Culturally Sustaining and Motivating Practices: Fostering Equitable Learning Environments and Student Academic Success (Poster 42)

• In Event: Saturday Poster Session 9:35 am
  In Poster Session: Teaching of Educational Psychology Poster Session

Abstract

It is imperative that instructors implement culturally sustaining and motivating practices to foster equitable learning environments and student academic success in higher education. Students’ diverse cultural backgrounds, social identities, and lived experiences bring value to the learning context. Instructors can engage in the following culturally sustaining and motivating practices: fostering intrinsically motivating conditions in culturally diverse learning environments; promoting inclusive, mastery-focused learning environments; providing culturally responsive, need supportive teaching; and building students’ motivational resilience. We discuss how these practices are informed by four motivational frameworks: A Motivational Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching, Achievement Goal Theory, Self-Determination Theory, and Situated Expectancy-Value Theory. Lastly, we consider strategies for instructors to advocate for integrating culturally sustaining, motivating practices into higher education.

Authors

• Sarah Kiefer, University of South Florida

• Raven Robinson-Wilson, University of North Florida

• Kerrijo Ellis, University of South Florida