Culturally Sustaining and Revitalizing Pedagogies: Language, Culture, and Power

by Cathy Coulter

Today's schools compartmentalize children and curriculum. Standardization dictates curricular content and assessment, narrowing the focus of classrooms and schools that serve diverse populations from varied geographical backgrounds. Against the backdrop of the western-derived, institutional framework of schooling are cultural ways of knowing that are place-based, holistic, experiential, and connected to oral storytelling. In the current movement toward...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784412619
• ISBN13: 9781784412616
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"