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Gloria Ladson-Billings

Equity and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Theorists

American education scholar, Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who developed and popularized the framework of culturally relevant pedagogy. Her 1995 article 'Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy' argued that instruction should treat a student's own culture as a strength to build on rather than something to assimilate away, pursuing academic success, cultural competence and critical consciousness together. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1947 1
Nationality / Culture
American 1
Defining Contribution
Introduced culturally relevant pedagogy in 1995, establishing the framework this atlas's Culturally Relevant Pedagogy approach entity describes. 1
Notable Work
Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (1995) 1
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Gloria Ladson-Billings was the Kellner Family Distinguished Professor of Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the first Black woman tenured as a professor in its School of Education.

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Ladson-Billings is Professor Emerita and formerly the Kellner Family Distinguished Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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