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Culturally responsive training: Why and how?Anne FoxAnne Fox ApS
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Explore meaning of culturally responsive teaching (CRT)
Present a couple of the main tools used in CRT
Suggest some benefits of CRT for intercultural trainers
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Making a diverse group of people feel comfortable, welcome and valued
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Not about intercultural training
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Focus on instructor
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Could we refer to culturally responsive training?
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Toolbox 1: Motivational framework
Wlodkowski frameworkThis framework includes four motivational conditions that the instructor and the learners collaboratively create or enhance: Establishing inclusion Developing (positive) attitude Enhancing meaning Engendering competence
“The Motivational Framework for Culturally
Responsive Teaching respects different
individual cultures and works at the same time to create a
common culture in the learning
situation that all adults can accept.”
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The toolbox 2: Participation guidelines Listen carefully, especially to perspectives different from yours. Keep personal information shared in the group confidential. Speak from your own experience, saying, for example, “I think” or “In
my experience I have found,” rather than generalizing your experience to others by saying, for example, “People say,” or “We believe.”
Do no blaming or scapegoating. Avoid generalizing about groups of people. Share airtime. Focus on your own learning.
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Toolbox 3: Communication strategies
Starting point is the formalised ritual of a traditional classroom
Passive receptive vs participatory interactive (Latino, African American and native Hawaiian) = rude, inconsiderate, speaking out of turn & disruptive
Call-response (talking back, breaking in & talking over) Co-narration where the group performance in telling a story matters Deductive (didactic) vs inductive Topic-centred (linear logic) vs topic-chained (anecdotal links) Metaphor Story (as prompt and response)
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Toolbox 4: Cooperative learning
What is it? Working in small (4-6) groups on a
joint task Roles not task assignment (resource
finder, time-keeper, consensus builder, reporter etc)
Rotating roles Joint task = essential question Presentation to other groups Trainer as facilitator (don’t solve
problems but identify & suggest tools to solve problems)
Tried and tested
Works well with adults Works well with diverse groups Works well with diverse cultures
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Toolbox 5: Observation guide
What do you see?Eg Participation guidelines in useWorking togetherSpirit of inquiryIntellectually safe environment What do you hear?MusicAuthentic discussionEverybody contributesAuthentic feedbackCultural modelling eg use of metaphors
“Culturally responsive teaching emphasizes cultural ways of learning and cognition rather than focusing on cosmetic “race related” displays. Affirmation of students’ cultural roots comes through • incorporating deep cultural values
and cultural ways of learning • using the memory systems of the brain• organizing around social interaction
(collectivism), and • combining oratory skills with academic
talk rather than through superficial pictures of “heroes” or images of Africa or Mexico or irrelevant mentioning in the curriculum.”Hammond, 2015
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What now?
Apply the Wlodkowski framework (inclusion, positive, meaning, competence)
Avoiding stereotype threat and micro aggressions Use of Cooperative Learning approach Accommodation of different communication styles
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Sources
Gay, G Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, research and practice, 2010, Teachers College Press
Hammond, Z. Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain: Promoting authentic engagement and rigor among culturally and linguistically diverse students 2015 Corwin Press
Wlodkowski, R. J. The Motivational Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching is presented as a guide to foster participation, learning, and transfer throughout a professional development program for all participants. Source: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, no. 98, Summer 2003, Wiley.
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Links
Absolutely Intercultural www.absolutely-intercultural.com Teaching Culture newsletter Anne Fox www.annefox.eu I am on Linked In, Twitter and Facebook (search on foxdenuk)
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