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Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy

Equity and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

Culturally sustaining pedagogy is a framework proposed by education scholar Django Paris in 2012, extending this atlas's own Culturally Relevant Pedagogy entry by arguing that schooling should not merely use a student's culture as a bridge into mainstream academic content but should actively sustain and extend students' cultural and linguistic practices, including practices, such as a heritage language or a community dialect, that schools have historically suppressed rather than merely overlooked.

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Central Question
Whether schooling should actively sustain and extend students' cultural and linguistic practices rather than only teach content that is merely relevant to those practices 1
Most Effective For
Multilingual and multiethnic classrooms where educators are asked to treat diverse languages and cultures as an asset rather than an obstacle to student success 1
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Informed By

Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy's own live entity-description: extending this atlas's own Culturally Relevant Pedagogy entry by arguing schooling should sustain, not just bridge from, a student's culture.

Sources
1. Culturally responsive teaching - Wikipedia
  • Historical context section
    He proposed that not only do educators need to teach course content in a way that is relevant to students cultural context, educators need to sustain the cultures of their student's communities.
  • Historical context section [most-effective-for]
    His aim was for educators to see diverse languages and cultures as an asset in the classroom instead of an obstacle that students needed to overcome to be successful.
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