LibGuides UFV: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: CRP Foundations

Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Our Guide

The reflection guide for our community is the following.

Muñiz, J. (2021) Culturally Responsive Teaching: A Reflection Guide.
Bringing together insights from extensive research on culturally relevant, responsive, and sustaining pedagogies, New America developed eight common competencies of culturally responsive educators (see Figure 1). Though not an exhaustive list, these interconnected competencies illustrate the common skills and knowledge that research and theory in the field suggests are critical to enacting culturally responsive teaching with fidelity, across grade levels and subject areas. These competencies were used to guide our scan of teaching standards, which is described in Section 5 (“Integration of CRT in State Professional Teaching Standards”) of this report. [From Website]

Foundational Readings

Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta Hammond
Call Number: Available in Print LC 1099.3 H335 2015 & as E-book
Publication Date: 2014-12-01
The achievement gap remains a stubborn problem for educators of culturally and linguistically diverse students. With the introduction of rigorous Common Core State Standards, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement and facilitating deeper learning. Culturally responsive pedagogy has shown great promise in meeting this need, but many educators still struggle with its implementation. In this book, Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsive instruction. [From Publisher]
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy by Gloria Ladson-Billings; Django Paris (Series edited by)
Publication Date: 2021-10-15
This compilation of Ladson-Billings's published work on Culturally Relevant Pedagogy examines the theory, how it works in specific subject areas, and its role in teacher education. The final section looks toward the future, including what it means to re-mix CRP with elements of youth culture such as hip hop. This one-of-a-kind collection can be used as an introduction to CRP and as a retrospective of the idea as it evolved over time, helping a new generation to see the possibilities that exist in teaching and learning for all students. [From Publisher]

Ladson-Billings, G. (2014). Culturally relevant pedagogy 2.0: aka the remix. Harvard educational review, 84(1), 74-84.
In this article, Ladson-Billings reflects on the history of her theory of culturally relevant pedagogy and the ways it has been used and misused since its inception. She argues for the importance of dynamic scholarship and suggests that it is time for a “remix” of her original theory: culturally sustaining pedagogy, as proposed by Paris (2012). Ladson-Billings discusses her work with the hip-hop and spoken word program First Wave as an example of how culturally sustaining pedagogy allows for a fluid understanding of culture, and a teaching practice that explicitly engages questions of equity and justice. Influenced by her experience with the First Wave program, Ladson-Billings welcomes the burgeoning literature on culturally sustaining pedagogy as a way to push forward her original goals of engaging critically in the cultural landscapes of classrooms and teacher education programs. [From Publisher]

Culturally Responsive Teaching by Geneva Gay
Call Number: E-book and Print LC 1099.3 G393 2018
Publication Date: 2018-01-26
Combining insights from multicultural education theory with real-life classroom stories, this book demonstrates that all students will perform better on multiple measures of achievement when teaching is filtered through students' own cultural experiences. [From Publisher]

Other Resources

This presentation discusses foundations of Culturally Responsive Teaching and Culturally Relevant Teaching/Pedagogy, and how at the Centre for Urban Schooling at OISE in 2008, we began to blend the two to create what has come to be known as CRRP. In this video, I discuss how we have taken up the work to expand upon the original theories from the United States as we apply them within the Canadian context. Of all of the components, I focus in on the critical consciousness component from Ladson-Billings' original work on Culturally Relevant Teaching (1994) and share how some of my recent work in Ontario has been focused on exploring the critical consciousness raising of the educator as a part of the work to support students. This work is taken up through an educator inquiry that I've come o call Critically Conscious Practitioner Inquiry (2016). I provide a few ideas for thinking about entry into CRRP as a beginner, and emphasize it is an anti-oppressive not multicultural approach. [From Website]

Podcast: The Look and Feel of Culturally Responsive Instruction
Larry Ferlazzo with Django Paris. The demographics of America’s student population is changing rapidly. What are the implications for 21st-century educators? [From Website]

Non-Western Perspectives on Learning and Knowing by Sharan B. Merriam
Call Number: LB 1060 N66 2007
Publication Date: 2007
This book introduces readers to systems of knowing and learning different from our familiar Western educational tradition. As with other areas of education, the knowledge base that has developed around adult learning and education has been firmly lodged in Western values and culture. But we need only look beyond our borders as well as to our own indigenous Native Americans to find major systems of thought and beliefs embedded in entirely different cultural values. Chapters on Native American Indigenous Knowledge, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Maori, Latin American Perspectives and African Indigenous Knowledge will acquaint readers with alternative understandings of learning, leading, it is hoped, to a more holistic understanding of adult learning. [From Publisher]