International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education
Editors: A/Prof John Lidstone, Queensland University of Technology and Prof Joseph P. Stoltman, Western Michigan University
Book Review Editor: Dr Sarah Witham Bednarz, Texas A & M University
Editorial Assistant: Donna Bennett, Australia
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Volume: 11 Number: 1 Page: 80–84
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A Case for Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
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Catherine Stoicovy
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Too often, the culture of the school experienced by the child is very different from the culture of the family and community in which the child lives. The result is that schools frequently become discontinuous
or out of sync with the populations they serve. Culturally responsive pedagogy seeks to remedy this situation by culturally contextualising the teaching–learning process. For the most part, teachers
are unprepared to teach a culturally diverse student population. Culturally responsive pedagogy for teacher education prepares teachers to be sensitive to the cultures of their students and to use their
understandings about how culture influences their learning in their day-to-day planning for teaching students. Culturally divergent systems of environmental ethics are but one aspect of student diversity.
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