This powerful book addresses the issues of diversity from the perspective of individual differences rather than stereotypes. Part I deals with development of self-awareness--from the inside out--and Part II deals with development of awareness of others--from the outside in. The authors make no assumptions about the cultural, racial, or ethnic background of their readers. The perspective of the book is that all people are strongly shaped by culture, including white, able-bodied, heterosexual persons of European ancestry who consider themselves to be the dominant culture in North America and Western Europe. The authors offer information and exercises that help readers learn to assess cross-cultural situations and interact personally and professionally with others who are likely, because of their cultural backgrounds, to have different values, perceptions, behaviors, and expectations of how people should act towards them. Throughout the book, readers will find examples that will help them see how cultural expectations may shape their own reactions to common situations. For example, readers may have experienced feeling offended when someone asks what they consider to be an intrusive question, or they may have felt anxious when alone in an elevator with a person of another race or a disheveled, unkempt person. As readers learn about their own ingrained assumptions, they will begin to develop an appreciation of others' values and beliefs. This primer provides a learning-as-practice model where readers, through the use of exercises, strategies , and conceptual material, first recognize and develop their own communication styles and then work on how they interact with others.

Understanding Diversity: A Learning-as-Practice Primer

Self-Help

Okun, Barbara F.

Okun, Marcia L.

Fried, Jane

Relationships

Wadsworth Publishing

This monograph examines some of the assumptions underlying student affairs administration and student development education, particularly those concerning sex-role socialization. The authors describe the effects of sex-role socialization and some implications for student affairs administrators. By exploring gender, perceptions, conflict management, and leadership, this book attempts to contribute to an understanding of our historical assumptions about the world and how we make sense of our work in it as women and men, as student affairs professionals in an academic environment, as Americans in a global community, and as human beings.

Different Voices: Gender and Perspective in Student Affairs Administration (Naspa Monograph, 16)

Natl Assn of Student Personnel

Supporting and Enhancing Learning on Campus: Effective Pedagogy Beyond the Classroom

This book confronts the assumption that learning only happens in the classroom. College students learn through both formal and informal activities in a range of campus and community spaces; supporting these educational opportunities allows for more meaningful intellectual, social, and emotional learning. This book provides the theoretical and pedagogical framework for removing traditional learning boundaries to create collaborative, engaged, and effective learning experiences. Drawing from case studies and theory, this book helps student affairs and higher education professionals reflect on and develop broader learning environments that promote development and success for all students.

Education & Teaching

Laker, Jason

Harper, Ruth

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

This book confronts the assumption that learning only happens in the classroom. College students learn through both formal and informal activities in a range of campus and community spaces; supporting these educational opportunities allows for more meaningful intellectual, social, and emotional learning. This book provides the theoretical and pedagogical framework for removing traditional learning boundaries to create collaborative, engaged, and effective learning experiences. Drawing from case studies and theory, this book helps student affairs and higher education professionals reflect on and develop broader learning environments that promote development and success for all students.

Transformative Learning Through Engagement

Jane Fried’s overarching message is that higher education is based on a profoundly outdated industrial model of the purpose and delivery of learning and needs urgently to be changed. Student affairs professionals and academic faculty have become frustrated with the alienation of so many students from academic learning because they cannot see its connection to their lives. This book – addressed to everyone involved in helping college students learn – presents what we now know about the learning process, particularly those elements that promote behavioral change and the ability to place information in a broader context of personal meaning and long term impact. Central to its argument is that learning must be experiential and engage students holistically; that it must be grounded in brain science and an understanding of the cultural drivers of knowledge construction; that academic faculty and student affairs professionals must cooperate to help students make connections and see the implications of their learning for their lives; and that the entire learning environment needs to be integrated to reflect the organic nature of the process. A second purpose of this book is to enable student affairs professionals to articulate their own role in helping students learn. Student affairs, as a profession, has had difficulty describing its work with students as teaching because the dominant paradigm of teaching continues to suggest a classroom, an academic expert and a model of learning that is basically verbal and cognitive. Student affairs professionals who read this book will be able to understand and articulate the processes of experiential, transformative education to their academic colleagues and to help collegially design integrated learning experiences as partners with academic faculty. The book concludes with a number of brief invited chapters that describe a few emerging models and programs that illustrate Jane Fried’s vision of transformative learning experiences that integrate experience, study, and reflection. This book was written with contributions from: Craig Alimo Julie Beth Elkins Scott Hazan Elsa M. Núñez Vernon Percy Christopher Pudlinski Sarah Stookey

