- Title
- Appreciating diversity: transforming learning communities
- Creator
- Kirby, Dianne; Dluzewska, Teresa; Andrews, Luce
- Relation
- First Year in Higher Education Conference 2009 (FYHE 2009). First Year in Higher Education Conference 2009: Conference Proceedings (Townsville, Qld 1-3 July, 2009)
- Relation
- http://www.fyhe.com.au/past_papers/papers09/index.html
- Publisher
- QUT Publications
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- Diversity is an educational asset for all students. This paper outlines a diversity training initiative for rural and international students living in residential college at the University of Newcastle. Colleges provide an ideal setting for exploring models that promote inclusion and appreciation of difference, with potential to enrich first year experience, contribute to effective learning communities and build institutional culture. Students volunteered to participate in a program designed to explore awareness of cultural, gender, sexual and economic diversity and to develop knowledge and skills towards diversity competence and their workforce potential. Training balanced self reflection and peer connection based on both theories of intergroup contact and motivation for social justice. Workshop evaluations and pre and post learning measures were applied together with a follow up query about observed change. The benefits, limitation and flow-on effects of the project are reviewed in terms of future planning.
- Subject
- diversity; University of Newcastle, (NSW); international students; rural students
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/919902
- Identifier
- uon:9022
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781741072822
- Language
- eng
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