Looking for a little inspiration / Dawn Abt-Perkins -- Clashes and confrontations with culturally relevant pedagogy / Lisa Scherff and Karen Spector -- Recognizing culturally relevant pedagogy : then and now / Victoria M. Whitfield -- Unpacking the critical in culturally relevant pedagogy : an illustration involving African Americans and Asian Americans / Eileen Carlton Parsons and Steven Wall -- Race, identity, and the shredding of a district survey : following children into relevance in an urban elementary classroom / Elizabeth Dutro, Elham Kazemi, and Ruth Balf -- The central paradox of critical pedagogy : learning from practice in an urban "last chance" high school / Kysa Nygreen -- From understanding to application : the difficulty of culturally responsive teaching as a beginning English teacher / Melanie Shoffner and Matthew Brown -- Lotus : a pedagogy of listening / Jacqueline Deal -- Reading Romeo and Juliet and talking sex : critical ideological consciousness as ethical practice / Karen Spector -- "'Proper' Spanish is a waste of time" : Mexican-origin student resistance to learning Spanish as a heritage language / Kimberly Adilia Helmer -- Bodies before me / Stephanie Jones -- The distance of formality : working within (and through) propriety / Aaron M. Kuntz.

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