Experiencing Diversity

Author : Melissa D. Giesbrecht,Valorie A. Crooks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317080565

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Place, Health, and Diversity by Melissa D. Giesbrecht,Valorie A. Crooks Pdf

Although health equity and diversity-focussed research has begun to gain momentum, there is still a paucity of research from health geographers that explicitly explores how geographic factors, such as place, space, scale, community, and location, inform multiple axes of difference. Such axes can include residential location, age, sex, gender, race/ethnicity, culture, religion, socio-economic status, marital status, sexual orientation, education level, and immigration status. Specifically focussing on Canada’s rapidly changing society, which is becoming increasingly pluralized and diverse, this book examines the place-health-diversity intersection in this national context. Health geographers are well positioned to offer a valuable contribution to diversity-focussed research because place is inextricably linked to differential experiences of health. For example, access to health care and health promoting services and resources is largely influenced by where one is physically and socially situated within the web of diversity. Furthermore, applying geographic concepts like place, in both the physical and social sense, allows researchers to explore multiple axes of difference simultaneously. Such geographic perspectives, as presented in this book, offer new insights into what makes diverse people, in diverse places, with access to diverse resources (un)healthy in different ways in Canada and beyond.

Author : Aaron Thompson,Joseph B Cuseo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1792406576

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Diversity and the College Experience by Aaron Thompson,Joseph B Cuseo Pdf

Author : Rebecca F. Plante,Lis M. Mau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429980565

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Doing Gender Diversity by Rebecca F. Plante,Lis M. Mau Pdf

This cutting-edge reader demonstrates the multiple ways in which the universe of gender is socially, culturally, and historically constructed. The selections focus on gender itself - how gender operates socioculturally, exists, functions, and is presented in micro and macro interactions. In order to avoid balkanization, the authors examine the various ways in which culture intersects with individuals to produce the range of presentations of self that we call 'gender', from people born male who become adult men to lesbian women to transmen, and everyone else on the diverse gender spectrum.

Author : Darío Luis Banegas,Griselda Beacon,Mercedes Pérez Berbain
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030749811

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International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT by Darío Luis Banegas,Griselda Beacon,Mercedes Pérez Berbain Pdf

This edited book provides professionals in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) with a situated and culturally-responsive account of diversity and inclusion in English language education, from primary to higher education and in a wide range of settings. The volume focuses on three overlapping areas: interculturality, special education needs, and gender. The chapters in each section seek to help readers reflect on the opportunities and challenges of diversity as a step towards inclusive practices, and raise awareness of critical topics across the curriculum and beyond by engaging in wider social issues. This book will be of interest to language teachers and teacher trainers, as well as scholars working in applied linguistics, higher education, intercultural studies, and related fields.

Author : Scott, Chaunda L.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781522502104

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Developing Workforce Diversity Programs, Curriculum, and Degrees in Higher Education by Scott, Chaunda L. Pdf

Workforce diversity refers to a strategy that promotes and supports the integration of human diversity at all levels and uses focused diversity and inclusion policies and practices to guide this approach in work environments. While this concept is not new, publications outlining the programming, curriculum, and degree demands that should exist in universities to promote workforce diversity skill development are missing. Developing Workforce Diversity Programs, Curriculum, and Degrees in Higher Education presents conceptual and research-based perspectives on course, program, and degree developments that emphasize workforce diversity skill development and prepare next-generation leaders for the modern and emerging workforce. Highlighting crucial topics relating to career development, human resources management, organizational leadership, and business education, this edited volume is a ground-breaking resource for business professionals, scholars, researchers, entrepreneurs, educators, and upper-level students working, studying, and seeking to advance workforce diversity learning across a variety of sectors.

Author : David Killick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137526175

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Internationalization and Diversity in Higher Education by David Killick Pdf

This timely new book examines the impact of internationalization and diversity in higher education and provides practical guidance on how to manage an increasingly varied range of expectations and needs, and ensure that academic practice best serves the needs of all students across diverse learning spaces.

