Equity & cultural responsiveness in the middle grades

• Other Authors: Brinegar, Kathleen (Editor), Harrison, Lisa (Editor), Hurd, Ellis (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2019]
• Series: Handbook of research in middle level education series.
• Subjects: Educational equalization.; Middle school education.; Middle school students > Social conditions.; Multicultural education.; Education > Administration > Elementary & Secondary.; Education of bilingual or multilingual students.; Educational administration and organization.; Primary and middle schools.; Secondary schools.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806606894
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-64113-675-4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (370 pages)

"While developmental responsiveness is a deservingly key emphasis of middle grades education, this emphasis has often been to the detriment of focusing on the cultural needs of young adolescents. This Handbook volume explores research relating to equity and culturally responsive practices when...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Section I. Unpacking the failures of relying on developmentalism at the middle level
• Chapter 1. Exploring the convergence of developmentalism and cultural responsiveness / Lisa M. Harrison, Ellis Hurd, and Kathleen M. Brinegar
• Chapter 2. Missed opportunities, no more / Mark D. Vagle and Tracy M. Hamel
• Chapter 3. A framework for responsive middle level mathematics teaching / Cheryl R. Ellerbrock and Eugenia Vomvoridi-Ivanovic
• Section II. Supporting young adolescents with marginalized identities
• Chapter 4. The (un)muted voices of middle grades youth experiencing homelessness / Matthew J. Moulton
• Chapter 5. Sounding funny and making sense: Multimodal codemeshing as a culturally sustaining pedagogy in an English-centric classroom / Mark B. Pacheco and Blaine E. Smith
• Chapter 6. Middle (mis)management: Staff sanctioned victimization in the middle grades / Brendan Downing
• Chapter 7. Illuminating the power of personal narrative writing to affirm the literacies and lives of black youth / ThedaMarie Gibbs Grey
• Section III. Building equitable spaces through the implementation of culturally responsive practices
• Chapter 8. Creating a space for culturally sustaining pedagogy / James Nagle and Will Andrews
• Chapter 9. #nodapl: Collaboratively designing culturally responsive curriculum / Becky Beucher and Amy Smith
• Chapter 10. Middle level administrators' perspectives on disciplinary consequences assigned to African American female students / Kriss Y. Kemp-Graham
• Chapter 11. Educators' practice for English language learners' critical consciousness: From marginalized identities to active agents / Bogum Yoon and Christine Uliassi
• Section IV. Empowering middle level educators to work with youth with marginalized identities
• Chapter 12. Enacting culturally responsive pedagogies: A multicase study of middle level teachers in urban, priority schools / M. Shelley Thomas and Penny B. Howell
• Chapter 13. Preparing culturally responsive middle level educators to engage in critical conversations: Preservice teachers learning in an integrated curriculum course / Toni M. Williams
• Chapter 14. Preparing teachers to prevent classroom management challenges using culturally responsive classroom practices / Amy S. Murphy and Brianna L. Kennedy
• Chapter 15. Establishing a pedagogy of equity and culturally responsiveness in the middle grades / Kathleen M. Brinegar, Lisa M. Harrison, and Ellis Hurd
• About the editors
• About the contributors.