The "Other" Within: Multiple Selves Making a World of Difference

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  • Pamela Cooper-White

Abstract

Diversity challenges us by forcing us into encounters with the Other, the not-like-me/not-like-us. Educating leaders for effective collaboration in diverse settings means leading them through a process of de-centering from their "comfort zones" and helping them stretch to embrace difference. Such education mustconsider not only difference, but also inequality of power - particularly in terms of entrenched social structures that silently reinforce unearned privilege.

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Volume 29: Forming Religious Leaders In and For a Diverse World - 2009

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