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Were There Any Black People in Johnstown?” An Investigation of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in Service of Supporting Disciplinary Literacy Learning in History

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ID10857276
AuthorsLinda Kucan (University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA, corresponding author), Byeong-Young Cho (University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA), Byeong‐young Cho (0000-0001-6489-2245, University of Pittsburgh)
Year2022
Volume57
Issue6
Pages1079-1106
Publication date2022-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0042-0859 • E-ISSN: 1552-8340
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0042085918804011
OpenAlexW2896532348
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited29

This case study describes how culturally relevant pedagogy can be used in disciplinary rigorous ways in an urban middle school history classroom. The focus is on a unit about the Johnstown Flood of 1889, which provided a setting for teaching about the event as well as the historical thinking practices of contextualizing, sourcing, and corroborating. The teacher supported students’ cultural and academic competence for learning both historical content and historical thinking about that content by capitalizing on their funds of knowledge, making use of accessible cultural referents, and sharing personal narratives

Competence (human resources) · Cultural competence · Discipline · Historical Thinking · Literacy · Narrative · Pedagogy · Social science · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Psychology · Social Psychology

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Citations per year1
Citation span2023 - 2026 (4)
Highly citedNo

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