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Resources Library - Education

As part of our commitment to provide information, we continue to collect and collate public materials on culture, unconscious bias, and other aspects of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).

Below, you'll find resources such as research papers, books, and videos that can assist you in your learning journey. Simply click on the sector relevant to you and explore the various options. If you have additional well-vetted public materials, you'd like to suggest we add, feel free to forward the links to culture@nbmc-cmnb.ca for consideration.

Policing a Multicultural Society

This book based on the context of Australian police racism offers a new conceptualization of police culture and reveals how structural change does not always result to cultural change in the context of reform.

Multicultural Law Enforcement (Pearson Higher Ed)

This book addresses topics of key concern to criminal justice and emergency service professionals, including cultural awareness, prejudice, bias, racial profiling, hate and bias crimes, and cross-cultural communication. It also covers issues of workforce diversity such as the recruitment and retention of minorities.

Books

Volunteering and Intercultural Communication – Intercultural Communication Core Theories, Issues and Concepts by Michael W. Kramer

This book speaks o the challenges of volunteering in an environment with languages differences and cultural differences. Building off of theories and concepts in intercultural communication, it offers strategies to overcome these challenges in the volunteer setting.

Cultural chauvinism : intercultural communication and the politics of superiority

This book critiques the notion of ‘Western values’ and their centrality in international relations and diplomacy. By analyzing the Western cultural groups sense of superiority over others, the author is able to explore how the basis of the concept of cultural chauvinism is inherently flawed.

Hofstede, Geert H. (2005) Cultures and organizations: software of the mind.

This seminal book systematically describes and organization major cultural differences that can arise and how they take form in a cultures way of organizing.

Videos

Lorenzo, Rocio. (2017). How diversity makes teams more innovative.

A Ted Talk which delves into the topic of diversity in the workplace, and makes reference to a study of 171 companies showed that “more diverse companies are simply more innovative,” but only with 20% or more diverse employees.

Baum, Noa. (2018). Beyond labels: Bridging differences through storytelling.

When Israeli-born Noa Baum moved to the U.S. and unexpectedly formed a friendship with a Palestinian woman, she realized the importance of listening to the story of the “other” – even if that other is the enemy.

Developing intercultural awareness : a cross-cultural training handbook (Kohls, L. Robert., and John M. Knight.)

This book is a resource for intercultural educators and trainers to expand their resources on cross-cultural values, exercises and situational examples for training purposes.

The diversity training handbook : a practical guide to understanding & changing attitudes (Clements, Phillip and John Jones. Kogan Page, 2008)

This book provides guidelines for managing prejudice and stereotyping in the workplace. The authors detail how to develop a diversity training program that can break down unconscious bias and change attitudes.

Interculture TV

A German based TV show which is centered around discussions of cross-cultural living, communication and community.

UNESCO Crossings Institute for Conflict-Sensitive Reporting and Intercultural Dialogue, University of Oregon

This podcast brings together 2 different pursuits: intercultural and inter-religious dialogue on the one hand and conflict-sensitive journalism on the other. They produce a series of podcasts, including “Understanding conflict-sensitive reporting practices in Kenya.

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