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Beyond the Binary: Sophisticating Diversity Climate Considerations and Assessments

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The study of diversity climates is as complicated as the study of diversity itself. Despite the call for more sophisticated and multi-dimensional approaches to the study of diversity climates, few empirical efforts have been designed to do so, as the literature remains replete with work bifurcating and labeling diversity climates as positive or negative, productive or unproductive. Results from this study provide empirical support that worldview climate is indeed multi-dimensional, comprised of three distinctive, yet overlapping dimensions: productive, unproductive, and provocative. Implications for both scholars and practitioners, as well as directions for future research are discussed.

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  1. Department of Educational Leadership, Mississippi State University, 245 Allen Hall, Mailstop 9698, Mississippi State, MS, 39762, USA

    Christa E. Winkler

  2. Department of Educational Studies, The Ohio State University, 310-G Ramseyer Hall, 29 W Woodruff Ave, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    Matthew J. Mayhew

  3. Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development, North Carolina State University, 300N Poe Hall, 2310 Stinson Drive, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA

    Alyssa N. Rockenbach

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Winkler, C.E., Mayhew, M.J. & Rockenbach, A.N. Beyond the Binary: Sophisticating Diversity Climate Considerations and Assessments. Res High Educ 62, 556–568 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-020-09607-7

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