The Cultural Mosaic and Culturally Responsive Teaching at Higher Secondary Level

This paper aims to study the perceptions of teachers regarding Cultural Mosaic and Culturally Responsive Teaching. Culturally responsive teaching is an umbrella term which consists of a variety of methodologies. In all approaches of culturally responsive teaching, an equity-centered approach stresses learners' ethnicity at the core of the learning process and uses the ''cultural knowledge, previous experiences, frames of reference, and learning styles of culturally diverse scholars''. In an environment where a cultural Mosaic situation prevails, culturally responsive teaching shall be promulgated as it reduces the stress level of learners which results in a better teaching-learning process. According to different