What is cultural humility and how does it apply to education?

• A. Cultural humility is achieved by learning all possible cultural customs before teaching.
• B. Cultural humility means you should avoid feedback from clients.
• C. Ongoing self-evaluation of biases, openness to learning from clients, respectful adaptation of strategies, and seeking feedback from clients.
• D. Cultural humility requires maintaining a fixed set of strategies regardless of client input.

Answer: (C)

Cultural humility in education is an ongoing practice of recognizing that our own cultural assumptions shape how we teach, and continually examining our biases while learning from students' experiences. It means being open to new information from learners and their families, adjusting instructional approaches in respectful ways to fit diverse cultural contexts, and actively inviting and using feedback to improve teaching. This aligns with the described approach because it emphasizes self-reflection, learning from students, adaptable strategies, and seeking feedback. By contrast, trying to learn every cultural custom beforehand treats culture as a fixed checklist, avoiding feedback blocks growth, and sticking to a fixed set of strategies ignores students' voices and needs.