Culturally relevant teaching, also called culturally appropriate, culturally congruent, culturally responsive or culturally compatible teaching, is instruction that uses students' own culture as a resource for learning rather than asking students to set it aside and assimilate to the school's culture. Developed initially around the experience of African American students in primary and secondary schools in the United States, it treats student culture as a strength that can help students succeed in critical thinking and work toward social change, and later research has extended the approach to other racial and ethnic backgrounds, other countries and other age groups.
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Origin YearWikipedia dates the term's popularization only to the early 1990s, not a specific year; 1990 marks the start of that decade as the earliest defensible reading, not a precise founding date. Core ClaimCulturally relevant teaching treats students' own culture as a strength that supports critical thinking and social change, rather than asking students to set that culture aside to assimilate to school culture. 1 Classification
Education LevelUpper Secondary Education (ISCED 3) 1 FAQs
How does culturally sustaining pedagogy differ from culturally relevant teaching?
It sets an explicit goal of sustaining students' languages and cultures rather than only making teaching relevant to them.
In a 2012 article in Educational Researcher, Django Paris proposed culturally sustaining pedagogy as an alternative to the terms relevant and responsive, which he argued do not explicitly enough support the cultural and linguistic plurality of a changing society. Its explicit goal is supporting multilingualism and multiculturalism in practice and perspective for students and teachers. It seeks to perpetuate and foster, which is to say sustain, linguistic, literate and cultural pluralism as part of the democratic project of schooling.
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Culturally relevant teaching, also known as culturally appropriate, culturally congruent, culturally responsive, or culturally compatible teaching, is instruction that uses student culture to aid instruction.
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Culturally relevant teaching was made popular by Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings in the early 1990s.
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Developed initially around the experience of African American students in primary and secondary schools in the United States, it treats student culture as a strength that can help students succeed in critical thinking and work toward social change, and later research has extended the approach to other racial and ethnic backgrounds, other countries and other age groups.
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Rather than expecting to African-American students to assimilate to a school culture, it treats student culture as a strength that can help them succeed in critical thinking and work for social change.
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Culturally relevant teaching, also known as culturally appropriate, culturally congruent, culturally responsive, or culturally compatible teaching, is instruction that uses student culture to aid instruction.
Developed By: Gloria Ladson-Billings, sections of the article
Culturally relevant teaching was made popular by Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings in the early 1990s.
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