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Culturally Responsive Teaching

The issue of cultural responsiveness in our classes .. Scholarly resources on the topic of Culturally Responsive Teaching Leadership approaches in education regarding cultural diversity and cultural responsiveness is closely associated with the need we feel as educators to prepare our students for the 21st century. Our learners need appropriate skills to function in their diverse cultural communities and beyond their cultural borders. (Banks, 2012) Title: Culturally responsive practices as whole school reform. Authors: V.M. Mayfield University of Colorado, Denver & Dorothy Garrison-Wade University of Colorado, Denver. Date of publication: 2015 Journal: Journal of Instructional Pedagogies. The purpose of the study is to outline successful culturally responsive practices in a Middle School in the US which appears to be closing academic opportunity gaps between White and Black students. Data collection techniques : observations, interviews, and focus gr...

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Promoting positive social change related to healthy development and learning ‘When I was getting my teacher training masters I was told, you’re a teacher, not a social worker. But there is a social work aspect to the job.’ (Ledra Sun teaches at Delair elementary school in New Jersey, US.) The power of motivation coming from the feeling that what you do as a teacher can make a difference in someone’s life is evident in teachers who claim to enjoy being in this profession. Indeed, It can be an inspiring profession, rather than simply a job, because you use certain tools along with a set of moral standards and values which can literally change people’s lives. Societies have the school systems they deserve. Emile Durkheim, the French Sociologist, argued that educational systems reproduce society’s values, norms and beliefs, and therefore he rejects the idea that education can transform society and resolve social problems.( Durkheim, 1897/1951: 372-373). In ess...

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