{"id":30093,"date":"2026-03-25T21:40:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=30093"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:44:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:44:05","slug":"ever-heard-of-culturally-responsive-pedagogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=30093","title":{"rendered":"Ever heard of culturally responsive pedagogy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s good to go to a new place and engage with a new subject. So it was that, this evening, I was at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at University College London (UCL) for the launch of a book titled <strong>&#8220;Culture and Science Education: Towards More Inclusive Practice&#8221;<\/strong>. The event was chaired by the co-editor of the book who is a friend of mine, Professor Justin Dillon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a rather different event from my own book launch a week ago (check out <strong>&#8220;Everyone Has A Story<\/strong>&#8221; on Amazon). Thanks to a failure by the publisher Bloomsbury, there are no copies of the book currently available, whereas I self-published my book in time to give all attendees at the launch a free and signed copy. The Bloomsbury book will retail at \u00a390, whereas Amazon is only charging \u00a37.99 for mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Above all, of course, the subject matter of the book and the launch is utterly unfamiliar to me. So I learned a new acronym: CRP which stands for culturally responsive pedagogy. In non-academic language, this means teaching in a style which takes proper account of cultural background of the students, including issues like ethnicity, gender and language. Makes sense to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event reminded me of an exchange I had with my mother when I was studying physics at school. I told her that my teacher was Scottish and it seemed to me that so many important scientists were Scottish: Maxwell, Kelvin, Watt &#8230; My Italian mother responded by advising me that, when she was at school, she was taught that all the greatest scientists were Italian: Galileo, Da Vinci, Marconi &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s good to go to a new place and engage with a new subject. So it was that, this evening, I was at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at University College London (UCL) for the launch of a book titled &#8220;Culture and Science Education: Towards More Inclusive Practice&#8221;. The event was chaired by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30095,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30093\/revisions\/30095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}