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Harnessing Cultural Capital to Foster Inclusive Learning and Academic Belonging
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Presenter: Maria Sefchick (Part-time Instructor, College Success & Career Guidance).
Summary
This presentation empowers community college instructors to leverage the cultural capital framework as a transformative tool to promote inclusive learning, cultivate academic belonging, and dismantle deficit-based approaches when teaching minoritized and marginalized students. By recognizing and valuing the rich assets students bring from their communities—such as linguistic skills, familial support, resilience, and social networks—educators can shift away from framing students through the lens of “lacking” and instead embrace their strengths to enhance learning outcomes.
Slides: Harnessing Cultural Capital to Foster Inclusive Learning and Academic Belonging