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This website features work from the completion of Phase 1 of the SCALES Project.

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Culturally Sustained Learning

Culturally sustaining learning not only affirms students’ cultural backgrounds, but finds ways to sustain them through their education. Culturally sustaining learning should take place throughout all of the types of learning, however to guarantee that it occurs, it is identified as its own approach. 

  • Case Question 6

    Case Write-up Questions
    The following selected case has questions to be addressed and written up. Students should work in teams of three to four. The questions address aspects of the case that need further analysis.

    In one page! What is the solution to the problem of income inequality in a developed nation?

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  • Discussion Question – Ecology

    In the transcript of Slavoj Žižek’s conversation from Examined Life, he says, "the true ecologist must also accept that nature is the ultimate human myth, that we humans, when we perceive ourselves as beyond nature, exploiting nature and so on, we also, through this opposition, create a certain image of nature. And that idealized image of nature is the ultimate obstacle to ecology. So, again, this is why my formula is ecology without nature. The first duty is to drop this heavily ideologically mythological, invested notion of nature." What do you think? What are the two notions of "ecology" he is comparing? Do you agree? 

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