The passion for minority rights that she showed from Princeton onward is scarcely reflected in a review of her judicial decisions. So which way would she lean on the Supreme Court? More…
Monthly Archive for May, 2009
The first issue of Volume 9 of The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations has been published.
Volume 9, Number 1 contains:
- Host Students’ Perspectives on Crosscultural Student Teaching Experiences by Abalo Adewui.
- Education of Women for Empowerment in Nigeria by Roseline E. Tawo, Daniel Denga and Hannah M. Denga.
- Educating for Global Citizenship in the New Millennium by Leo Sandy and Scott Meyer.
- Social Inclusion in Australia: Resource Allocation, Morality and Racism by Lou Wilson.
- Analyzing Diversity in Journalism Instruction: A Critical Race Theory Case Study by Joshua Hoops.
- Living in the Global Village: Cultural Membership and the Value of Diversity by Ashwani Peetush.
- Using or Abusing the TRC? Efforts to Transform a South African University by Vivian de Klerk.
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Common Ground Publishing has now launched the new imprint On Diversity.
There is a selection of books already published and available in the bookstore:
- The Sociality of Refugee Healing: In Dialogue with Southern Sudanese Refugees Resettling in Australia - Towards A Social Model of Healing by Dr Peter Westoby
- Youth Identity and Migration: Culture, Values and Social Connectedness edited by Fethi Mansouri
You can now submit proposals or completed manuscript submissions of:
- individually and jointly authored books;
- edited collections addressing a clear, intellectually challenging theme;
- collections of papers published in The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations.
Books should be between 30,000 words and 150,000 words in length. They will be published simultaneously in print and electronic formats.
A U.S. National Science Foundation program dedicated to increasing the number of science and engineering Ph.D.s earned by members of underrepresented minority groups is now bearing fruit, according to a news note in the 24 April 2009 issue of Science magazine.
At 66 of the 79 U.S. universities participating in the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program, the annual number of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) doctoral degrees awarded to minority students increased by 33.9% from 2001 to 2008. The gains were even more remarkable among the natural sciences and engineering fields, where Ph.D.’s for minorities increased by 50%.
The Sociality of Refugee Healing: In Dialogue with Southern Sudanese Refugees Resettling in Australia - Towards A Social Model of Healing by Dr Peter Westoby has now been published.
This beautifully written book represents a journey. In response to a significant challenge from Sudanese community leaders, Peter Westoby embarked on a vibrant intellectual quest. In the process he has carved out new ways of understanding experiences of distress and healing. The Sociality of Refugee Healing will be an invaluable companion for practitioners, policy makers and anyone who cares about communities who have endured hardship.
David Denborough
Dulwich Centre, Adelaide, Author of ‘Collective narrative practice: responding to individuals, groups and communities who have experienced trauma’
This book proposes a socially-oriented model of healing, which augurs a fundamental shift in thinking about refugee settlement: instead of focusing on the past experiences of refugees it is the present world and context of settlement that should be the primary focus for healing work. This book, steeped in the author’s experience and extensive research, boldly and convincingly proposes a paradigmatic shift in the theory and practice of working with refugees. As such, the book provides an indispensible contribution to existing debates about refugee settlement and charts new ground for future inquiry.
Zlatko Skrbis
Professor of Sociology, The University of Queensland Continue reading ‘The Sociality of Refugee Healing’