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What Materials Will We Use?


The Burlington Times-News

This source will be used throughout the semester acquaint students with issues of culture and diversity as they express themselves in the local community.


The Diversity Wheel created by Marilyn Loden and published in Loden, M. (1996). Implementing Diversity. New York: McGraw Hill.

The Diversity Wheel provides a summary framework that will assist students in recognizing and understanding human difference throughout the course.  This framework lends itself to considering each element independently as well as the interaction of the various elements with one another.

 

Homan, M.  (2008). Promoting community change.  Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole.

The discussion of the systems perspective in this book will be used to help students understand the multiple levels of interaction between individuals and their environments and the importance of social change as a fundamental aspect and core principle of the human service field.

 

Martin, M.E. (2011). Introduction to human services: Through the eyes of practice settings.  New York: Allyn & Bacon.

This book will serve as the primary text in two of the three sections of HSS 111 in Fall 2011.  The book is structured in such a way that various “special populations” in the human services are considered and various multicultural issues are also considered within these groups.  (For example, the chapter on child welfare addresses issues frequently encountered within the child welfare system by gay and lesbian parents.) The book also provides the basics of the strengths-based approach, systems theory, and evidence-based practice which are core principles of the course that will also help to inform students’ understanding of diversity.  Finally, the text also focuses, albeit somewhat briefly, on international human service delivery.


Rosenblum, K.E. & Travis, T. (2012).  The meaning of difference: American constructions of race, sex and gender, social class, sexual orientation, and disability.  New York: McGraw Hill.

The essays and readings in this book offer a conceptual framework for understanding how difference is constructed in the culture of the United States.  In addition it provides frameworks for understanding the commonalities across difference.   Readings from this source will be used to flesh out students understanding of the ideas represented in the Diversity Wheel.

 

Service-Learning Project

The students’ service-learning experiences will serve as a primary text for the course.  Service-learning settings for Fall 2011 have been selected for their potential in helping students understand specific aspects of human difference.  These settings will include services for older adults, services related to homelessness, youth development programs, and services for people with disabilities. 

 

Shor, I. (1992). Empowering education:  Critical teaching for social change.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

In this book Ira Shor provides a model for teaching that calls upon deep student engagement, the fostering of astute critical thinking skills, and a more democratic classroom philosophy that both respects and challenges the knowledge, histories, and perspectives that students bring to the classroom dialogue.

 

Woodside, M. & McClam.  (2011). An introduction to human services.  Belmont, CA:  Brooks/Cole.

This text will be used in one of the three sections of HSS 111 in Fall 2011.  Particular strengths of this text are its extensive use of case studies and the inclusion of practitioner voices and perspectives throughout the text.  Issues of diversity, cultural sensitivity, and the ethical issues involved in cross-cultural human service work are included in the text.

DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.