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11%OFFSusan E. Chase - Learning to Speak, Learning to Listen: How Diversity Works on Campus - 9780801476211 - V9780801476211
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Learning to Speak, Learning to Listen: How Diversity Works on Campus

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Description for Learning to Speak, Learning to Listen: How Diversity Works on Campus Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8. BIC Classification: JNFR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801476211
SKU
V9780801476211
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About Susan E. Chase
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.

Reviews for Learning to Speak, Learning to Listen: How Diversity Works on Campus
"Susan E. Chase's focus on the narrative environment and the impact it has on the way students, especially, learn to speak and listen about diversity is a fresh perspective and an important reminder to all that context matters, and what we say and do (our narrative practices) shape and are shaped by it. As faculty and administrators, we have a ... Read more

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