Creating Cultural Sustenance in the Classroom: A Review of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World
Creating Cultural Sustenance in the Classroom: A Review of
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World
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在课堂上创造文化维持:文化维持教学法回顾:在不断变化的世界中为正义而教学
DOI:
10.1002/jaal.956
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发表时间:
2017
影响因子:
0.9
通讯作者:
H. Alim
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文献类型:
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作者:
Django Paris;H. Alim
Educational environments that exist in pluralistic societies today prove to offer students little purpose to attend school and limited support in becoming successful. The lack of understanding the needs of students, along with preconceived notions of cultures and identities of communities of colour have resulted in a partial eradication of student cultures, and the creation of vulnerable, stigmatized, and marginalized student populations. The “divide that exists between many educational institutions and the students they are supposed to serve” (Paris & Alim, 2017, p. 95) only continues to grow because students do not feel that their identities are affirmed through the curriculum taught; it is irrelevant, impractical and exclusionary to their backgrounds, experiences, and lives. Identifying the various challenges that students of colour are faced with in schools is the first step towards finding a possible solution to address those issues and concerns. Several educators and researchers, under the editorial guide of Paris and Alim (2017), tackle the history of pathologizing students — the silencing and ignoring their voices, the overrepresentation of white teachers in the classroom, and the numerous discourses related to teaching and diversity — to offer a possible solution through the implementation of culturally sustaining pedagogies (CSP). Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World begins with the editors explaining the way in which the book came together and identifying the contributors to the volume. Following this, the introductory chapter provides a definition of CSP, explains its meaning and importance, and identifies the goal of the book, which according to the editors involves