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Summary:

"The concept of 'funds of knowledge' is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge. The claim in this book is that first-hand research experiences with families allow one to document this competence and knowledge, and that such engagement provides many possibilities for positive pedagogical actions. Drawing from both Vygotskian and neo-sociocultural perspectives in designing a methodology that views the everyday practices of language and action as constructing knowledge, the funds of knowledge approach facilitates a systematic and powerful way to represent communities in terms of the resources they possess and how to harness them for classroom teaching. This book accomplishes three objectives: It gives readers the basic methodology and techniques followed in the contributors' funds of knowledge research; it extends the boundaries of what these researchers have done; and it explores the applications to classroom practice that can result from teachers knowing the communities in which they work"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Beyond culture : the hybridity of funds of knowledge / Norma González
• Formation and transformation of funds of knowledge / Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez and James Greenberg
• Funds of knowledge for teaching : using a qualitative approach to connect homes and classrooms / Luis Moll [and others]
• Funds of knowledge for teaching in Latino households / Norma González [and others]
• La visita / Martha Floyd Tenery
• Beyond a beads and feathers approach / Cathy Amanti
• Empowering parents of multicultural backgrounds / Marla Hensley
• Home is where the heart is : a funds of knowledge-based curriculum module / Patricia Sandoval-Taylor
• Border crossings : funds of knowledge within an immigrant household / Anne Browning-Aiken
• Social reconstructions of schooling : teacher evaluations of what they learned from participation in the funds of knowledge project / Jacqueline Messing
• Funds of knowledge and team ethnography : reciprocal approaches / Marcia Brenden
• Preservice teachers enter urban communities : coupling funds of knowledge research and critical pedagogy in teacher education / Patricia Buck and Paul Skilton Sylvester
• Reflections on the study of households in New York City and Long Island : a different route, a common destination / Carmen Mercado
• Funds of distributed knowledge / Norma González, Rosi Andrade, Marta Civil, and Luis Moll
• Reflections and possibilities / Luis Moll.

Contributors:

González, Norma , editor

Moll, Luis C. , editor

Amanti, Cathy , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Funds of knowledge (Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005 — ISBN 0805849173; ISBN 0805849181; LCCN 2004048707; OCLC Number 55765256)

Subjects:

Home and school — United States

Teachers and community — United States

Place-based education — United States

Children with social disabilities — Education — United States

Teaching — Social aspects — United States

Home and school

Teachers and community

Place-based education

Children with social disabilities — Education

Children with social disabilities

Teaching — Social aspects

Teaching

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 307 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LC225.3 .T54 2005eb

ISBNs:

9781410613462 (electronic book)
1410613461 (electronic book)
9780805849172 (cloth) [Invalid]
0805849173 (cloth) [Invalid]
9780805849189 (paperback) [Invalid]
0805849181 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2004048707 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

70780888