ABSTRACT
This chapter is a reflection on three years one professor spent teaching at a remarkably diverse university on the culturally rich Hawaiian island of Oahu. Lacking a diverse background himself, the professor decided to let cultural diversity teach itself using a social contagion approach, particularly in graduate-level courses. This chapter reports on the tactics used to encourage the social construction of diversity learning and the perspectives of four former graduate students who played an integral role in the process. Opportunities and challenges associated with this pedagogical approach are included in the discussion.