Author : Stefan Gröschl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317149200

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Diversity in the Workplace by Stefan Gröschl Pdf

Most regions and countries in the world are experiencing increasingly diverse populations and labour markets. While the causes may vary, the challenges businesses face due to a heightened awareness of this diversity are often similar. Internally, organisations promote diversity and manage increasingly heterogeneous workforces, accommodate and integrate employees with different value and belief systems, and combat a range of different forms of discrimination with organisational and also societal consequences. Externally, organisations have to manage demands from government, consumer, and lobbying sources for the implementation of anti-discrimination policies and laws. This has generated demand for appropriate higher level teaching programmes and for more diversity-focused research. Diversity in the Workplace responds to the increasing social and political debate and interest in diversity throughout Europe. The contributors discuss the concept of diversity in different social and legal contexts and from the perspectives of different academic disciplines including sociology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy and organizational theory. The book includes a European view and the makings of a conceptual framework to literature on diversity that hitherto has tended to be US orientated and overwhelmingly practice focused. It will stimulate fruitful exchanges of ideas about different approaches to the challenges faced by businesses and organisations of all kinds. With chapters by authors involved in research into diversity issues at leading academic institutions across Europe, this book offers much that will interest academics, researchers and higher level students, as well as practitioners wanting to understand managing workforce diversity; affirmative action programmes; and anti-discriminatory policy and practice in a wider context.

Author : Sara Ahmed
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780822352365

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On Being Included by Sara Ahmed Pdf

Ahmed argues that a commitment to diversity is frequently substituted for a commitment to actual change. She traces the work that diversity does, examining how the term is used and the way it serves to make questions about racism seem impertinent. Her study is based in universities and her research is primarily in the UK and Australia, but the argument is equally valid in North America and beyond.

Author : Oosterlynck, Stijn,Verschraegen, Gert
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447338178

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Divercities by Oosterlynck, Stijn,Verschraegen, Gert Pdf

How do people deal with diversity in deprived and mixed urban neighbourhoods? This edited collection provides a comparative international perspective on superdiversity in cities, with explicit attention given to social inequality and social exclusion on a neighbourhood level. Although public discourses on urban diversity are often negative, this book focuses on how residents actively and creatively come and live together through micro-level interactions. By deliberately taking an international perspective on the daily lives of residents, the book uncovers the ways in which national and local contexts shape living in diversity. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers and students of poverty, segregation and social mix, conviviality, the effects of international migration, urban and neighbourhood policies and governance, multiculturality, social networks, social cohesion, social mobility, and super-diversity.

Author : Ulrike Schultz,Gisela Shaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782251101

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Gender and Judging by Ulrike Schultz,Gisela Shaw Pdf

Does gender make a difference to the way the judiciary works and should work? Or is gender-blindness a built-in prerequisite of judicial objectivity? If gender does make a difference, how might this be defined? These are the key questions posed in this collection of essays, by some 30 authors from the following countries; Argentina, Cambodia, Canada, England, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kenya, the Netherlands, the Philippines, South Africa, Switzerland, Syria and the United States. The contributions draw on various theoretical approaches, including gender, feminist and sociological theories. The book's pressing topicality is underlined by the fact that well into the modern era male opposition to women's admission to, and progress within, the judicial profession has been largely based on the argument that their very gender programmes women to show empathy, partiality and gendered prejudice - in short essential qualities running directly counter to the need for judicial objectivity. It took until the last century for women to begin to break down such seemingly insurmountable barriers. And even now, there are a number of countries where even this first step is still waiting to happen. In all of them, there remains a more or less pronounced glass ceiling to women's judicial careers.

