Overview

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the social and organizational factors shaping K-16 teachers' cultural learning processes, through both a systematic review of the extant literature on K-12 urban teacher thinking and interviews with instructional staff at a high-performing minority serving institution (MSI). It highlights common challenges K-16 educators face in navigating cultural differences between themselves and their students. Drawing from cultural psychology, organizational behavior, and organizational psychology, the book offers evidence-based insights for creating school systems in which educators working with students from low-income and other minoritized cultural communities can critically examine and challenge their cultural assumptions to create more inclusive and supportive learning environments for all students, as well as develop and implement more culturally responsive classroom management practices.

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Author:   Tiffany Brown
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9781009377041

ISBN 10:   1009377043
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   03 April 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: how cultural learning matters for educators everywhere; 1. An action science approach to cultural learning in urban schools and minority serving institutions (MSIs); 2. Directly observable data on K-12 teachers in urban schools; 3. Culturally accepted meanings and understandings K-12 educators accept about students from MCCs; 4. Individual action strategies urban K-12 teachers use at work; 5. Collective action strategies urban teachers use for cultural learning at work; 6. Single-loop learning and double-loop learning conditions in urban schools; 7. Implications from the systematic review for four types of cultural learning K-12 urban teachers engage in at work; 8. Empirical research on college faculty thinking and action in MSIs; 9. Faculty value orientations for single-loop learning and double-loop learning at work with students from LIMCCS; 10. Consequences of model i and model ii values for learning across student–teacher cultural differences in MSIs; 11. Faculty variance in use of traditional and culturally responsive classroom management strategies; 12. Consequences of variance in use of traditional and culturally responsive classroom management strategies for learning across student–teacher differences in MSIs; 13. Implications from the empirical data for instructor learning across cultures in MSIs; Conclusion: reconciling the knowing–doing gap for K-16 Educators in urban schools and MSIs.

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Tiffany Brown is an organizational psychologist and adult learning expert whose work is focused on how cultural politics shape professional and psychological experiences in multicultural organizations. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service studying cultural politics at Georgetown University, a Master of Arts in social-organizational psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, as well as a Master of Education in policy and management and a PhD in Education from Harvard University. She previously taught courses in psychology and urban studies at the City University of New York, as well as in organizational studies and educational leadership at the University of Connecticut.

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