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Teachers Re-Imagining Parental Involvement: Using Parents' Funds Of Knowledge In Math Lesson Designs, Enyinnaya Onyeukwu
Teachers Re-Imagining Parental Involvement: Using Parents' Funds Of Knowledge In Math Lesson Designs, Enyinnaya Onyeukwu
Doctor of Education in Secondary and Middle Grades Education Dissertations
Abstract
Students often possess unique extensive bodies of knowledge that they have acquired through social, historical, and cultural backgrounds and experiences from their homes that are valuable in the teaching and learning of mathematics. This study, “Teachers Re-Imagining Parental Involvement: Using Parents’ Funds of Knowledge in Math Lesson Designs” used a qualitative single-case research design, bounded contextually within a church congregation located in a suburban community in the southwestern United States, included six parents of middle grade students and two middle grade mathematics teachers. The study utilized questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis to gather data to explore how Black …