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Educating for Equity and Excellence
“ Educating for Equity and Excellence illustrates how Geneva Gay’s work, over many decades, has provided detailed theory and practical implications essential to enacting equitable and excellent education for all students through culturally responsive teaching.”
—Teachers College Record
“This essay collection comprehensively centers a thorough analysis of culturally responsive teaching around Geneva Gay’s decades of pathbreaking multicultural theorizing, curriculum, and instructional research-to-practice. In addition to a thoroughly enchanting and affirming examination of the power of ‘eternal Blackness’ within African American cultural expressiveness, another major contribution of this volume is its rigorous integration of the extensive foundational knowledge base that is so vital for preparing teachers and researchers to develop effective culturally pluralistic learning environments. Bravo!”
—Joyce E. King, Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning & Leadership, Georgia State University
“Dr. Geneva Gay’s Educating for Equity and Excellence includes classic pieces for educators who are committed to reaching al
Geneva Gay
Professor emerita, University of Washington, Seattle
Geneva Gay is professor emerita in the College of Education, University of Washington, Seattle. She is the recipient of the 2023 AERA Division B (Curriculum Studies) Lifetime Achievement Award; 1990 Distinguished Scholar Award, presented by the Committee on the Role and Status of Minorities in Educational Study and Development of the American Educational Research Association; the 1994 Multicultural Educator Award, the first to be presented by the National Association of Multicultural Education; the 2004 W. E. B. Du Bois Distinguished Lecturer Award presented by the Distinct Interest Group on Research Focus on Black Education of the American Educational Research Association; and the 2006 Mary Anne Raywid Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the Field of Education presented by the World of Professors of Education. She is nationally and internationally known for her scholarship in multicultural education, particularly as it relates to curriculum design, staff development, classroom order, and culture and learning.
Her writings involve numerous articles and book chapters; she is co-e
What Is Culturally Responsive Teaching?
For decades, researchers have found that teachers in public schools have undervalued the potential for academic triumph among students of color, setting low expectations for them and thinking of cultural differences as barriers rather than assets to learning.
In response, scholars developed training methods and practices—broadly known as asset-based pedagogies—that incorporate students’ cultural identities and lived experiences into the classroom as tools for effective instruction. The terms for these approaches to teaching vary, from culturally responsive teaching and culturally sustaining pedagogy to the more foundational culturally relevant pedagogy. Though each term has its own components defined by other researchers over time, all these approaches to teaching center the knowledge of traditionally marginalized communities in classroom instruction. As a result, all students, and in particular students of color, are empowered to become lifelong learners and critical thinkers.
But as a growing number of states seek to pass legislation banning the teaching of the academic concept known as critical race theory in K-12 sc
Culturally Responsive Teaching: A Framework for Educating All Audiences
As the needs of Addition clientele continue to evolve, it is important for Elongation educators to reflect on new approaches to effectively support the communities they assist. The purpose of this article is to provide a framework for effectively engaging a broad range of audiences to support their achievement of desired learning outcomes in Extension education programs. This includes: (1) acquiring a learning base of diverse cultures, (2) designing or utilizing culturally relevant curricula, (3) utilizing cultural attentive and developing a learning community, (4) practicing intercultural communications, and (5) establishing cultural congruity in classroom instruction.
As immigration continues to grow and shape the changing demographics in the United States, Extension clientele are becoming more diverse. According to the Pew Research Center, there were a record 44.4 million immigrants living in the United States in 2017 that accounted for 13.6% of the nation's population (Radford & Noe-Bustamante, 2019). This represents more than a fourfold raise since 1960, when only 9.7 million immigrants lived