Teaching diversity :listening to the soul, speaking from the heart /Joan V. Gallos, V. Jean Ramsey and associates.

Name/Title

Teaching diversity :listening to the soul, speaking from the heart /Joan V. Gallos, V. Jean Ramsey and associates.

Description

Starting point for the journey. Identity -- Preparation -- The experience of being "othered" -- Understanding the diversity teaching terrain. What is the work? -- How diversity education differs from other teaching/training -- Evolution in definitions of the work -- Choices of strategies and arenas for change -- Distinctive features of the landscape. Teacher as learner -- Teacher-student relationships and roles -- Integrating the personal and emotional into teaching -- Institutional, structural, and systemic issues -- Dilemmas and paradoxes in the teaching-learning process -- Team teaching -- Other ways of teaching -- Seeing the journey as the work. Vulnerability -- Pain and anger -- Reflection as necessity -- Choosing the work as the journey. Sustaining commitment -- Collaboration and community building -- Joys and benefits of the work -- Future directions -- Final thoughts: listening to the soul, speaking from the heart. xxvii, 274 pages ;24 cm.

Book Details

Author

Gallos, Joan V.

Place Published

City

San Francisco, Calif.

Publication Subjects

Diversity in the workplace--Study and teaching. Diversity in the workplace--Study and teaching.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00895723

Call No.

HF5549.5 .M5 G35 1997

ISBN

0787903256, 9780787903251

LCCN

96032707

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-241) and indexes. Carrier type: volumencrdacarrier Media type: unmediatednrdamedia Date: [1997] Publication Info: {copy}1997