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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Culturally relevant education"”.
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A Time to Create Change: A Case Study of Culturally Relevant Education
… opportunities than their white counterparts. Culturally Relevant Education (CRE) theory attempts to close this gap, and is defined by Gloria Ladson-Billings (1995) as</p> <p>Pedagogy that rests on three criteria or propositions: (a) Students must experience academic success; (b) students must …
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Culturally relevant Education and Skill-Based Education for Sustainability: Moving Towards an Integrated Theoretical and Methodological Framework
… between (1) the goals of skill-based education for sustainability and (2) the goals of culturally relevant education. This led to an examination of how they combine to mutually prepare students to be agents of positive change. Based on this research the study developed a theoretical …
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“That was menopause, but I didn't know that” Understanding Family Systems of Menopause Knowledge among African American Women with Endometrial Cancer
… opportunities to further shape menopause-related education throughout the reproductive life course for African American women. Methods: This was a secondary analysis of qualitative data from a larger study seeking to characterize the experiences of symptom onset and diagnosis of African American …
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Addressing barriers to food access among university employees: reducing stigma and raising awareness through a community-based pilot intervention
… emails with intentional messaging, nutrition education and resources were the most impactful in addressing lack of awareness. Additionally, most survey responses voiced themes of increased awareness (68%) while 31% of responses were attributed to decreased stigma. Findings suggest that …
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An explanatory sequential mixed methods study : solving mathematics word problems among African American students.
… in the seventh grade. This study applied a culturally relevant education (CRE) lens to examine how students solve mathematics word problems. Ladson-Billings (1997) and Gay (2018) established the foundational work of CRE, which emphasizes past experiences, cultural understanding, the frame of …
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"Let Me Tell You What I See" Creating a Culturally Relevant Arts Based Education Through the use of Photography and Storytelling
… educators with a curriculum that creates a culturally relevant arts based education through the use of photography and storytelling. This curriculum is based on the ideas of critical pedagogy, community cultural wealth, culturally relevant education, arts based education, photography, …
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Say It Loud: An Action Research Project Examining the Afrivisual and Africology, Looking for Alternative African American Community College Teaching Strategies
… empower African American students in gaining a culturally relevant education in Euro-American-centered schools. Using the Afrivisual in this work as an action-oriented tool the researcher sought to expose African American students to an African historical context.</p> <p>This research project …
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Situating Critical Indigenous Worldview within Western Academic Traditions: Place-Based and Culturally-relevant Science Education for Human Empowerment and Environmental Sustainability
… but have become marginalized in contemporary education. These ways focus on fostering the development of unique gifts and group cohesion, as opposed the fostering of independence and competition, the latter being two ideologies not found in Nature when it is in balance and harmony. This …
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Latino students and biliteracy at a university: Literacy histories, agency, and writing
… language and literacy: subtractive and additive educational environments, age of arrival to the United States, education in the home language, quality of high school experiences, and socioeconomic status. The concept of mediated agency (Wertsch, Tulviste & Hagstrom, 1993) was used to …
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Moving from Theory to Practice: Examining Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice in an Elementary School Classroom
… justice is a distinctive approach to mathematics education that seeks to have students use mathematics to navigate their identities, understand their lived experiences, examine inequities, and become agents of change. Current research provides a rich explanation of what teaching mathematics for …