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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791868203321

Titolo

Culture, relevance, and schooling [[electronic resource] ] : exploring uncommon ground / / edited by Lisa Scherff and Karen Spector

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Education, c2011

ISBN

1-282-99195-7

9786612991950

1-60709-890-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ScherffLisa <1968->

SpectorKaren

Disciplina

306.430973

Soggetti

Education - Social aspects - United States

Education - Parent participation - United States

Critical pedagogy - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Culture, Relevance,and Schooling; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Vignette:Making Culture Visible through; Chapter One: Collective Cultural Relevancy throughHybrid Communities of Practice; Chapter Two: Seeing Relevance; Chapter Three: Expanding Notions of CulturallyResponsive Education withUrban Native Youth; Chapter Four: Weaving Spiritualities intoCulturally Responsive Pedagogies; Chapter Five: Staying Fat; Chapter Six: Putting "Culturally Relevant"into Professional Development; Chapter Seven: Overcoming (Under)Lying Assumptions; Index; About the Editors

About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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.