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9781607098898

Culture, Relevance, and Schooling Exploring Uncommon Ground

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  • ISBN13:

    9781607098898

  • ISBN10:

    160709889X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-03-16
  • Publisher: R&L Education

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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 Unresolvedp. v
Acknowledgmentsp. xiii
Introduction Spatial, Discursive, and Embodied Bordersp. 1
Vignette Making Culture Visible through Experience and Understandingp. 5
Collective Cultural Relevancy through Hybrid Communities of Practicep. 11
Seeing Relevance: Using Photography to Understand How School, Curricula, and Pedagogies Matter to Urban Youthp. 39
Expanding Notions of Culturally Responsive Education with Urban Native Youth: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy for Equity and Social Justicep. 65
Weaving Spiritualities into Culturally Responsive Pedagogiesp. 85
Staying Fat: Moving Past the Exercise-Industrial-Complexp. 103
Putting "Culturally Relevant" into Professional Developmentp. 125
Overcoming (Under)Lying Assumptions: Approaching Language Education from a Freirean Perspectivep. 141
Indexp. 151
About the Editorsp. 157
About the Contributorsp. 159
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