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标题：Increasing Positive Perceptions of Diversity for Religious Conservative Students
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作者：Alison Cook ; Ronda Roberts Callister
期刊名称：Creative Education
印刷版ISSN：2151-4755
电子版ISSN：2151-4771
出版年度：2010
卷号：1
期号：2
页码：93-100
DOI：10.4236/ce.2010.12014
出版社：Scientific Research Publishing
摘要：Evidence suggests that positive perceptions toward diversity enhance the potential group and organizational benefits resulting from diversity. Given the make-up of today’s organizations, encountering diversity has become the norm ra-ther than the exception. As such, it is becoming increasingly important to address diversity issues, and take steps to increase positive perceptions of diversity within the business classroom in order to carry that advantage into the workplace. Religious conservative students present a unique challenge to diversity education in that they likely hold value- laden attitudes that lack alignment with diversity principles. This study prescribes a scaffolding approach to increase positive perceptions of diversity within a classroom comprised predominantly of religious conservative students
关键词：Teaching Diversity; Positive Benefits of Diversity; Teaching Methods; Religious Conservative Students