Teaching Diversity: Listening to the Soul, Speaking from the Heart (Jossey-Bass Business & Management) [Hardcover]

Joan V. Gallos (Author), V. Jean Ramsey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 22, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0787903256 | ISBN-13: 978-0787903251 | Edition: 1

Teaching Diversity is different from other instruction. Rather than reporting objective themes or imparting detached information on new management techniques, diversity teaching involves questioning our institutions and policies, our definitions of truth and equity, our self-images, and our professional roles. It requires a deep personal journey of self-discovery and growth. Teaching Diversity explores that journey.

This book offers instructors a map to the diversity terrain, helping them choose a personal teaching path, recognize crossroads, anticipate roadblocks, and sustain personal commitment along the way.

This creative and collaborative effort will benefit you professionally and touch you personally. The contributors--women and men from a wide range of ages, cultures, and backgrounds--take a unique look at the paradoxes inherent in the diversity teaching process. Through heartfelt accounts of their own experiences, they provide grounded insights and sound advice about how to prepare for the kind of teaching that changes lives.

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

I know a number of courses still use this book, and I am gratified.  I'm also sorry to report that it is no longer available from the publisher. The book suffered from a revolving door of editors and marketers during its development.  To have done as well as it did while making very few (if any) brochures or mailings tells you something about the power of the narrative and the book's contribution. It survived (and sold) as long as it did by word of mouth from loyal readers.  Many thanks to them!   

This book is a classic; and the process of writing it with our contributors was a magical, collaborative experience of iterative personal and professional growth for all.  I'm sorry Jean Ramsey and I never took the time to publish on the research model that underpin the book. It's feminist, deeply personal, and empowering -- and a creative way to do qualitative research.  Onward!

                                                     Joan V. Gallos

From the Inside Flap

As demographers paint multifaceted portraits of the twenty-first-century workforce, businesses scramble to understand the implications for their organizations, universities struggle to integrate diversity issues into their curricula, and individual instructors face questions of how to teach effectively about this increasingly important topic.Teaching diversity is different from other instruction. Rather than reporting objective themes or imparting detached information on new management techniques, diversity teaching involves questioning our institutions and policies, our definitions of truth and equity, our self-images and our professional roles. It requires a deep personal journey of self-discovery and growth. Teaching Diversity explores that journey.In this book, seventeen management educators offer instructors a map to the diversity terrain, helping them choose a personal teaching path, recognize crossroads, anticipate roadblocks, and sustain personal commitment along the way.This is no ordinary edited volume. It is a creative and collaborative effort that will benefit readers professionally and touch them personally. The contributors--women and men from a wide range of ages, cultures, and backgrounds--join forces in a commitment to provide a realistic portrait of this personal, at times painful, yet always energizing work.Through heartfelt accounts of their own experiences, Gallos, Ramsey, and their associates take a unique look at the paradoxes inherent in the diversity teaching process and provide grounded insights and sound advice about how to prepare for the kind of teaching that changes lives.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 274 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (October 22, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787903256
• ISBN-13: 978-0787903251
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,879,647 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Captures the complexities of teaching diversity, April 20, 2000

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This review is from: Teaching Diversity: Listening to the Soul, Speaking from the Heart (Jossey-Bass Business & Management) (Hardcover)

This book provides faculty with powerful narratives through which they can construct their own narrative of teaching. Creatively edited, Teaching Diversity provides the reader with real life experiences of 21 management faculty who honestly discuss the challenges they experience in teaching about controversial and complex issues of identity and diversity. They also candidly speak about their own experiences, some as faculty of color, navegating student resistance and expectations. Novice teachers will gain insight from the stories of experienced faculty. Sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious, this easy to read book will not bore.