Publication Date
6-1-1995
Abstract
During the past year, a colleague and I were asked to develop and mentor a series of workshops for administrators of a school district concerned with public perceptions of a lack of sensitivity to multicultural issues. One of the hypotheses that we returned to regularly was that cultural stereotypes derive from a lack of intimacy; when we open ourselves in the at tempt to experience as others experience, stereotypes lose their objectifying power. Over the course of those workshops, all administrators (from superintendent to building-level assistant principals) demonstrated an incredible willingness to take some significant risks — to share personal insights and values with each other, to open themselves to peer-critique, to grapple with troubling aspects of the images and discourse that emerged at several points.
Recommended Citation
Dynak, D. (1995). First Things First. Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts, 35 (5). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/reading_horizons/vol35/iss5/1
