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Editors' Notes, Brooks R. Vostal, Jonathan D. Bostic, Christy Galletta Horner, Kristina Lavenia, Jeanne Novak
Editors' Notes, Brooks R. Vostal, Jonathan D. Bostic, Christy Galletta Horner, Kristina Lavenia, Jeanne Novak
Mid-Western Educational Researcher
Editors' Notes
Funds Of Knowledge And Early Literacy: A Mixed Methods Study, Ami Butler, Debra Miretzky
Funds Of Knowledge And Early Literacy: A Mixed Methods Study, Ami Butler, Debra Miretzky
Mid-Western Educational Researcher
When teachers are charged with educating students who are racially, culturally, or economically different from them, they may have little information on the culture and the expectations for family involvement, of their students. This lack of information may lead to perceptions of working-class families, in particular, as socially disorganized and intellectually deficient. Research embodying the theoretical framework of Funds of Knowledge (FoK) attempts to counter this deficit model through its assertion that all families possess extensive bodies of knowledge that have developed through social, historical, political, and economic contexts. The purpose of this study was to carefully examine one Hispanic …