Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
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Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Educational attainment is varied across the diverse cultures in the United States. Educators apply well-developed teaching strategies to improve student performance. Developing a culturally relevant pedagogy and integrating it into the mainstream curriculum would improve students’ educational attainment.
Culturally relevant pedagogy reflects each student’s history, reality, and perspective. The concept is founded on pillars of academic success, cultural competence, and critical consciousness. The academic success pillar exploits students’ strengths to improve their academic power. Learners are directed to choose elements they perceive as most profound in their lives. The cultural competence concept aims to ensure that students develop cultural integrity by preventing the alienation or stigmatization of African American learners. Consequently, instructors apply specific cultural values to modulate learning, such as rap music among African Americans. Students are also encouraged to express...