CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Marilyn Loden, the creator of the model, saw the need for a tool that would help people better understand how group-based differences contribute to people’s social identities.

Detailed explanation-2: -N.B. The original Diversity Wheel was introduced in Marilyn Loden and Judy Rosener’s book entitled “Workforce America! Managing Employee Diversity as a Vital Resource” (1991).

Detailed explanation-3: -The Diversity Wheel gives an overview of the dimensions of diversity that are present and active in one’s workplace or environment. It consists of four layers of diversity (personality, internal, external and organisational levels) through which stimuli, information and experience are processed by all of us.

Detailed explanation-4: -The above wheel of diversity has been adapted from Marilyn Loden’s Implementing Diversity. The wheel was created to help ‘initiate conversations about similarities and differences that cross societal and cultural boundaries.