EDG 705: Culturally Responsive Teaching: Databases

Search terms for any database

Search Terms for Any Database

Use these search terms across databases.

• active learning
• ally; allyship
• asset-based, asset-mapping
• bias
• collaborative learning
• people/students of color
• compassion
• counterstories; counterstorytelling
• critical race theory/methodology
• cultural humility
• culturally relevant/responsive
• decolonizing; decolonial; decolonization
• ethnic
• equitable; equity-minded
• feminist pedagogy
• global education
• Hispanic-serving
• inclusive
• Indigenization; Indigenous
• integration
• international; internationalization
• intercultural / crosscultural / cultural
• intersectionality; intersectional
• liberatory pedagogy
• marginalized
• mindful; mindfulness
• minority
• multicultural
• nontraditional
• positionality
• race; racial
• radical pedagogies
• reconciliation; truth and reconciliation
• resilience
• social justice
• trauma-informed practice
• underrepresented
• undocumented
• universal design

Search Strategies

The following canned searches can be used to retrieve relevant articles. They will save the researcher time from developing a search strategy from scratch.

Academic Search Ultimate   

1. decolonization AND curriculum

2. (online learning or e-learning or distance learning) AND "critical pedagogy" 

3. "testimonio" AND "Hispanic" AND "education" 

4. "culturally responsive teaching" AND "higher education"

5. "Hispanic serving" AND "student success"  

6. (stem education or science or technology or engineering or mathematics) AND diversity curriculum

ERIC

1. Transformative Learning AND Hispanics  

2. Transformative Learning AND Hispanics AND Writing

3. Transformative Learning AND Hispanics AND STEM

4. Music education AND Hispanic Americans

Google Scholar

1. "culturally responsive curriculum" AND "STEM"

2. "decolonizing curriculum" AND "biology"

3. "Hispanic serving" AND "writing" AND "curriculum"

Search Terms for ERIC

The ERIC database has some very powerful
educational subject terms.

Here are some examples you can use.

• Culturally relevant education
• Race
• Social discrimination
• Transformative learning
• Teaching methods
• Postsecondary education
• Multicultural education
• Ethnic groups
• Racial discrimination
• Social justice
• Instructional innovation
• Higher education
• Social integration
• Minority groups
• Social distance
• Critical literacy
• Classroom environment
• Nontraditional students
• Inclusion
• Student diversity
• Gender bias
• Student centered learning
• Course content