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  2. Culturally relevant teaching - Wikipedia

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    Culturally relevant teaching is instruction that takes into account students' cultural differences. Making education culturally relevant is thought to improve academic achievement, [1] but understandings of the construct have developed over time [2] Key characteristics and principles define the term, and research has allowed for the development and sharing of guidelines and associated teaching ...

  3. Multicultural education - Wikipedia

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    Use art as a starting point in discussions of cultural and racial issues. Have students create collective classroom slang dictionaries. Find places in your current curriculum to embed multicultural lessons, ideas, and materials (a continuous process, not merely the celebration of Black History Month or a small aside.) Allow controversy.

  4. Gloria Ladson-Billings - Wikipedia

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    Education debt is a theory developed by Ladson-Billings to attempt to explain the racial achievement gap. As defined by Professor Emeritus Robert Haveman, a colleague of hers, education debt is the "foregone schooling resources that we could have (should have) been investing in (primarily) low income kids, which deficit leads to a variety of social problems (e.g. crime, low productivity, low ...

  5. Indigenous education - Wikipedia

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    Culturally relevant pedagogy involves curriculum tailored to the cultural needs of students and participants involved. Culture is at the core of CRP and teachers and educators aim for all students to achieve academic success, develop cultural competence, and develop critical consciousness to challenge the current social structures of inequality ...

  6. Curriculum theory - Wikipedia

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    Current multicultural education theory suggests that curriculum and institutional change is required to support the development of students from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. This is a controversial view [ 24 ] but multicultural education argues [ 25 ] that traditional curriculum does not adequately represent the history of the non ...

  7. Curriculum - Wikipedia

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    A 52-week curriculum for a medical school, showing the courses for the different levels. In education, a curriculum (/ k ə ˈ r ɪ k j ʊ l ə m /; pl.: curriculums or curricula / k ə ˈ r ɪ k j ʊ l ə /) is the totality of student experiences that occur in an educational process.

  8. Community organizations bring culturally relevant foods to ...

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    Forest Home Avenue School is among the groups that operate a mobile food bank providing culturally relevant food to nearly 200 families each month.

  9. Anti-bias curriculum - Wikipedia

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    The anti-racist curriculum is part of a wider social constructivist movement in the various societies of the Western World, where many scientific worldviews are seen as manifestations of Western cultures who enjoy a privileged position over societies from the "Global South", [3] along with claiming that there is a sociocultural aspect to ...