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Culturally Sustaining Literacy Practices: What's Possible in the Elementary Classroom

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: ABSTRACT The educational landscape in the United States continues to grow increasingly diverse, with students bringing multiple cultures and languages into elementary classrooms. This rapid change in demographics has caused tension in schools and classrooms, as students from historically marginalized backgrounds continue to experience inequitable instruction. One way that scholars and teacher educators have sought to increase teachers' ability to work with culturally and linguistically diverse youth is through a framework of culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogies. The purpose of this study is to review literature focused on culturally relevant and sustaining practices in the elementary literacy classroom to highlight the possibilities of what teachers and students can achieve together when teaching and learning are done in a culturally sustaining way.

Source: The Reading Teacher

DOI: 10.1002/trtr.70008

Authors: Heather Dunham, Oluwaseun Ayobami Oti

Institution: Clemson University

Language: English

Topic: Teacher Education and Leadership Studies

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,760