Necessary Background Information: Students will find that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has calculated that one-third of a family’s total income could be set aside for food. This led to the original poverty line at $3000 in 1963. This and other information surrounding this activity lends itself easily to fraction, decimal, and percentage manipulation, and [...]
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An intriguing piece of a lesson plan I’m constructing…
Posted in Social Justice Education, tagged culturally relevant curricula, culturally relevant pedagogy, lesson planning, mathematics, minimum wage, poverty, social class, Social Justice Education on October 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A work in progress on past and present learning theories
Posted in Social Justice Education, Uncategorized, tagged academic achievement, assimilation, Bandura, Behaviorism, Beverly Cross, critical pedagogy, culturally relevant pedagogy, education, Geneva Gay, Gloria Ladson-Billings, learning styles, Learning theories, Lisa Delpit, Martin Haberman, Pavlov, Skinner, Thorndike on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Behaviorism is one of the theories that have remained popular since its inception. This theory came out of the notion that humans were biologically continuous with the animal Kingdom (Phillips & Soltis, 2004, p.21). The focus in behaviorism isn’t how new knowledge is acquired but how new behaviors are acquired. Simply put, behaviors are [...]
Is Cultural Competency Just Another Buzz Word?
Posted in Social Justice Education, Uncategorized, tagged Beverly Cross, cultural mismatch, culturally relevant pedagogy, culture, dominant culture, education, Geneva Gay, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Lisa Delpit, racial privilege, social capital, students of color, teachers of color on September 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Is Cultural Competency Just Another Buzz Word?
As education reform in the United States continues to move, even if the movement is in circles, along with reform comes new buzz words and phrases. One of the hot phrases of today is cultural competency. Educators, teacher educators, and education institutions claim to be in [...]
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