It is contingent on... seeing cultural differences as assets; creating caring learning communities where culturally different individuals and heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically diverse
cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students; challenging racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based on race,
culture, ethnicity, and
class; and
accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»
Kelley brings to these projects an ironic sensibility and stringent conceptual processes, tending to layer the
accepted high - art practices like painting with craft, working
class and popular
culture references.