Law and Society in Seattle: Law-Related Education as Culturally Responsive Teaching

Autor/in	VanderStaay, Steven L.
Titel	Law and Society in Seattle: Law-Related Education as Culturally Responsive Teaching
Quelle	In: Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 38 (2007) 4, S.360-379 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-7761
DOI	10.1525/aeq.2007.38.4.360
Schlagwörter	Law Related Education; Minority Groups; Ethnic Groups; Academic Achievement; Student Characteristics; Student Interests; Whites; Cultural Pluralism; Acceleration (Education); Cultural Awareness; Teaching Methods; Culturally Relevant Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnische Minderheit; Ethnie; Schulleistung; Studieninteresse; White; Weißer; Kulturpluralismus; Acceleration; Beschleunigung; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	In this article, I provide a portrait (Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot and Jessica Hoffman Davis 1997) of a renowned law-related education (LRE) program, its teacher, and four of its student-participants. Following the portrait, I discuss theoretical explanations for the success of ethnic-minority students in this and other LRE programs. These explanations include the nature of law as a difficult subject, the many convergences between culturally responsive teaching and LRE, and the relation of the content and methods of LRE to the cultural capital, interests, backgrounds, and ethnic identities of the students. I conclude with a discussion of the reciprocal nature of these processes, research on white teachers who are successful in multicultural contexts, the importance of challenging, accelerated classes, and an argument for expanding research on culturally responsive teaching and the achievement of students of color to include attention to the methods and materials of LRE. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10