Cultural Diversity: Building Skills for Awareness, Understanding and Application

Cultural Diversity is written to assist students in developing skills in diversity and multiculturalism that can be applied to many contexts. This text was selected to emphasize mastering developmental framework for becoming aware of, understanding, and applying diversity-related concepts to a wide variety of situations. Diversity is broadly defined in the book and includes many types of differences, such as religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation, class, race, skin color and ethnicity. Types of diversity are infused throughout the book (rather than segmented into individual chapters) to illustrate multiple diversities. The process used in Cultural Diversity enables students to become more aware of their own values and beliefs. Thinking about diversity from a personal perspective gives the student ownership of the topic and is the cornerstone of increasing student awareness and understanding of other people and types of diversity.