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Discourse on Diversity - A Qualitative Study of a College Communication Course in Multiculturalism

Discourse on Diversity - A Qualitative Study of a College Communication Course in Multiculturalism

Gormley, Mary

Paperback

General Education

ISBN10: 3836437120
ISBN13: 9783836437127
Publisher: Vdm Verlag
Published: Apr 11 2008
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
How transformative can education be? Does talking about difference lead to accepting difference? The result of a semester long participant-observation study of an upper level Communication Studies course on multiculturalism, this study investigates and evaluates the efforts that students undertake with regard to multiculturalism, collaboration, and social change. Through analysis of students' writing and mapping, of class discussion, and of course structure, the study illustrates the ways that spatial rhetorics inform and influence the discursive practices of students working towards accepting differences and reaching consensus while in the process of planning a community service project. Students' struggles to embrace difference and multiculturalism as both theory and practice are presented in the students' own words. This book is geared toward researchers and educators in Composition and Rhetoric, Multiculturalism, and Service-Learning.

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