ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights several theoretical and practice-based paradigms that aim to introduce students and practitioners to the range of emerging trends, issues, and concerns relating to diversity in the workforce. Diversity Intelligence prepares organizational leaders to value differences between individuals in the workplace, and it provides organizational leaders with a chance to rethink their behavior and the actions they have been using to guide their diverse employees, and implement new strategies as needed. V. Sheared's Polyrhythmic Realities Framework was introduced in the discipline of adult education to emphasize the adversities related to students' life encounters as they relate to the "intersection of race, gender, and class". Derived from the critical theory school of thought, Marilyn Y. Byrd and Chaunda Scott introduced the four-step Critical Racism Pedagogy Model to highlight its utility in guiding constructive dialogue on various forms of racism.
