4R Equation
(R + R) x R = R
Relevance
Realness
Relationship
Rigor
“The mere imparting of information is not education. ”
―Carter G. Woodson
The 4R Equation provides a mathematical approach to understanding the R in the CLEAR Model. Application of the 4R Equation helps provide clarity about what cultural validation looks like in practice.
In addition, the 4R Equation tool helps provide a formula for how to become more pragmatic about being validating and how that can transform learning experiences 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
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