ERIC Number: EJ1112090
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Sep
Pages: 5
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1784
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Let Care Shine Through
Bondy, Elizabeth; Hambacher, Elyse
Educational Leadership, v74 n1 p50-54 Sep 2016
Care is in the eyes of the receiver; it doesn't exist unless those being cared for experience it. The authors describe culturally relevant critical teacher care, an approach that considers the effects of students' cultural and socioeconomic conditions and that helps teachers find ways to show care to every learner--especially those from oppressed groups. Bondy and Hambacher describe three principles of this care for students (having political clarity, embodying critical hope, and sticking to asset-based thinking). They describe four helpful practices that they observed in a long-term study of two effective 5th grade teachers. These teachers embodied a culturally relevant approach to supporting students: expanding the meaning of achievement; overhauling deficit thinking; offering high expectations and support; and teaching with urgency.
Descriptors: Caring, Culturally Relevant Education, Socioeconomic Status, Cultural Background, Teacher Student Relationship, Educational Practices, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 5, Teacher Expectations of Students, Disadvantaged
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 5; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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