For schools to become foundations of social justice, educators need to promote and practice what Ladson-Billings calls cultural relevant pedagogy. The three essential components of a cultural relevant pedagogy include academic achievement, cultural competence, and social-political consciousness. Edu...

The family is the mainspring of support of every kind. It mobilizes psychological resources and alleviates emotional burdens. It allows for the sharing of tasks, provides material goods together with cognitive training. It is the prime socialization agent and encourages the absorption of information...

A Patriarchy is the power of the fathers. Passed on through generation to generation. Social, ideological ideas in the political system in which men by force direct pressure through ritual, tradition, law, language, customs, etiquette, education, and the division of labor that determine what part wo...