Author : Alma Carten,Alan Siskind,Mary Pender Greene
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199368914

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Strategies for Deconstructing Racism in the Health and Human Services by Alma Carten,Alan Siskind,Mary Pender Greene Pdf

Building on the successful outcomes of a five-year initiative undertaken in New York City, Alma Carten, Alan Siskind, and Mary Pender Greene bring together a national roster of leading practitioners, scholars, and advocates who draw upon extensive practice experiences and original research. Together, they offer a range of strategies with a high potential for creating the critical mass for change that is essential to transforming the nation's health and human services systems. Strategies for Deconstructing Racism in the Health and Human Services closes the gap in the literature examining the role of interpersonal bias, structural racism, and institutional racism that diminish service access and serve as the root cause for the persistence of disparate racial and ethnic outcomes observed in the nation's health and human services systems. The one-of-a-kind text is especially relevant today as population trends are dramatically changing the nation's demographic and cultural landscape, while funds for the health and human services diminish and demands for culturally relevant evidence-based interventions increase. The book is an invaluable resource for service providers and educational institutions that play a central role in the education and preparation of the health and human service workforce.

Author : Jennifer Katz
Publisher : Portage & Main Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781553793533

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Teaching to Diversity by Jennifer Katz Pdf

In Teaching to Diversity, Dr. Jennifer Katz synthesizes the research, and 16 years experience of teaching in inclusive classrooms and schools, to provide answers to several questions: How do I make inclusion work for ALL students? What are the foundational best practices of a truly inclusive learning community? How does one create such a community? The author pulls together, in an organized way, a three-block model of universal design for learning (UDL) and suggests a step-by-step approach for implementing it. This framework includes: Block One, Social and Emotional Learning details ways to build compassionate learning communities (K-12) in which all students feel safe and valued, and develop a positive self-concept, sense of belonging, and respect for diverse others. Block Two, Inclusive Instructional Practice includes a framework for planning units from K-12, and explains instructional and management practices for teaching, assessing, grading, and reporting in UDL Classrooms. Block Three, Systems and Structures suggests strategies for creating inclusive learning communities, and explores ways in which resource teachers, student services personnel, and school administrators can support and create socially and academically inclusive schools and classrooms. The three-block model of UDL can empower educators with the knowledge, skills, and confidence required to teach diverse learners in the same classroom--including those who have previously been excluded. Ultimately, it is about creating classrooms and schools that heal by teaching to the heart, mind, and spirit of every student.

Author : Sherwood Thompson
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781787148062

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Campus Diversity Triumphs by Sherwood Thompson Pdf

This book provides insightful accounts into the diversity program successes and promising practices by diversity officers working on college and university campuses in the United States.

Author : Michalle E. Mor Barak
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781544333069

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Managing Diversity by Michalle E. Mor Barak Pdf

The award-winning Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace uses an interdisciplinary approach to provide students with an understanding of diversity from a global perspective. Author Michalle E. Mor Barak offers practical guidelines to help managers create an inclusive workplace and develop an organizational culture that embraces diversity. The Fifth Edition includes expanded coverage of environmental justice, disability diversity, LGBTQ+ diversity, and inclusive leadership.

Author : Berg, Gary A.,Venis, Linda
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799827856

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Accessibility and Diversity in the 21st Century University by Berg, Gary A.,Venis, Linda Pdf

In higher education institutions across the world, rapid changes are occurring as the socio-economic composition of these universities is shifting. The participation of females, ethnic minority groups, and low-income students has increased exponentially, leading to major changes in student activities, curriculum, and overall campus culture. Significant research is a necessity for understanding the need of broader educational access and promoting a newly empowered diverse population of students in today’s universities. Accessibility and Diversity in the 21st Century University is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the provision of higher educational access to a more diverse population with a specific focus on the growing population of women in the university, key intersections with race and sexual preference, and the experiences of low-income students, mid-career and reentry students, and special needs populations. While highlighting topics such as adult learning, race-based achievement gaps, and women’s studies, this publication is ideally designed for educators, higher education faculty, deans, provosts, chancellors, policymakers, sociologists, anthropologists, researchers, scholars, and students seeking current research on modern advancements of diversity in higher education systems.