Category: Pedagogy

[For water, read culture.] We all have a culture and this affects our expectations about how life happens, what is right and wrong and what constitutes normal behaviour (“how we do things around here”). The point is that there is no one correct world view but that we all, without exception, see the world through…

Culturally responsive teaching can be many things. Content The most obvious starting point is looking at the subject you teach. You can find the intercultural angle of whatever subject you are teaching though some are easier than others. Cooking and languages for example include intercultural aspects almost without effort, though you can choose to be…

The term culturally responsive teaching (CRT) originates from the US and addresses mainly teachers in K12 school situations.  Here the aim is to increase motivation by making sure that every child feels valued and included. A great deal of the US focus is on closing the divide between black and white and increasingly on Latino immigrants. Here…

The Teaching Culture course will help teachers of adults get more out of their students by recognising the additional potential that those with varied cultural backgrounds bring to the room. One of the basic aims of the course will be about how to increase student motivation through culturally responsive teaching. According to Wlodkowski (pdf) such a…