Cultural Compass
Navigating Curriculum Design in Higher Education
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Cultural Compass: Navigating Curriculum Design in Higher Education offers a timely, practical guide for faculty who want to move beyond surface-level inclusion and design courses that reflect the cultural realities of today’s students and global society. Grounded in a replicable Model of Cultural Infusion, the authors introduce the Building Blocks framework: four progressive levels (Auxiliary, Comprehensive, Community and Societal Influence, and Conversion) that help instructors embed cultural consciousness into content, instruction, assessment, and technology without sacrificing academic rigor.
With discipline-specific applications spanning liberal arts, arts and architecture, education, computing and informatics, health, engineering, science, and mathematics, Cultural Compass shows exactly how to translate the framework into learning outcomes, assignments, and readings. Built-in pre/post self-measures and an observation instrument support continuous improvement and provide evidence of impact for departments, teaching and learning centers, and institutional initiatives. Artificial Intelligence and online learning are also addressed.
Ideal for instructors, instructional leaders, and graduate students preparing to teach, Cultural Compass equips readers with a clear roadmap to create culturally grounded, engaging learning experiences
Part I. Establishing the Framework for Cultural Infusion in Education
- Chapter 1. The Art of Cultural Adaptation in Academia; Gloria D. Campbell-Whatley, Jugnu Swarup Agrawal, Keonya C. Booker, and Diane Rodriguez
- Chapter 2. The Building Blocks for Inclusion Infusion: Constructing Bridges, Not Barriers; Gloria D. Campbell-Whatley
- Chapter 3. Organizational Development: Reinventing Education, One Course at a Time; Kimberly Bunch-Crump and Gloria D. Campbell-Whatley
- Chapter 4. Sense of Belonging: Cultivating Community and Connection on Campus; Keonya C. Booker and Kim M. Reddig
- Chapter 5. Micro to Macro: Tackling Aggressions, Building Solutions; Keonya C. Booker
- Chapter 6. Integrating Online Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Culture in Higher Education; Gloria D. Campbell-Whatley and Kimberly Bunch-Crump
- Part II. Infusing Culture: Strategies and Resources for Discipline-Specific Integration
- Chapter 7. Bridging Worlds: Integrating Cultural Perspectives into Science Education; Gloria D. Campbell-Whatley and DeSilver Cohen
- Chapter 8. Mathematics Across Cultures: Unlocking Global Insights in Numbers; Jugnu Swarup Agrawal and Gloria D. Campbell-Whatley
- Chapter 9. Blueprints for Inquiry: Building Learning Pathways in Liberal Arts; Kimberly Bunch-Crump and Gloria D. Campbell-Whatley
- Chapter 10. Brushstrokes and Blueprints: The Cultural Pulse of Art and Architecture; Gloria D. Campbell-Whatley and Kimberly Bunch-Crump
- Chapter 11. Embedding Cultural in Teacher Preparation; Deondra Gladney Campbell and Gloria D. Campbell-Whatley
- Chapter 12. Beyond the Binary: Infusing Culture into Computing Education; Deondra Gladney Campbell and Gloria D. Campbell-Whatley
- Chapter 13. The Cultural Prescription: Designing Health Science Course Activities; Gloria D. Campbell-Whatley and Keonya C. Booker
- Chapter 14. Cultural Constructs: Shaping Engineering Education for a Global Society; Gloria D. Campbell-Whatley and Keonya C. Booker
- Epilogue: Culture, Innovation, and the Future of Education, Technology, and Society; Gloria D. Campbell-Whatley
Gloria D. Campbell-Whatley is a Professor in the Department of Special Education and Child Development at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.
Kimberly Bunch-Crump, a specialist in BCBA-D, is an Assistant Professor of Special Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
Keonya C. Booker is a Professor of Educational Psychology and Interim Dean of the Graduate School at the College of Charleston.