Promoting Diversity and Social Justice - Educating People From Privileged Groups

Klappentext This book offers educational and psychological perspectives to inform practice and increase options in addressing conflict situations. The first part of the book helps the educator understand the reasons for resistance and ways to prevent it. The second part explains how educators motivate dominant groups to support social justice. This book is an excellent resource for group facilitators, counselors, trainers in classrooms and workshops, professors, teachers, higher education personnel, community educators, and other professionals involved with educating others about diversity and equity. Zusammenfassung Goodman! an educator who has worked in several institutions! explains how others of her profession can work with adults on issues of diversity and social justice issues. She provides theory! perspectives! and strategies to help nudge dominant groups into supporting justice for others. Her suggestion Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction About Privileged Groups Perspectives on Individual Change and Development Understanding Resistance Preventing and Reducing Resistance The Costs of Oppression to People from Privileged Groups Why People from Privileged Groups Support Social Justice Developing and Enlisting Support for Social Justice Issues for Educators Hope and Possibilities

Product details

• Authors: Diane J. Goodman
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2000
• EAN: 9780761910794
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-1079-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Winter Roundtable Series; Roundtable Series on Psycholog; Winter Roundtable Series (Formerly: Roundtable Series on Psychology & Education); Roundtable Series on Psycholog; Winter Roundtable Series (Form
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sozialpsychologie, Soziale Diskriminierung und Gleichbehandlung, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations