Advancing Middle Grade Research on Critical Pedagogy: Research Synthesis
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Scope of the Literature Review
- How do teachers across content areas use and promote critical and culturally responsive teaching practices?
- What strategies and classroom practices do teachers implement that examine and challenge power relations and center culturally and linguistically diverse students?
- What is the impact of classroom implementation of critical pedagogies on young adolescent learning?
- How do educators and researchers expand the concept of critical pedagogies to include antiracist and anticolonial teaching practices for action?
2.2. Study Selection
- Critical pedagogies AND middle school or junior high or 6th, 7th, and 8th grades, AND teaching strategies or teaching methods or teaching approaches or classroom techniques;
- Antiracist teaching AND middle school or junior high or 6th, 7th, and 8th grades;
- Antiracism or anti-racism or antiracist or antiracist AND middle school or junior high or 6th, 7th, and 8th grades AND education or school or learning or teaching or classroom or education system (later added AND education to further narrow results);
- Culturally responsive teaching or culturally relevant pedagogy or culturally responsive instruction or culturally inclusive AND middle school or junior high or 6th, 7th, and 8th grades or young adolescents;
- Anticolonial or anti-colonial or decolonial AND middle school or junior high or 6th, 7th, and 8th grades or young adolescents AND education or school or learning or teaching or classroom or education system;
- Critical literacy or social justice AND teaching strategies or teaching methods or teaching approaches or classroom techniques AND middle school or junior high or 6th or 7th or 8th.
3. Results
3.1. Diverse Instructional Practices
3.2. Culturally Responsive Pedagogies
3.3. Decolonial and Antiracist Strategies
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Sub-Theme | References Included in This Literature Review |
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Diverse Instructional Approaches |
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogies |
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Decolonial and Antiracist Strategies |
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Walker, A.; Yoon, B.; Pankowski, J. Advancing Middle Grade Research on Critical Pedagogy: Research Synthesis. Educ. Sci. 2024, 14, 997. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14090997
Walker A, Yoon B, Pankowski J. Advancing Middle Grade Research on Critical Pedagogy: Research Synthesis. Education Sciences. 2024; 14(9):997. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14090997
Chicago/Turabian StyleWalker, Amy, Bogum Yoon, and Jennifer Pankowski. 2024. "Advancing Middle Grade Research on Critical Pedagogy: Research Synthesis" Education Sciences 14, no. 9: 997. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14090997