EDUB3724 - 2023 Learning Unit 1, Week 2

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The main focus of Learning Unit 1 is to consider alternatives to becoming a culturally responsive
teacher.
The EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES for this week are to:
1) gain a conceptual understanding of culturally relevant pedagogy;
2) consider the potential of cultural relevant pedagogy for handling diversity in the SA context; and
3) imagine the possibilities of education for democratic citizenship and the mutuality of friendship
for culturally relevant pedagogy, an inclusive pedagogical approach and teacher agency.

EXPECTATIONS for this week:

1. Attend the Lecture (Week 2, LU 1) on the cultural relevant pedagogy

2. Access information on the implications of education for democratic citizenship and

the mutuality of friendship for handling diversity in the classroom

3. Revisit the BB self-study worksheet 2 on potential and possibilities

4. Access Tutorial Groups. Tutors will establish contact.

5. Assessment: Information about the Online Individual Case Study Analysis and
Application: Assessment will be available from 29 September @ 08:00 – 03 October

ovember @ 16:30 _

slides will be weekly uploaded under each learning unit.

RE-ASSIGNED READINGS for this week (available on Bb):

Ladson-Billings, G. 1995. But that’s just good teaching! The case for culturally relevant pedagogy.
Theory into Practice, 34(3): 159-165.
Mafuwane, B.M. and Mahlangu, V.P. 2015. Teaching Practices Responsive to Cross-Border Education
of Learners from Culturally Diverse Settings: A South African Perspective. Mediterranean
Journal of Social Sciences, 6(1): 560-567.
Waghid, Y. 2009. Patriotism and Democratic Citizenship Education in South Africa: On the
(im)possibility of reconciliation and nation building. Educational Philosophy and Theory,
41(4): 399-409. (Focus on pp 400 – 404).

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