Posted in Social Justice Education, Uncategorized, tagged social capital, education, culture, dominant culture, students of color, racial privilege, Lisa Delpit, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Beverly Cross, culturally relevant pedagogy, Geneva Gay, cultural mismatch, 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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The connection between colorblind racism (the idea that one doesn’t see and thus respond to people on the basis of their color) and abstract liberalism is very subtle and hard to ascertain. Here, I provide a brief attempt to shed light on its connectedness through a hypothetical example.
Abstract liberalism: “This frame incorporates tenets associated [...]
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