Cathy Coulter (University of Alaska, USA), Margarita Jimenez-Silva (Arizona State University, USA)
Today's schools compartmentalize children and curriculum. Standardization dictates curricular content and assessment, narrowing the focus of classrooms and schools that serve diverse populations from varied geographical backgrounds. Against the backdrop of the western-derived, institutional framework of schooling are cultural ways of knowing that are place-based, holistic, experiential, and connected to oral storytelling. In the current movement toward acknowledging and understanding cultural knowledge, teacher education programs need to work in collaboration with cultural communities,...
Today's schools compartmentalize children and curriculum. Standardization dictates curricular content and assessment, narrowing the focus of classroom...
