2025/02/06 by Svajda-Hardy, Megan, Kwok, Andrew
#culturally responsive classroom management #paradigmatic shift #recursive practice #socio-cultural interactions
paper · doi:10.26153/tsw/58397
Twenty years ago, Weinstein and associates’ (2003) Culturally Responsive Classroom Management (CRCM) framework began a conversation regarding the lack of cultural neutrality within traditional classroom management practices. Despite the framework’s growing attention throughout previous literature, there has yet to be substantive changes in U.S. disciplinary practices. Prior focus has been on the framework’s explicit tenets (i.e., praxis and environment); however, we argue its implicit tenets (i.e., self, other, context) to be paramount and necessitates dedicated attention. In this conceptual article, we present an alternative view of CRCM’s framework and extend the initial authors’ perspective within its core areas: self, other, context, praxis, and environment. We outline CRCM within a recursive and reflective process to be engaged throughout a teacher’s career. This paradigm offers considerations for academics and practitioners to rethink teacher preparation, and in-service support, for this key pedagogical skill to be more equitable amidst contemporary classrooms.