Does Culturally Relevant Teaching Work? An Examination From Student Perspectives

SAGE Open

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Byrd, Christy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

academic outcomes; cultural socialization; culturally relevant teaching; ethnic racial identity; racial socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989311595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21582440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2158244016660744     Document Type: Article

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