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      “We wanted to see if you were the real deal”: Teaching as a cultural practice in a challenging environment

      Lemon, Katrina Suezanne; Edwards, Frances
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       10.15663/tandc.v17i1.153
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      Lemon, K. S., & Edwards, F. (2017). ‘We wanted to see if you were the real deal’: Teaching as a cultural practice in a challenging environment. Teachers and Curriculum, 17(1), 39–44. https://doi.org/10.15663/tandc.v17i1.153
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/11592
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      Teaching can be viewed as a cultural practice in which teaching is embedded in the culture of the teacher and informed by the culture of the students (Bell, 2011). In this paper, a narrative is presented detailing an authentic example of teaching in New Zealand in which culture is prioritised. It describes the challenges faced by a young female teacher as she worked in a low decile secondary school with male students, the majority of whom were involved in the Mongrel Mob[1] gang. Her approach and responses were centred in her belief in culturally responsive teaching. The deliberate actions of the teacher led to a turning point for the students, allowing their mana to remain intact as she acknowledged their identity, language and culture. This teacher’s experience provides an example of how a teacher can enable learners in diverse classrooms to succeed in their learning.
      Date
      2017
      Type
      Journal Article
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      Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, the University of Waikato
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      © 2017 copyright with the authors. The article is published under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) License.
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