Free Download Diversity and Precarious Work During Socio-Economic Upheaval: Exploring the Missing Link
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1108832113 | 330 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
Existing research on the rise of precarious forms of employment has paid little attention to gender and diversity challenges. Yet precarious work has damaging effects for vulnerable demographics, with women, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities more considerably affected. This volume unpacks this research and offers insights into the role of organizations in fostering inclusive change. It draws an awareness of precarious work and diversity in organizations in three ways: 1. Uncovers and documents the variety of issues facing vulnerable demographic groups at work. 2. Promotes greater scholarship on the link between precarious work and diversity during economic and social upheaval. 3. Develops a research program and agenda that sheds light into new and important aspects of precarious work and diversity issues. A group of international scholars come together to discuss ways to address these challenges and offer a way forward for the future.

Free Download Accountability for Leaders Navigating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Released 2/2024
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Get ready for DEI success with this practical, straightforward course from DEI expert, Dr. Nika White. Find out how to drive meaningful change in DEI initiatives. Learn about the consequences of a lack of accountability in DEI efforts and the benefits of holding leaders accountable for DEI outcomes. Explore ways to build an accountability framework for DEI and learn the key components of an effective DEI accountability. Go over how to tailor accountability frameworks to organizational goals, as well as strategies for setting and tracking measurable DEI goals. Plus, discover how you can use data to assess outcomes and drive improvement.

Free Download Barbara Braid, "Unity in Diversity: Cultural Paradigm and Personal Identity"
English | ISBN: 1443845949 | 2013 | 175 pages | PDF | 685 KB
'Who am I?' The answer to this question is one of the most important issues a human being has to address in life. This is a question about possessing the continuous self, about the internal concept of oneself as an individual. The self-defining process, the discovery of the self takes place in the context of culture and society. The impact of social experience is felt across the whole life-span. Socialization exerted by parents, family and friends, acculturation to stereotypes and limited and limiting roles, inheritance of local identity and cultural myths, acknowledgement of the legacy of history contribute to the formation of poly-identity comprised of personal, racial, national, group or gender identities. Unity in Diversity. Cultural Paradigm and Personal Identity is a collection of essays by scholars of multicultural experience who, by employing different interpretative strategies indicative of their different backgrounds and interests, explore the issues of difference and otherness, inclusion/exclusion and of multiple ethnic, cultural, gender, and national identities. Offering literary, cultural, social, and historical perspectives the collection will be of interest to readers studying contemporary literature, (popular) culture, gender studies, sociology, and history.

Free Download Stem X: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at the Speed of Thought by Malcolm Allen
English | April 4, 2023 | ISBN: 1955884358 | 187 pages | PDF | 1.55 Mb
This is a book about the fascinating world of STEM subjects ― learning them, teaching them, and working in STEM jobs of the future. If you are a student, teacher, or parent, and you want to learn how STEM subjects affect our lives, this is the book to read. If you need to know how diversity, inclusion, equity, and access operate in today's classrooms and workspaces, you will find out in these pages.

Free Download Neroli Colvin, "Rurality, Diversity and Schooling: Multiculturalism in Regional Australia"
English | ISBN: 1350368288 | 2024 | 236 pages | EPUB, PDF | 348 KB + 10 MB
Migration and refugee settlement policies have brought significant demographic changes to some regional centres over the past two decades and this book focuses on one such centre, a mid-size town in New South Wales. Historically, social relations in rural settlements have been enacted primarily within a "white/black" (Anglo/Indigenous) binary but in recent years this town has become home to several hundred refugees from Africa, South-East Asia and the Middle East. Using interview, observational and documentary data, the book examines how multiculturalism is understood, valued and lived in the town's two public high schools. Schools are key sites for everyday interactions between people from diverse ethnic, cultural, language and religious backgrounds. Drawing on critical theories of discourse, space and race, the book examines a host of anxieties in the town and its schools about recent demographic changes revealing how notions of rurality, steeped in colonial narratives about European settlement, productivity and racial superiority, continue to shape how "difference" is perceived and experienced in regional communities.

Free Download Lisa M. Greenhill, "Navigating Diversity and Inclusion in Veterinary Medicine"
English | ISBN: 1557536368 | 2013 | 182 pages | EPUB | 636 KB
This book addresses the continued lack of the diversity in veterinary medicine, the least inclusive of all medical professions. Effective navigation of the complexity of diversity and inclusion in veterinary medicine requires clear enumeration, recognition, and understanding of key issues, challenges, and opportunities. In a nation with rapidly changing demographics, public needs and expectations of the veterinary profession will continue to evolve. A more diverse scientific workforce is required to feed the veterinary profession, not just for the purposed of equity, but as necessity for its sustainability and relevance.The book lays out the history of diversity in the veterinary profession, in the context of historical changes and actions within US society. An overview of selected strategies from dental, pharmacy, and (human) medical schools is then offered. The impact of social constructs on career interest development is explored using the examples of race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Practical strategies for attracting preschool through undergraduate students to careers in the veterinary profession are presented, as well as metrics and tools to assess the impact of diversity and inclusiveness strategies. A systems approach to diversity and inclusiveness in the veterinary profession is called for in a manner that frames barriers as opportunities for improvement and progress. There is much that needs to happen to achieve professional inclusiveness and cultural competency, but the path to achieving this is clear. System-wide commitment, planning, execution, and continuous assessment will position the profession to better suit the population of the nation and the world that will be served. This is book is a call to action for consistent championship and cohesive approaches, and it provides a road map to building a sustainably inclusive future.

