Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Clashes and Confrontations [Paperback]

Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Clashes and Confrontations reveals many unexpected difficulties educators may face when attempting to create a culturally relevant classroom and curriculum. As educators, the importance of addressing cultural needs in our classrooms is often emphasized , but oftentimes it doesn't seem to work quite like we expect. Through the sharing of personal experiences and reflections of educators testing the theories behind culturally relevant pedagogy, this book provokes reflection on the process of creating and implementing more culturally relevant classrooms.Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Clashes and Confrontations is important, moral, relevant, and imminently readable. The concept of culturally relevant pedagogy is illuminated beautifully and clearly through chapters that alternate between thought-provoking academic discussions and heart-wrenching accounts of life in school. The questions this book raises, the awareness it fosters, will move us toward understanding ourselves as well as our students in ways that truly count.Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Clashes and Confrontations goes beyond where other texts on CRP tend to stop this volume takes an honest look back at the context and a priori assumptions that once ensconced CRP and help walk it forward into the new millennium by acknowledging that there is no longer 'a one theory into pedagogy fits all' for any classroom practice. These authors take the reader along with them as they brazenly reflect on their teaching journeys by admitting that their CRP praxes were laden with blind spots and show us through various situated practices how they have come to find deeper meaning and connection for students' lived experiencesin both their in-and-out of school contexts. Their chapters humbly offer that as cultures change over time and in context, that CRP must also honor the shifts. They leave us with hope, that we must listen and that as we listen to students' lived experiences, that CRP can fearló,