Product Description
Are you creating Fish Out of Water in your environment?
Oftentimes a group demands compliance with cultural codes and behavioral expectations that are never taught. Instead, the standards of this hidden curriculum are used to justify punishing, marginalizing, and excluding children and adults from the dominant culture. This book focuses on the need for and the strategies to create inclusive classrooms and organizations.
What do you do when you are the one who doesn’t fit in?
Fish Out of Water are those who don’t fit in the mainstream culture because they are too different from the dominant groups. This book offers tools for decoding cultures—moving from code switching to code sharing. Included are:
- Compelling portraits of fish out of water who have learned to survive and thrive in schools and other organizations
- Strategies for working with children who are targeted and bullied because they are different
For every one who has been or knows how it feels to be a Fish Out of Water, this book will help you to flourish where you are, mentor others who are different, and manage the dynamics of difference as you create a culturally proficient organization.
(2) Explicitly addresses the tools of code-switching -- an important survival mechanism for managing the dynamics of difference -- in the context of culturally-proficient organization.
(3) Addresses the needs of both adults and children who don't fit the norms of the dominant culture.
(4) Includes compelling vignettes that chronicle the lives and experiences of fish out of water who have learned to survive and thrive in schools and other organizations.
(5) Each chapter includes self-assessments and personal inventories
