Culturally responsive teaching requires deep cultural self-awareness.

Evidence

The ability of the culturally responsive teacher to enter into the limited form of dialogue unique to the teacher-learner relationship is only one aspect of the languaging process that characterizes an eco-justice pedagogy. — C. A. Bowers, Educating for Eco-Justice and Community, 5957

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Cultural humility requires openness, self-awareness, self-critique, self-reflection, and rejection of ego on the part of teachers. — Questioning Cultural Humility; Knowing another culture needs uncoercive contact and interpretive self-consciousness — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam: How the Media and the…, 328; Critical multiculturalism requires self-critique of one’s own culture first — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 952

Broader Connections