Book description
Intergroup dialogue promotes student engagement across cultural and
social divides on college campuses through a face-to-face, interactive,
and facilitated learning experience that brings together twelve to
eighteen students from two or more social identity groups over a
sustained period of time. Students in intergroup dialogue explore
commonalities and differences; examine the nature and impact of
discrimination, power, and privilege; and find ways of working together
toward greater inclusion, equality, and social justice.
Intergroup dialogue is offered as a cocurricular activity on some
campuses and as a course or part of a course on others. The practice
of intergroup dialogue is considered a substantive and meaningful
avenue for preparing college graduates with the knowledge, commitment,
and skills essential for living and working in a diverse yet socially
stratified society. The research evidence supports the promise of
intergroup dialogues to meet its educational goals?consciousness
raising, building relationships across differences and conflicts, and
strengthening individual and collective capacities to promote social justice.
This volume outlines the theory, practice, and research on intergroup
dialogue. It also offers educational resources to support the practice
of intergroup dialogue. Addressing faculty, administrators, student
affairs personnel, students, and practitioners, this volume is a
useful resource for anyone implementing intergroup dialogues in higher education.
This is the 4th issue of the 32nd volume of the Jossey-Bass report
series
ASHE Higher Education Report Series
. Each monograph in the series is the definitive analysis of a
tough higher education problem, based on thorough research of
pertinent literature and institutional experiences. Topics are
identified by a national survey. Noted practitioners and scholars are
then commissioned to write the reports, with experts providing
critical reviews of each manuscript before publication.
XIMENA ZÚNIGA is an associate professor affiliated
with the social justice education concentration in the Department of
Student Development and Pupil Personnel Services, School of Education,
University of Massachusetts Amherst.
BIREN (RATNESH) A. NAGDA is associate professor of social work
and director of the Intergroup Dialogue, Education and Action (IDEA)
Center at the University of Washington.
MARK CHESLER is a professor of sociology at the University of
Michigan and executive director of Community Resources Ltd. in Ann Arbor.
ADENA CYTRON-WALKER is a practitioner of intergroup dialogue
and has actively contributed to the development of this practice over
the past eight years.
