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Gloria Ladson-Billings is a lead scholar in the area of multicultural education. Her work in this field includes the following publications.
Books
1994 The Dream-Keepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children
2021 Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Asking a Different Question (Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies Series) *** This body of work includes multiple articles she has written over the years on the subject of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy including the two listed below.
Articles
1995 Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
1995 But that’s just good teaching! The case for culturally relevant pedagogy
In addition to Gloria Ladson-Billings' foundational contributions to multicultural education, there are multiple researchers who have also provided significant additions to the body of work.
Geneva Gay
In 2000, Dr. Gay published, her first edition of Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice (now in it's third edition). She coined and defined Culturally Responsive Teaching as, "using the cultural knowledge, prior experiences, frames of reference, and performance styles of ethnically diverse students to make learning encounters more relevant to and effective for them. It is culturally validating and affirming".
Also in 2001, Dr. Howard published two articles adding to the culturally relevant body of literature. They were, Powerful pedagogy for African American students: A case of four teachers and Telling their side of the story: African-American students' perceptions of culturally relevant teaching. Emerging themes from his research include (a) Holistic instructional strategies; (b) culturally consistent communicative competencies; (c) skill-building strategies to promote academic success.
Tyrone Howard
Christine Sleeter
Dr. Sleeter, published an article in 2001 called, Preparing Teachers for Culturally Diverse Schools: Research and the overwhelming presence of whiteness. She argues that research up until that point had not addressed how to create a teaching profession with quality multicultural teachers.
Paris and Alim published, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World in 2017. These scholars suggest the starting point that Ladson-billings gave needs to be sustainable given the ever-changing world and added a new element of youth culture to the conversation of multicultural education.
Here is a video that explains the difference between Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy.
Samy Alim
Django Paris
In 2021, Dr. Welborn and her colleagues published the first cultural proficiency book that is research based, Leading Change Through the Lens of Cultural Proficiency: An Equitable Approach to Race and Social Class in Our Schools.
You can learn more about Jaime's research and the "Tools of Cultural Proficiency" here.
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