Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Literacy Instruction, and Teacher Decision Making: A Formative Experiment Investigating Shifts in Teachers' Beliefs and Practices

Educational policies and systemic inequalities have created “very different educational realities” for African American students and their white counterparts (Darling-Hammond, 2005) resulting in low literacy rates, low test scores, and high dropout rates. Culturally relevant pedagogy has been shown...

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Main Author: Thornton, Natasha A.
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University 2014
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Online Access:http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/msit_diss/138
http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1158&context=msit_diss