Cultural Aesthetics and Teacher Improvisation: An Epistemology of Providing Culturally Responsive Service by African American Professors

Urban Education

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 604-629

  Mitchell, Roland ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

critical pedagogy; improvisation; racial cultural difference

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955860292     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085909347839     Document Type: Article

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