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Building Multicultural Residential Communities: A Model for Training Student Staff
Author(s) -
Petryk Taryn,
Thompson Monita C.,
Boynton Trelawny
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
new directions for student services
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0695
pISSN - 0164-7970
DOI - 10.1002/ss.20070
Subject(s) - multiculturalism , demographics , diversity (politics) , intervention (counseling) , multicultural education , psychology , medical education , training (meteorology) , pedagogy , identity (music) , cultural diversity , sociology , medicine , geography , physics , demography , meteorology , anthropology , acoustics , psychiatry
The growing diversity and changing demographics within the United States increases the importance of students developing skills to engage across identity difference. The purpose of this chapter is to describe how a pre‐employment course for student staff members is used as a multicultural intervention training to provide students with the knowledge and skills to create and facilitate an inclusive, multicultural community in residential communities.