Promoting diversity and social justice educating people from privileged groups

Summary: "Promoting Diversity and Social Justice provides theory, perspectives, and strategies that are useful for working with adults on diversity and social justice issues. 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 a resource for group facilitators, counselors, trainers in classrooms and workshops, professors, teachers, higher education personnel, community educators, and other diversity and equity education professionals."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9780761910800
ISBN: 0761910808
ISBN: 9780761910794
ISBN: 0761910794
ISBN: 1452221901 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781452221908 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 239 p.)
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electronic resource
Publisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:jan.13 CatBulkString:jan.03.13
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.