EDUC459 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fraternities And Sororities
10 Apr 2018
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Racial literacy, equity literacy, culturally relevant/sustaining pedagogy. The characteristics of everyday life (norms, values, practices, patterns of communication, language, laws, customs, meanings) of a group of people located in a given time and place. The ever-changing values, traditions, social and political relationships, and worldview created, shared, and transformed by a group of people bound together by a combination of factors that can include a common history, geographic location, language, social class and religion. Something we do - dynamic, fluid, changing, hybrid, responsive. All of us participate in multiple cultural practices through the values, traditions, social and political relationships, worldviews and everyday ways of being. Shaped by multiple collective group frames/identities (ethnic, religious, gender) and by more personal characteristics (lenses) (interests, age, geographic location, family dynamics) Classroom cultures, resident hall cultures, greek life culture, university cultures, etc. ) Culture seen as something we are born with. Culture conflated with only ethnicity or race. Culture only belongs to non-white racial/ethnic groups.
