Excellence and Equity Require Cultural Competence | Christine Sleeter

Many educators regard teaching increasingly diverse student populations as a challenge that can be met best by treating all as if they were the same. Drawing on her own experience as a teacher and teacher educator, and her research in social justice-oriented multicultural education and ethnic studies, Sleeter shows why excellence and equity require educators to develop cultural competence, and what culturally competent teaching can look like in the classroom.

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