CH 4 Diversity- “DEVELOPING DIVERSITY CONSCIOUSNESS”
I. The Importance of Diversity Consciousness p. 119
a. Enhances diversity skills—12 examples:
b. Expands your horizons and empowers you.. What is a possession which can not be taken from you?
c. Promotes personal growth and strengthens your social network
Carol Gallagher, Going to the Top, top female execs of Fortune 1000 companies?
II. Cultural Encapsulation p. 121—How diverse is your own social group? Does cultural encapsulation make it difficult for us to realize how our environment shapes our assumptions? Metaphor? Good or bad?
a. Socialization? p. 122
b. Did your own education reflect many cultures?
III. 6 Areas of Development p. 124
a. Examining ourselves and our worlds
i. Nature?
ii. Nurture?
iii. Difficulty seeing interconnection with others
1. p. 127
2. p. 128 enculturation? Good or bad?
Patterns in Problem Solving, Moshe Rubenstein, boat capsize
3. social marginality ?
b. Expanding our knowledge of others
i. Differences p. 129
3. social distance? p.130 Emory Bogardus created a scale to measure what?
ii. Similarities poem p. 131
iii. Stepping outside ourselves p.132
1. Surviving in Two Worlds, Terry Toyofa
2. If you were forced to change 1 attribute: sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation—which would you change? Why? P. 133
3. double consciousness? In the Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois discussed what? the importance of being aware of one’s own perspective as well as the perspectives of others.
iv. Gauging the level of the Playing Field p. 134
1. social inequality?
2. social class?
3. ageism? p. 135
4. unearned privileges? Why is it invisible to us?t
a. White Privilege and Male Privilege, Peggy McIntosh p.136
b. Joe Feagin and Hernan Vera? P.137
c. 2007 Pew Research Report?
d. ABC, “True Colors ? P.138
5. Self-question:
a. Sexism? Classism? Meritocracy? p.139
b. “If 1 person can succeed, anybody can.” Explain.
c. majority? Minority? Difference?
d. Leonard Pitts?
v. Checking up on ourselves p.140
a. critical thinking?
vi. Following Through? p. 141
1. active listening?
IV. Strategies for Developing Diversity Consciousness p. 142
a. Strategies:
ii. p. 143
b. Opportunities for Diversity Educ.p. 144 – 3 types? P. 145
i. www.diversity consciousness.com
iv. p. 146
V. Lifelong, Continuing Process, p. 147 “The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.” Who? Reaction?
a. The First R:…, Debra Van Ausdale and Joe R. Feagin
b. 3 benefits of diversity consciousness?
Who said, “Education is all a matter of building bridges.” Reaction?