{THIS IS AN EXCERPT OF HIS FULL SPEECH} So don't miss it next year!
Our keynote speaker, Django Paris, who pushes against the status quo respect for standardized English-and goes a lot further. Apparently there’s a broad continuum between teaching informed by deficit views and ... Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies. What does it really mean to honor what our students bring with them, their languages, world views, ways of interacting with others?
Our conference theme for this year is Language at The Heart: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy. “How can we teach in a way that “perpetuates and fosters-sustains-our students’ languages, literacies and cultures?” And we go about this questioning and piloting whole-heartedly-because anything less isn’t good enough. Whole-hearted, full-hearted, never half-hearted.
Django Paris is currently associate professor of language and literacy in the Department of Teacher Education and Core Faculty in the African American and African Studies Program at Michigan State University. Paris was a classroom teacher in California, the Dominican Republic, and Arizona for several years before graduate school. His teaching and research focus on understanding and sustaining languages, literacies, and lifeways among youth and communities of color in the context of demographic and social change. He has published three books on teaching and researching for educational justice: Language across Difference: Ethnicity, Communication, and Youth Identities in Changing Urban Schools (2011), Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities (2014) and, most recently, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World (2017). He has also published in many academic journals, including the Harvard Educational Review and Educational Researcher. In January, 2018, Paris will join the faculty of the University of Washington, Seattle as Banks Professor and Director of the Banks Center for Educational Justice.
In our work with CSP we begin matter-of-factly with the knowledge that our languages, literacies, histories, and cultural ways of being as people and communities of color are not pathological. Beginning with this understanding . . . allows us to see the fallacy of measuring ourselves and the young people in our communities solely against White middle-class norms of knowing and being that continue to dominate notions of educational achievement…. In this work we are committed to envisioning and enacting pedagogies that are not filtered through the glass of amused contempt and pity (e.g., the “achievement gap”), but rather that are centered on contending in complex ways with the rich and innovative linguistic, literate, and cultural practices of Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian, Pacific Islander, and other youth and communities of color.
What if the goal of teaching and learning with youth of color was not ultimately to see how closely students could perform White middle-class norms, but rather was to explore, honor, extend, and, at times, problematize their cultural practices and investments?
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