Understanding the Role of Culture in Education

🌍 Culture is the foundation of culturally relevant pedagogy, encompassing world-views, beliefs, language, and values.

🎨🎶💡 Culture can be divided into visible elements like art and technology, and intangible elements like values and perspectives.

📚 Culturally relevant pedagogy involves teachers incorporating students' everyday cultural experiences into their education.

🌍 Culturally relevant pedagogy emphasizes the connection between students' cultural experiences and their learning.

📚 Students are not cultural blank slates, but bring their prior cultural knowledge into the classroom.

🔗 Culturally responsive teaching aims to bridge the gap between students' cultural filters and instructional messages.

Culturally responsive teaching emphasizes adapting the school's messaging to match students' cultural filters.

Students are individuals with unique needs and interests, belonging to diverse ethnic groups.

Cultural attachment and bonds to ethnic groups vary based on factors like length of stay in the country and social class.

🗝️ Culture should not be conflated with race or ethnicity in education.

🔎 Avoiding the one-size-fits-all approach in culturally relevant pedagogy.

⚖️ Challenges with implementing culturally relevant pedagogy.