Culturally Responsive Curriculum

Teaching in a Way Students Understand A culturally responsive curriculum helps students relate their own experiences to what they learn. It includes different cultures and perspectives, making education more meaningful. As Howe, Johnson, and Te Momo (2021) explain, this approach ensures that learning is not limited to one culture but reflects the experiences of all…

I am Maryam, an Iranian Muslim woman shaped by Iran’s gender-segregated schools. Iran, a civilized nation with a rich, millennia-old culture, brims with diverse ethnicities, religions, races, dialects, and accents a vibrant tapestry of identities. Yet, its education system buries this diversity. I cherish hijab as my choice, but the mandatory “maghnaeh” felt oppressive, a…

Culturally Responsive Teaching Embracing Diversity for Inclusive Learning My life in Kazakhstan has been strongly intertwined in cultural depth and devotion to my traditions. As a Kazakh woman and educator, family values, respect for elders, richness of our language were all integral to my existence. Kazakhstan is a multi-ethnic state with more than 106 nationalities, which serves…

From Exclusion to Inclusion: My Journey Through Cultural Responsiveness I grew up in a multilingual region where traveling just one kilometer could mean encountering a different language. Nigeria, my home country, is a highly populated nation of over 2 billion people, and my early education was deeply influenced by its cultural norms. I was eager…

In my current life, I have faced a lot of situations about culturally responsive when I was in school. There is a thing sticks in my mind. During my early years in elementary school, all subjects were taught in Mandarin. As a result, many students gradually lost the ability to speak their local dialects. This…

Regarding this topic, I would like to share my experience as a teacher who failed to effectively implement Culturally Responsive Education (CRE). From December 2019 to January 2020, I taught Chinese as a foreign language for one semester at Donghua University in Shanghai. My students came from countries such as the United States, Canada, Japan,…

My educational journey began in Nigeria, a country known for its rich linguistic diversity, with over 500 languages and dialects spoken across the country. I recall a moment of cultural disequilibrium from my primary school years. I was required to learn Yoruba, a language that wasn’t part of my native tongue, and teachers enforced it…

A cultural responsive classroom means that teachers respect and include different cultures. It makes students feel welcome and understood( Howe, Johnson, & Te momv, 2021). I remember a time when I felt a big different between my culture and what was taught in Canada. When I moved from China to Canada, there was a huge…

Culturally responsive teaching goes beyond the insertion of diverse perspectives but involves weaving students’ lived experiences and cultural identities into learning. There is a necessity to make curricula relevant to Indigenous students and to inform non-Indigenous students on Indigenous histories, worldviews, and contributions (Howe, Johnson, & Te Momo, 2021). India is incredibly diverse culturally, linguistically,…

Culturally responsive pedagogy incorporated into class is crucial nowadays, especially in Canada where multinational citizens from every country in the world come to, bringing along with their own characteristic cultures. Cultural diversity is an asset to everybody in this country, because every culture stands for an inspiring spirit or a precious tradition worthy of learning…