Ana Maria Villegas and Tamara Lucas introduce some important concepts in their article The Culturally Responsive Teacher. The growth of ethnic/racial students, being 41% in 2003, as well as one if five students speaks a non-English language at home, eliminates the Anglo-Saxon centered conception of contemporary education. The authors introduce the concept of teaching in a "constructivist view of learning" that entails figuring out how to create bridges between differences cultural and or linguistic background students often have in the classroom.
The perspective "sociocultural consciousness," the authors have different focuses. Such a perspective contains both relativist postmodern like tendencies, where a "person's worldview is not universal but is profoundly influenced by life experiences" coupled with a socio-political perspective where education can make "powerful connections between social and education inequities." Diversity centered pedagogy walks through a park of systems. Advocating for different cultural groups to have their own mutually exclusive representation, as well as not ignoring historical and structural systems that have reproduced inequalities and experiences of subjugation.
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