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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"diversity issues"”.
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Embedding Racial And Gender Diversity In State Mandated Common Assessments: A Policy Advocacy Document
… focuses on past and current racial and gender diversity issues in the United States. It highlights the need for embedding past and current racial and gender diversity issues in the United States in the everyday curriculum. Additionally, this document discusses the positive impact this policy …
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Embedding Diversity Into The Curriculum: Facilitating Challenging Conversations
… need to embed past and current racial and gender diversity issues into the everyday curriculum in an effort to have a positive impact on students’ social-emotional learning skills. The current curriculum has limited racial and no gender diversity. Students can go from Kindergarten to eighth grade …
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The Effects of Multicultural Diversity Training on the Development of a Multicultural Perspective in Preservice Teachers
… to investigate the effects of a multicultural diversity workshop in helping preservice teachers to develop a multicultural perspective and to determine whether any significant differences existed for the preservice teachers in terms of their gender, age, geographic background, and preferred …
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An Examination Of A Social And Emotional Learning Program And Implications For Diversity Development
… need when encountering racial and gender-diverse issues in their everyday lives. Both quantitative and qualitative methods (such as surveys; interviews with teachers, social workers, and administrators; and classroom observations) were used when collecting data throughout the research. It was …
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Diversity in the fitness industry : a cross-case comparison /
… which two fitness facilities were accommodating diversity with respect to age, ethnicity, gender, social class, sex-role socialization, and persons with a disability among both members and staflf. The sites were purposely chosen in a large city and a smaller city in order to provide as …
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Finding a Comfortable Fit: Practitioners’ Understanding of the Sociopolitical Context and its Role in Psychotherapy.
… largely limited to practitioners’ addressing diversity issues in therapy. Relevant studies have shown both trainees and qualified practitioners experience anxiety and discomfort associated with uncertainties about effectively incorporating diversity and sociopolitical context. Although various …
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The Examination of the School Psychology Multicultural Competence Scale
… were asked about coursework in multicultural and diversity issues and practicum experiences with culturally and linguistically diverse populations. The results of the factor analysis demonstrated that a four factor solution best fit the data obtained from the sample of graduate students who …
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A qualitative single case study exploring Black male student self-efficacy at a private faith-based Massachusetts high school.
… private schools have negative experiences with diversity issues. As a result of these findings, I recommended professional development for high school teachers, targeted strategies to increase student and faculty diversity for high school administrators, active engagement in their students’ …
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Contributions of women managers to the UK construction industry
… of skilled labour and manage equality and diversity issues in construction.Taking both of these problems into account, there is a need for a 'two-way' dialoguebetween women and the construction industry to increase women's representation whilebenefiting the construction industry through …
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Providing Co-Curricular Support: A Multi-Case Study of Engineering Student Support Centers
In response to the student retention and diversity issues that have been persistent in undergraduate engineering education, many colleges have developed Engineering Student Support Centers (ESSCs) such as Minority Engineering Programs (MEPs) and Women in Engineering Programs (WEPs). ESSCs provide …
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Gauging The Outcomes of Organizational Diversity Implementations: The Intersection of Attitudes, Awareness and Behavior
… the attitudinal and behavioral outcomes from diversity education implementations in both a corporate and an academic institution. At each site, I explored whether attitudinal changes had occurred as a result of the diversity programs conducted there. At both sites, I found that attitudes …
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An investigation into the impact of diversity training on a community service organisation
… of this study was to investigate the impact of diversity training in a Community Service Organisation in Cape Town. The impact of such training is gauged / measured by monitoring staff's perceptions towards training. A strategic sample of 31 staff was chosen, ranging across different race groups …
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Diversity Team Building: Impact on Virtual Team Performance
<p>Although organizations have addressed diversity issues at the organizational-level with resulting positive employee outcomes, lack of scholarly attention to team-level interventions remain. Team-level interventions would benefit organizations more directly as they address issues directly related …
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Faculty of Color at the Kentucky Community and Technical College System: A Survey of Ethnic Diversity, Geographic Location, and Personal Perspectives
… have to work especially hard to ensure faculty diversity. Despite efforts to increase the number of faculty of color in Kentucky's statewide system of community colleges, minority representation remains proportionally low, especially on the state's rural college campuses. The purpose of this …
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A Survey of Health Care Personnel's Perceptions Toward Diversity in the Workplace
<p>The purpose of this study was to explore the diversity climate in a large teaching military hospital by assessing the perceptions of employees regarding the organizational climate, including aspects of the climate related to ethnicity, gender, age, physical ability, sexual orientation, and job …
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Big City
… people in the city” are used to explore race and diversity issues in dialogue and thought only. And vignettes entitled “Why is the city beautiful?” set out to give different perspectives on what creates a sense of aesthetics in such an unnatural environment. The fourth section of the book is …