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

From the foreword and introduction, through each of the essays, this volume reanimates the oft-employed term 'cultural relevance,' bringing it to life through the experiences of children and youth who seek a relevant and meaningful education and teachers who strive, always fallibly and often imperfectly, to offer what their students deserve. Fortunately, there are no recipes for quick-fixes suggested here. Instead, teachers, administrators, and researchers will find rich, complex examples of critical pedagogies in practice that point to relevance as a lived concept that has the potential, in all of its intricacies, to craft school spaces in which students feel connected, valued, and at the center of their own educations.