4R Equation
(R + R) x R = R
Culturally Validating that is Responsive Pedagogy
Relevance
Realness
Relationship
Rigor
“The mere imparting of information is not education. ”
―Carter G. Woodson
The 4R Equation tool provides a mathematical approach to understanding the R in the CLEAR Model. Application of the 4R Equation helps provide clarity about what responsiveness looks like in practice.
In addition, the 4R Equation tool helps provide a formula for how to become more pragmatic about being responsive and how that can transform learning and experience into validating experiences full of vigor.
Relevance
- Relation to the matter at hand
- Practical and especially social applicability
- Pertinence
Realness
- Not artificial, fraudulent, or illusory: genuine
- Being precisely what the name implies
- Occurring or existing in actuality
- Relating to practical or everyday concerns or activities (e.g. left school to live in the real world)
Relationship
- the state of being related or interrelated
- the relation connecting or binding participants in a relationship
Rigor
- harsh inflexibility in opinion, temper, or judgment: severity
- the quality of being unyielding or inflexible: strictness
- severity of life: an act or instance of strictness, severity, or cruelty
- a condition that makes life difficult, challenging, or uncomfortable
Vigor
- active bodily or mental strength or force
- active healthy well-balanced growth
- intensity of action or effect: force
Responsive Decision Making Matrix
