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Gloria Ladson-Billings is the Kellner Family Chair of Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was the 2005-2006 president of the American Educational Research Association. Ladson-Billings' research examines the pedagogical practices of teachers who are successful with African American students. Her work has won numerous scholarly awards including the H.I. Romnes faculty fellowship, the Spencer Post-doctoral Fellowship, and the Palmer O. Johnson Outstanding research award. She is the former editor of the Teaching, Learning, and Human Development section of the American Educational Research Journal, and the author of numerous journal articles, book chapters, and the two critically acclaimed books, The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children and Crossing over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms.
Gloria Ladson-Billings — Culturally Relevant Teaching: Theory and Practice
In a standards driven, high stakes tests environment is the construct of a culturally relevant pedagogy a viable, useful, or necessary one? This course was based on the premise that teachers can and make a difference in the educational life chances of students and that difference can be enhanced through a culturally relevant approach.
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