Culture, Relevance, and Schooling

Chapter 1 Foreword: The Legitimacy of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Resolved or Unresolved
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Spatial, Embodied, and Discursive Boundaries: An Introduction
Chapter 4 Opening Vignette: Making Culture Visible through Experience and Understanding
Chapter 5 1. Collective Cultural Relevancy through Hybrid Communities of Practice
Chapter 6 2. Seeing Relevance: Using Photography to Understand How School, Curricula, and Pedagogies Matter to Urban Youth
Chapter 7 3. Expanding Notions of Culturally Responsive Education with Urban Native Youth: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy for Equity and Social Justice
Chapter 8 4. Weaving Spiritualities into Culturally Responsive Pedagogies
Chapter 9 5. Staying Fat: Moving Past the Exercise-Industrial Complex
Chapter 10 6. Putting "Culturally Relevant" into Professional Development
Chapter 11 7. Overcoming (Under)lying Assumptions: Approaching Language Education from a Freirean Perspective

Scherff and Spector address one of the most important and politically charged questions in our field: What does culturally relevant pedagogy look like in action? Their edited volume, through a set of innovative and illustrative case studies that cut across age-groups and pedagogical contexts, adds to a growing body of empirical research to support the claim that culturally relevant pedagogy matters in twenty-first century learning contexts. These editors masterfully bring together a new generation of scholars who seek to fill in the blanks, bridging theory with practice and illuminating both the challenges and opportunities we face in moving forward with our mission to provide every child in our changing educational landscape with pedagogies of dignity, decency, and hope.