NEW BOOK! Teaching Humanities with Cultural Responsiveness at HBCUs and HSIs

DuEwa Frazier
3 min readMar 5, 2024
Teaching Humanities with Cultural Responsiveness at HBCUs and HSIs @IGIGLOBAL

The great educator in which Bethune Cookman College an Historically Black College and University in Daytona Beach, Florida is named after, Mary McLeod Bethune once stated, “Education is the great American adventure, the world’s most colossal democratic experiment.” If it is in fact that education serves as an adventure and democratic experiment, then it is the role of today’s 21st century educators, faculty, teachers in training, program directors, and curriculum developers, to practice culturally responsive pedagogies advocating for that democracy in learning, and mirroring the complex needs and cultural backgrounds of our students who hold within them the keys for a technologically current, environmentally sound, globally connected, reflective and interdisciplinary way of thinking, leading, working, communicating, and creating. The new edited volume speaks to the philosophy of Mary McLeod Bethune and others who have championed diverse learners on the path to attaining college degrees.

The new edited book volume, Teaching Humanities with Cultural Responsiveness at HBCUs and HSIs Edited by DuEwa M. Frazier (2024, IGI Global) seeks to highlight the research of scholars from the disciplines of humanities and education, who have valuable insights on culturally responsive pedagogies in the humanities, teacher…

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