This approach combines the transformation approach with activities to strive for social change.

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Social Action
Approach

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This approach combines the transformation approach
with activities to strive for social change.
● Students are not only instructed
to understand and question
social issues, but to also do
something about it. (University
of Northern Iowa, 2020, para. 4).

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● what actions should we take to reduce prejudice and discrimination in our school
LEARNERS STUDY A SOCIAL PROBLEM SUCH AS
WHAT DO THE LEARNERS DO?
 Gather data
 Analyze their values and beliefs
 Synthesize their knowledge and values
 Identify alternative course of action
 DECIDE what action they will take

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● the goal of this approach is not only to teach students to
respect differences between groups but the most
important thing is to allow them to negotiate and recognize
inequality and discrimination in the school and society thus
empowering them to become actively involved in groups
that works for a change.
MAIN GOAL

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● An equity pedagogy exists when teachers modify their teaching in ways that will
facilitate the academic achievement of students from diverse racial, cultural,
socioeconomic, and language groups.
● An equity pedagogy rejects the cultural deprivation paradigm that was developed
in the early 1960s. This paradigm posited that the socialization experiences in the
home and community of low-income students prevented them from attaining the
knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for academic success.
● An equity pedagogy assumes that students from diverse cultures and groups
come to school with many strengths.
An equity pedagogy

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● It intends to challenge fundamental societal structures of inequity
by equipping students with basic skills which will help them
be facilitators for social change.
● Equity pedagogy plays an enormous role in theeducation, not just
to students in the racial or ethnic minority, but for all students. As a
teacher in a culturally diverse district, it is essential to understand
the many characteristics of students, including race, religion,
socioeconomic status, or heritage.

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● Equity Pedagogy is teaching practices focused on
whom we teach, what we teach and how we teach
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Equity pedagogy has been defined as "teaching
strategies and classroom environments that help
students from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural
groups attain the knowledge, skills, and attitudes
needed to function effectively within, and create and
perpetuate, a just, humane, and democratic society"