ERIC Number: EJ1270228
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-0034-0561
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Centering Culture through Writing and the Arts: Lessons Learned in New Zealand
Kelly, Katie; Becker, Whitney; Lipscomb, George; Robards, Addie
Reading Teacher, v74 n2 p147-158 Sep-Oct 2020
Culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogy is an asset-based approach to teaching and learning. In this way, students' identities, languages, and cultures are centered in the learning experience, creating a sense of belonging. The authors observed culturally relevant and sustaining approaches to teaching and learning while visiting schools in New Zealand as part of a three-week study abroad program. Specifically, the authors observed how teachers in New Zealand centered Maori and Pasifika cultures into daily instruction and learning. Together as teacher educators, an inservice teacher, and a preservice teacher, the authors examine the importance of culturally relevant and sustaining teaching and share their observations of how students' cultures are honored through writing and arts integration in the classrooms visited in New Zealand. The authors describe how a fifth-grade teacher applied lessons learned from her visit to New Zealand in her own classroom context in the United States.
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Writing Instruction, Art Education, Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Pacific Islanders, Inclusion, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 5, Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 5; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New Zealand
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