Culture, relevance, and schooling : exploring uncommon ground

Scherff, Lisa, 1968- (Added Author). Spector, Karen. (Added Author).

Summary: Annotation In Culture, Relevance, and Schooling: Exploring Uncommon Ground, Lisa Scherff, Karen Spector, and the contributing authors conceive of culturally relevant and critically minded pedagogies in terms of opening up new spatial, discursive, and/or embodied learning terrains. Readers will traverse multiple landscapes and look into a variety of spaces where attempts to tear down or build up pedagogical borders based upon socially-just design are underway. In disciplines ranging from elementary science, to high school English, to college kinesiology, the contributors to this volume describe their attempts to remake schooling in ways that bring hope and dignity to their participants.

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ISBN: 9781607098881
ISBN: 1607098881
ISBN: 9781607098898
ISBN: 160709889X
ISBN: 9781607098904
ISBN: 1607098903
Physical Description: print
xiii, 161 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, ©2011.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Foreword : The legitimacy of culturally relevant pedagogy : resolved or unresolved / Alfred W. Tatum -- Introduction : Spatial, discursive, and embodied borders / Karen Spector and Lisa Scherff -- Vignette : Making culture visible through experience and understanding / Kenan L. Metzger -- Collective cultural relevancy through hybrid communities of practice / Angela Calabrese Barton and Corey Drake -- Seeing relevance : using photography to understand how school, curricula, and pedagogies matter to urban youth / Kristien Zenkov -- Expanding notions of culturally responsive education with urban native youth : culturally relevant pedagogy for equity and social justice / Dorothy E. Aguilera-Black Bear -- Weaving spiritualities into culturally responsive pedagogies / Nadjwa E.L. Norton -- Staying fat : moving past the exercise-industrial-complex / Joshua I. Newman, Carolyn Albright, and Ryan King-White -- Putting "culturally relevant" into professional development / Charnita V. West -- Overcoming (under)lying assumptions : approaching language education from a Freirean perspective / Miguel Mantero.