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Multicultural Learning & Teaching Is Everybody’s Everyday Work. Period.
Ilene D. Alexander
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STUDENTS
capable of learningcapable of learning on their own
capable of learning in other wayscapable of resilient creativity
LEARNERS
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Two-Eyed Learning
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Adult Learning
1. THINK DIALECTICALLYrecognize contextual, move between• objective/subjective• universal/specific
2. EMPLOY PRACTICAL LOGICattend to internal features of given situation • reason in divergent, deep, critical ways
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3. KNOW HOW WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW• become conscious of learning • perspective taking• adjust ways of learning situationally• discern grounds for decision-making
4. ENGAGE IN CRITICAL REFLECTIONassess the match between • earlier rules / practices / practical theories, and• emerging understandings in interpersonal, work,
and political lives as well as learning life
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“I need people to see me as an individual, yet entertain the possibility that I am also shaped by
and bring strengths from my cultural ways of doing things.” Mikayla
Teachers and students must engage in multiple of ways of knowing, making sense of multiple sources, realities, solutions, conflicts,
relationships, experiences and methods.
“I need to learn and work in a variety of ways. Life is complex and so should learning be
complex.” Marco
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What if we cast the classroom as a net of relationships with people who care about each other’s learning as well as their own?
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Integration involves attempts to stimulate, test, and perhaps experience new understandings, and social, personal configurations.
Ira de A. Reid: Journal of Negro Education, 1954
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• bias and curiosity• hierarchy and yearning • certainty and whimsy
• concepts and creativity• grammars and innovations
• fear and possibility• facts and discovery
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Potential Coalitions
Purposeful Communities
Participatory Collaborations
Principled Considerations
Pragmatic Connections
Pertinent Contact
Poignant Conjecture
Practical Consensus
Plucky Climates
P C
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
William Faulkner
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1847 “blue book” report conclusions: the Welsh are ignorant, lazy, immoral
among the causes of this:•Welsh language •nonconformity
•teachers speak only English, provide only English language text-books
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GUILT
is not a feeling.It is an intellectual mask to a feeling.
Fear is a feeling. Fear is real.
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Read Write Speak D
raw:
To Participate
To Learn
To Change
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The work of a teacher involves bridging … recognition of meaning attribution & the power that emotions, values, and personal experience have in shaping interpretation of information.