Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World (Language and Literacy Series)

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An essential read that asks educators to see young people as whole versus broken when they enter our classrooms. Teaching Tolerance "This essential compilation will be of interest to scholars students and practitioners seeking understanding and examples of transformative classrooms." Language and Education Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies raises fundamental questions about the purpose of schooling in changing societies. Bringing together an intergenerational group of prominent educators and researchers this volume engages and extends the concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP)teaching that perpetuates and fosters linguistic literate and cultural pluralism as part of schooling for positive social transformation. The authors propose that schooling should be a site for sustaining the cultural practices of communities of color rather than eradicating them. Chapters present theoretically grounded examples of how educators and scholars can support Black Indigenous Latinx Asian/Pacific Islander South African and immigrant students as part of a collective movement toward educational justice in a changing world. Book Features: A definitive resource on culturally sustaining pedagogies including what they look like in the classroom and how they differ from deficit-model approaches. Examples of teaching that sustain the languages literacies and cultural practices of students and communities of color. Contributions from the founders of such lasting educational frameworks as culturally relevant pedagogy funds of knowledge cultural modeling and third space. Contributors: H. Samy Alim Mary Bucholtz Dolores Ins Casillas Michael Domnguez Nelson Flores Norma Gonzalez Kris D. Gutirrez Adam Haupt Amanda Holmes Jason G. Irizarry Patrick Johnson Valerie Kinloch Gloria Ladson-Billings Carol D. Lee Stacey J. Lee Tiffany S. Lee Jin Sook Lee Teresa L. McCarty Django Paris Courtney Pea Jonathan Rosa Timothy J. San Pedro Daniel Walsh Casey Wong