title: Creating community: offering a liberation pedagogical model to facilitate diversity conversations in MFT graduate classrooms.
abstract: Creating a safe place for open classroom engagement on topics of multiculturalism and diversity requires intentionality and honesty. Unless all, professor and students alike, feel safe talking about related issues, the attempt will result in a politically correct exercise in futility. This article focuses on how intentional pedagogical efforts can create a classroom environment conducive to therapeutic self-reflection and result in personal and professional transformation. Offerings include personal reflections, theoretical and pedagogical ideologies and practices, a classroom paradigm as exemplar, critical redefinitions, a survey of other pedagogical endeavors, a template for multicultural instruction, and recommendations.
authors.affiliation: Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. nixond@nova.edu
authors.forename: Debra Harris
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Nixon
authors.forename: Debra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marcelle-Coney
authors.forename: Maru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Torres-Greggory
authors.forename: Edith
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Huntley
authors.forename: Carlyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jacques
authors.forename: Maud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pasquet
authors.forename: Regina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ravachi
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D004493:Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004500:Education, Graduate; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000193:education*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D012932:Social Facilitation