Liana+-+Culturally+Relevant+Versus+Multicultural+Pedagogy


 * March 28, 2011**

Cultural Membership is apparent in a variety of different "associations", such as:

 * Family
 * School
 * Friends
 * Colleagues
 * Sports
 * gender
 * SES

====Culture in the broadest sense of the term includes not just artistic and scholarly products. It encompasses the institutions, and practices, rites and rituals, beliefs and skills, attitudes and values, world views and localized modes of thinking and acting of all members of society over a whole range of contexts. Ornstein, Pajak, & Orenstein, 2007.====


 * Is committed to collective, not merely individual, empowerment
 * Students must be enabled to connect through themselves to the learning
 * students must experience academic success
 * students must develop and/or maintain cultural competence
 * students must develop a critical consciousness through which they challenge the status quo of the current social order

====**Reflection**: I was looking forward to a richer distinction between multi culturalism and culturally relevancy as related to education but it became apparent that while there are distinct differences, the lines are muddy AND the distinction is perhaps easier to understand for those whose "culture" is in line with the culture they are addressing.====

====**Implications for Ka Pi'ina:** As we move towards standards based kula Hawai'i it would behoove the training department to make this distinction more visible for our educators. While many think they are being "culturally relevant" in their instruction and interactions with students at all levels, what they may view as culturally relevant curriculum may be, in fact, multi culturalism.====