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What is Culturally Responsive Pedagogy?

STUDENT LEARNING: Students' intellectual growth and moral development, but also their ability to problem-solve and reason


CULTURAL COMPETENCE Skills that support students to affirm and appreciate their culture of origin while developing fluency in at least one other culture.


CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS The ability to identify, analyze, and solve real-world problems, especially those that result in societal inequalities

(Source: CA Dept of Ed)

White Privilege

White privilege is a concept that was developed and discussed throughout the 20th century. This video focuses on the academic article written by Peggy McIntosh in 1988 White and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies and her specific except taken from this article (Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack).

University Diversity Websites

  1. Increasing Inclusivity in the Classroom from Vanderbilt University
  2. Building Inclusive Classrooms from Cornell University
  3. Diversity and Inclusive Teaching from the University of Delaware
  4. RISDiversity: Community Narratives from Rhode Island School of Design
  5. Creating Inclusive Classrooms from the University of Arizona
  6. Diversity in the Classroom from Yale Center for Teaching and Learning
  7. Diversity & Creating an Inclusive Classroom from the University of Illinois
  8. Diversity and Inclusion in the Classroom from the University of Rhode Island
  9. Inclusive Teaching Resources and Strategies from the University of Michigan
  10. Strategies for Inclusive Teaching from Washington University
  11. Inclusive Pedagogy from Humboldt State University
  12. Diversity in the Classroom from UCLA Faculty Development

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