Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

• In Event: Cultivating and Expanding Equitable Education Opportunity by Implementing Multicultural Research, Policy, and Practice

Abstract

Tyrone C. Howard will give a comprehensive overview of culturally responsive teaching and pedagogy. He will describe the complexity of culturally responsive pedagogy and how simplistic approaches to it can be detrimental. Howard maintains that culturally responsive pedagogy is situated in a framework that recognizes the rich and varied cultural wealth, knowledge, and skills that students from diverse groups bring to schools, and seeks to develop dynamic teaching practices, multicultural content, multiple means of assessment, and a philosophical view of teaching that is dedicated to nurturing students’ academic, social, emotional, cultural, psychological, and physiological well-beings. Howard will explain why culturally responsive pedagogy, if it is not mediated by a deep understanding of the ways in which cultures are fluid, changing, multifaceted, contextual, and complex, can lead to lead to stereotypic thinking about cultures and the essentialization of the cultures of students from diverse groups.

Author

• Tyrone C. Howard, University of California - Los Angeles