Becoming a More Culturally Responsive Teacher by Identifying and Reducing Microaggressions in Classrooms and School Communities

Autor/in	Darvin, Jacqueline
Titel	Becoming a More Culturally Responsive Teacher by Identifying and Reducing Microaggressions in Classrooms and School Communities
Quelle	In: Journal for Multicultural Education, 12 (2018) 1, S.2-9 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2053-535X
DOI	10.1108/JME-03-2017-0020
Schlagwörter	Culturally Relevant Education; Aggression; Teacher Student Relationship; Peer Relationship; Social Bias; Identification; Change; Parent Participation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Peer-Beziehungen; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Wandel; Elternmitwirkung
Abstract	Purpose: There is more to culturally responsive teaching than selecting multicultural texts and designing inclusive lesson. This paper aims to support teachers in becoming more culturally responsive by guiding them in how to recognize and respond to microaggressions in their daily interactions with students, colleagues, and parents. Design/methodology/approach: Microaggressions have been defined as "brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color". Findings: When classroom interactions contain microaggressions, students are damaged in both seen and unseen ways. Interactions between teachers, students and parents afford powerful occasions to analyze classroom communication and provide windows into the nature of student-student, student-teacher and teacher-parent relationships. Practical implications: Regardless of where, when, why or how they occur, these interactions provide brief opportunities for culturally responsive teachers to demonstrate that they respect their students' home and community cultures, accept who their students are and honor the education that they receive both inside and outside of school. Social implications: Becoming more adept at recognizing and addressing microaggressions is one way that teachers can become more culturally responsive. For students, being able to identify and respond more effectively to microaggressions creates greater opportunities for all students to think critically and engage in social action. Originality/value: This paper presents an original viewpoint on identifying and reducing microaggressions in classrooms and school communities. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01