Free Download J. Patrick Hornbeck II II, "More than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church: Inquiry, Thought, and Expression "
English | ISBN: 0823257630 | 2014 | 264 pages | PDF | 1340 KB
This volume, like its companion, Voices of Our Times, collects essays drawn from a series of public conferences held in autumn 2011 entitled "More than a Monologue." The series was the fruit of collaboration among four institutions of higher learning: two Catholic universities and two nondenominational divinity schools. The conferences aimed to raise awareness of and advance informed, compassionate, and dialogical conversation about issues of sexual diversity within the Catholic community, as well as in the broader civic worlds that the Catholic Church and Catholic people inhabit. They generated fresh, rich sets of scholarly and reflective contributions that promise to take forward the delicate work of theological-ethical and ecclesial development. Along with Voices of Our Times, this volume captures insights from the conferences and aims to foster what the Jesuit Superior General, Fr. Adolfo Nicolas, has called the "depth of thought and imagination" needed to engage effectively with complex realities, especially in areas marked by brokenness, pain, and the need for healing. The volumes will serve as vital resources for understanding and addressing better the too often fraught relations between LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) persons, their loved ones and allies, and the Catholic community.

Free Download Giuseppe Balirano, "Languaging Diversity: Identities, Genres, Discourses"
English | ISBN: 1443871222 | 2015 | 395 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Languaging Diversity: Identities, Genres, Discourses is a suggestive title for another book in the field of linguistics, but what does it actually mean? By choosing to speak of Languaging Diversity and not just of difference, otherness, varieties, multiplicity, hybridity or alterity, the editors cover the whole range of meanings in the entire field of diversity. They do not wish to limit themselves by using such specific words with increasingly specialised connotations as Alterity or Other, but rather to allow an eclectic range of perspectives and issues to come to the fore. This volume brings together some of the manifold discourses emerging as bearers of the values of alterity, by exploring the thorny relationship between Language and Diversity. Drawing on the crucial assumption that speakers identities are dynamically negotiated as discourse unfolds, Languaging Diversity explores the wide theme of identity in discourse, an area of investigation which has become increasingly popular in recent years.

Free Download Edward Demenchonok, "Intercultural Dialogue: In Search of Harmony in Diversity"
English | ISBN: 1443863629 | 2014 | 410 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Intercultural Dialogue: In Search of Harmony in Diversity offers a philosophical analysis of the issues surrounding cultural diversity and dialogical relationships among cultures as an alternative to "culture wars" and hegemonic globalization. First, it examines the ideas of dialogue and harmony as expressed in Daoism, Confucianism, Indian, and Ancient Greek philosophical traditions, as well as in contemporary European and Latin-American philosophies. These categories are viewed in their normative role in a conflicted world. Second, it asserts that intercultural dialogue should have inter-philosophical global dialogue as its epistemological and ontological foundation. Drawing on the works of Laozi, Confucius, Plato, Kant, Gandhi, and Mikhail Bakhtin, among others, the book addresses the importance of intercultural philosophical dialogue and "the globalization of philosophy." It also examines obstacles to its realization, such as "philosophical coloniality" and the asymmetries of power. Third, dialogue among the various world philosophies suggests a broad concept of philosophy and of its mission in the world. Intercultural philosophy elaborates on the conceptualization of philosophy as culturally embedded, and on a project of the intercultural transformation of philosophy. Attention is paid to dialogic philosophy, particularly Bakhtin's dialoguism and its contemporary elaboration in the phenomenology of indirect speech, "synergic anthropology," and the theory of transculture. The principles of dialogic philosophy can serve as a theoretical basis of a new, dialogic civilization. Finally, the book offers a critical analysis of social and global problems. Their possible solutions require a more dialogically oriented and humane transformation of society. Thus, it is necessary to go beyond instrumental rationality and to be open for cross-cultural and inter-religious dialogue and ethics of co-responsibility, as well as to strengthen international law and institutions, aiming for a gradual realization of the ideal of a cosmopolitan order of law and peace.

Free Download Steve Longenecker, "Gettysburg Religion: Refinement, Diversity, and Race in the Antebellum and Civil War Border North "
English | ISBN: 0823255190 | 2014 | 264 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
In the borderland between freedom and slavery, Gettysburg remains among the most legendary Civil War landmarks. A century and a half after the great battle, Cemetery Hill, the Seminary and its ridge, and the Peach Orchard remain powerful memories for their embodiment of the small-town North and their ability to touch themes vital to nineteenth-century religion. During this period, three patterns became particularly prominent: refinement, diversity, and war. In Gettysburg Religion, author Steve Longenecker explores the religious history of antebellum and Civil War-era Gettysburg, shedding light on the remarkable diversity of American religion and the intricate ways it interacted with the broader culture. Longenecker argues that Gettysburg religion revealed much about larger American society and about how trends in the Border North mirrored national developments. In many ways, Gettysburg and its surrounding Border North religion belonged to the future and signaled a coming pattern for modern America.