Higher & Continuing Education

Of Education, Fishbowls, and Rabbit Holes: Rethinking Teaching and Liberal Education for an Interconnected World

This book questions some of our most ingrained assumptions, not only about the nature of teaching and learning, but about what constitutes education, and about the cultural determinants of what is taught.What if who you think you are profoundly affects what and how you learn? Since Descartes, teachers in the Western tradition have dismissed the role of self in learning. What if our beliefs about self and learning are wrong, and relevance of knowledge to self actually enhances learning, as current research suggests?Jane Fried deconstructs the Grand Western Narrative of teaching and learning, describing it is a cultural fishbowl through which we see the world, rarely aware of the fishbowl itself, be it disciplinary constructs or the definition of liberal education.She leads us on a journey to question “the way things are”; to attend to the personal narratives of others from ethnic, racial and faith groups different from ourselves; to rediscover self-authorship as the core task of learning in college; and to empower ourselves and students to navigate the disorientation of the Alice in Wonderland rabbit holes of modern life.This is a book for all educators concerned about the purpose of college and of the liberal arts in the 21st century, and what it is we should reasonably expect students to learn. Jane Fried both upends many received ideas and offers constructive insights based on science and evidence, and does so in an engaging way that will stimulate reflection.

Shifting Paradigms in Student Affairs

Shifting Paradigms is addressed to all student affairs professionals whose primary focus is student learning. Faculty members in preparation programs, senior administrators and student development educators in residence halls, student unions or career counseling offices will use the ideas presented in different ways. Nevertheless, the book has a common purpose for all readers which is to assert the educational functions of student affairs and services, and to situate student development education solidly within the mission of colleges and universities in the United States. This goal is achieved through examination of some of the diversity issues which are troubling so many campuses today. Diversity is broadly construed to include differences related to race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender and disability status as well as differences in perspective generated by professional roles and philosophy. This book presents a new paradigm for the profession of student affairs and the practice of student development. Co-published with American College Personnel Association.

University Press of America

Shifting Paradigms is addressed to all student affairs professionals whose primary focus is student learning. Faculty members in preparation programs, senior administrators and student development educators in residence halls, student unions or career counseling offices will use the ideas presented in different ways. Nevertheless, the book has a common purpose for all readers which is to assert the educational functions of student affairs and services, and to situate student development education solidly within the mission of colleges and universities in the United States. This goal is achieved through examination of some of the diversity issues which are troubling so many campuses today. Diversity is broadly construed to include differences related to race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender and disability status as well as differences in perspective generated by professional roles and philosophy. This book presents a new paradigm for the profession of student affairs and the practice of student development. Co-published with American College Personnel Association.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

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Understanding Diversity: A Learning-as-Practice Primer

Different Voices: Gender and Perspective in Student Affairs Administration (Naspa Monograph, 16)

Supporting and Enhancing Learning on Campus: Effective Pedagogy Beyond the Classroom

Supporting and Enhancing Learning on Campus: Effective Pedagogy Beyond the Classroom

Transformative Learning Through Engagement

Of Education, Fishbowls, and Rabbit Holes: Rethinking Teaching and Liberal Education for an Interconnected World

Of Education, Fishbowls, and Rabbit Holes: Rethinking Teaching and Liberal Education for an Interconnected World

Shifting Paradigms in Student Affairs

Shifting Paradigms in Student Affairs