Affective Thought, Personalized Democracy, and the Council’s Multicultural Mission

DeStigter argues for an approach to teaching that transcends traditional student-teacher relationships while maintaining the presense of content knowledge and pedagogy. Culturally-informed pedagogical practices must be supplemented with the awareness of some of the likely cultural characteristics of students as well as an understanding that each student is an individual. This awareness is integrally tied to caring. Take the time, Destigter suggests, to learn as much as possible about the identities and communities of your students in order to respond with culturally sensitive classroom environments and instructional practices.