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- Title
Improving Educational Outcomes for Pasifika Learners Through Culturally-Responsive Pedagogy.
- Authors
Easthope-Harper, Sharlene
- Abstract
Culturally-responsive teaching, culturally-responsive practice, culturally-responsive pedagogy and/or culturally-relevant pedagogy are all terms for pedagogical practices which emphasise using the cultural background, knowledge, language and identity, characteristics, lived experiences, or cultural capital of ethnically diverse students to improve their educational outcomes. This paper reports on a professional inquiry which sought to identify how culturally-responsive practices are embedded in teachers' pedagogy and how I can, in my professional role as a Resource Teacher: Learning and Behaviour (RTLB), support teachers' cultural responsiveness to be confident and competent to improve educational outcomes for Pasifika learners in particular. Through the process of thematic analysis, three key themes emerged: cultural competence, cultural responsiveness, and beliefs and attitudes. The need for specific Pasifika professional development with an emphasis on culture, language and identity with Pasifika core values underpinning Pasifika pedagogy is considered as a future action.
- Subjects
EDUCATION of Pacific Islanders; EDUCATIONAL outcomes; ACADEMIC achievement; EDUCATIONAL objectives; ACADEMIC underachievement
- Publication
Kairaranga, 2018, Vol 19, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
1175-9232
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.54322/kairaranga.v19i1.295