Culture, Relevance, and Schooling Exploring Uncommon Ground

by Scherff, Lisa; Spector, Karen; Aguilera-Black Bear, Dorothy E.; Albright, Carolyn; Barton, Angela Calabrese; Drake, Corey; Manter, Miguel; Metzger, Kenan; Newman, Joshua I.; L. Norton, Nadjwa E.; Tatum, Alfred; King-White, Ryan; West, Charnita V.; Zenkov,

• ISBN13: 9781607098898
• ISBN10: 160709889X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-16
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Lisa Scherff is associate professor of secondary English language arts education at the University of Alabama. A former high school English and reading teacher, her research focuses on opportunities to learn and teacher preparation, induction, and mentoring. Karen Spector is assistant professor of secondary English education and literacy at the University of Alabama. Her research and teaching involves critical literacies across disciplines.

Table of Contents

Foreword The Legitimacy of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Resolved or Unresolved	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction Spatial, Discursive, and Embodied Borders	p. 1
Vignette Making Culture Visible through Experience and Understanding	p. 5
Collective Cultural Relevancy through Hybrid Communities of Practice	p. 11
Seeing Relevance: Using Photography to Understand How School, Curricula, and Pedagogies Matter to Urban Youth	p. 39
Expanding Notions of Culturally Responsive Education with Urban Native Youth: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy for Equity and Social Justice	p. 65
Weaving Spiritualities into Culturally Responsive Pedagogies	p. 85
Staying Fat: Moving Past the Exercise-Industrial-Complex	p. 103
Putting "Culturally Relevant" into Professional Development	p. 125
Overcoming (Under)Lying Assumptions: Approaching Language Education from a Freirean Perspective	p. 141
Index	p. 151
About the Editors	p. 157
About the Contributors	p. 159
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