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One of the biggest concerns often mentioned by pre-service early childhood teachers is how to find ways to meaningfully connect and address the needs of students and families from diverse cultures and life-experiences. Creating a classroom environment that naturally embraces and encourages individualized-culturally responsive practices is not always an easy task, especially when teachers express concerns about being uneasy and not completely sure about their own effectiveness on ways to make it happen meaningfully.
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González, K. (2016). Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Early Childhood Classrooms. In: Welch, A.G., Areepattamannil, S. (eds) Dispositions in Teacher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-552-4_11
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