Description
| 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.
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| Item Description: | "This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009."--Title page verso. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 307 pages) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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| ISBN: | 9781410613462
1410613461 |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed August 23, 2023). |
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