“Course Is Team Taught”

SUMMARY

We report on students' response to kinds of difference in the classroom as we have assessed it in our personal experience as a same-sex, mixed race, leftist couple team teaching in two disciplines and at five separate schools over a number of years. We argue that students are more accepting of differences arising out of sexual preference and race and most resistant to differences arising out of class, especially poverty.

Key Words:

• Lesbian
• academic couple
• team teaching
• collaboration
• position sharing
• mixed race