Title: 
Headings: education sciences
education
 
sciences

Culturally
 
Responsive
 
Teaching:
 
Implications
 
for
Educational
 
Justice

Magnus
 
O.
 
Bassey


 
Introduction

2.
 
Culturally
 
Responsive
 
Teaching
 
as
 
Social
 
Justice
 
Education

3.
 
Conclusions

References


Content: The
 
curriculum
 
was
 
initiated
to
 
empower
 
students
 
to
 
critically
 
examine
 
their
 
existing
 
conditions
 
so
 
as
 
to
 
“gain
 
knowledge
 
and
conﬁdence
 
to
 
activate
 
change,
 
and
 
to
 
prepare
 
themselves
 
to
 
contribute
 
creatively
 
and
 
positively
 
in
their
 
communities”
 
[17]
 
(p.
 
2). The
 
students
 
were
 
“acquainted
 
with
 
different
 
points
 
of
 
view; to
stimulate,
 
challenge,
 
and
 
expand
 
ideas
 
and
 
opinions; to
 
explore
 
possibilities
 
of
 
community
 
and
 
social
improvement
 
through
 
collective
 
decision
 
making; and,
 
hopefully,
 
to
 
effect
 
those
 
possibilities”
 
[17]
(p.
 
3). In
 
their
 
classrooms,
 
students
 
were
 
taught
 
how
 
to
 
channel
 
their
 
frustrations
 
appropriately
 
to
initiate
 
change
 
because
 
culturally