Learning to Speak, Learning to Listen: How Diversity Works on Campus - Couverture souple

Chase, Susan E.

 
9780801476211: Learning to Speak, Learning to Listen: How Diversity Works on Campus
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0801476216 ISBN 13 : 9780801476211
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Over the past three decades, colleges and universities have committed to encouraging, embracing, and supporting diversity as a core principle of their mission. But how are goals for achieving and maintaining diversity actually met? What is the role of students in this mission? When a university is committed to diversity, what is campus culture like?In Learning to Speak, Learning to Listen, Susan E. Chase portrays how undergraduates at a predominantly white urban institution, which she calls "City University" (a pseudonym), learn to speak and listen to each other across social differences. Chase interviewed a wide range of students and conducted content analyses of the student newspaper, student government minutes, curricula, and website to document diversity debates at this university. Amid various controversies, she identifies a defining moment in the campus culture: a protest organized by students of color to highlight the university's failure to live up to its diversity commitments. Some white students dismissed the protest, some were hostile to it, and some fully engaged their peers of color.In a book that will be useful to students and educators on campuses undergoing diversity initiatives, Chase finds that both students' willingness to share personal stories about their diverse experiences and collaboration among student organizations, student affairs offices, and academic programs encourage speaking and listening across differences and help incorporate diversity as part of the overall mission of the university.

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À propos de l'auteur

Susan E. Chase is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Tulsa. She is author of Ambiguous Empowerment: The Work Narratives of Women School Superintendents and coauthor of Mothers and Children: Feminist Analyses and Personal Narratives.

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Éditeur
Cornell University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801476216
ISBN 13 
9780801476211
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  080144912X ISBN 13 :  9780801449123
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2010
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