Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Lisa Scherff; Karen Spector

doi:10.5771/9781607094210

Summary

The authors in this edited volume reflect on their experiences with culturally relevant pedagogy_as students, as teachers, as researchers_and how these experiences were often at odds with their backgrounds and/or expectations. Each of the authors speaks to the complexity and difficulty in attempting to address students' cultures, create learning experiences with relevance to their lives and experiences, and enact pedagogies that promote academic achievement while honoring students. At the same time, every author shows the clashes and confrontations that can arise between and among students, teachers, parents, administrators, and educational policies.

Search publication

Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-1-60709-419-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-60709-421-0
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 195
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword: Looking for a Little Inspiration No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: Clashes and Confrontations with Culturally Relevant Pedagogy No access Pages 1 - 8
Opening Vignette: Recognizing Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Then and Now No access Pages 9 - 14
Chapter 1: Unpacking the Critical in Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: An Illustration Involving African Americans and Asian Americans No access Pages 15 - 34
Chapter 2: Race, Identity, and the Shredding of a District Survey: Following Children into Relevance in an Urban Elementary Classroom No access Pages 35 - 60
Chapter 3: The Central Paradox of Critical Pedagogy: Learning from Practice in an Urban "Last Chance" High School No access Pages 61 - 88
Chapter 4: From Understanding to Application: The Difficulty of Culturally Responsive Teaching as a Beginning English Teacher No access Pages 89 - 112
Vignette: Lotus: A Pedagogy of Listening No access Pages 113 - 118
Chapter 5: Reading Romeo and Juliet and Talking Sex: Critical Ideological Consciousness as Ethical Practice No access Pages 119 - 134
Chapter 6: "'Proper' Spanish Is a Waste of Time": Mexican-Origin Student Resistance to Learning Spanish as a Heritage Language No access Pages 135 - 164
Chapter 7: Bodies before Me No access Pages 165 - 180
Closing Vignette: The Distance of Formality: Working within (and through) Propriety No access Pages 181 - 186
1. A No access
2. B No access
3. C No access
4. D No access
5. E No access
6. F No access
7. G No access
8. H No access
9. I No access
10. J No access
11. K No access
12. L No access
13. M No access
14. N No access
15. O No access
16. P No access
17. R No access
18. S No access
19. T No access
20. U No access
21. V No access
22. W No access
23. Y No access
About the Editors No access Pages 191 - 192
About the Contributors No access Pages 193 - 195