Chapter 15: Establishing a Pedagogy of Equity and Culturally Responsiveness in the Middle Grades
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Published:2019
Kathleen M. Brinegar, Lisa M. Harrison, Ellis Hurd, 2019. "Establishing a Pedagogy of Equity and Culturally Responsiveness in the Middle Grades", Equity & Cultural Responsiveness in the Middle Grades, Kathleen Brinegar, Lisa Harrison, Ellis Hurd
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We created this Handbook as a call to action. It adds to the small but growing body of literature specifically related to young adolescents, marginalized identities, and equity (see Brinegar, Kennedy-Lewis, Harrison, & Hurd, 2016; Kennedy, Brinegar, Hurd, & Harrison, 2016). Its chapters demonstrate how the middle grades movement can no longer afford to be complicit in an educational system that oppresses and marginalizes those whose identities are not part of the mainstream culture. Educational leaders have publicly called for a greater focus on equity in education. In her 2006 AERA Presidential Address, Ladson-Billings asserted:
We do not have an achievement gap… I am arguing that the historical, economic, sociopolitical, and moral decisions and policies that characterize our society have created an education debt… That debt service manifests itself in the distrust and suspicion about what schools can and will do in communities serving the poor and children of color. (pp. 5 & 9)
