions of working within, against, and beyond a university with the goal of creating a humanizing educational experience for students and faculty alike. Providing a glimpse of what is possible, chapter authors describe their efforts to build alternative core curriculums, research apprenticeships, community partnerships, ways of interacting with one another, and models of leadership. They reimagine academic milestones and processes like hiring, tenure and promotion, faculty support, research, funding, publishing, collaboration, and more. Each essay details the institutional structures and supports that were effective at improving academic work in teaching and research contexts. Crafting Homeplace in the Academic Borderlands is a much-needed examination of what it means to create a homeplace in academia where humanization is practiced as the foundation for a new way to teach, learn, know, and be in relationships.
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David Philoxene, is an assistant professor of teacher education and faculty affiliate in the Center for Humanizing Education and Research. Danfeng Soto-Vigil Koon is co-director of the Transformative School Leadership Program and associate professor of leadership studies. Emma Haydée Fuentes is department chair and professor of international and multicultural education. All are at the University of San Francisco, School of Education.
“In a time of great tumult and uncertainty, the editors have compiled a meditation on the necessity of always (re)turning home. In the face of the daily violence of the academy, their charge is one that cannot be overlooked in these moments of permanent distraction.”
—David Stovall, professor, University of Illinois Chicago
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