Funds Of Knowledge For Teaching. Using a qualitative approach to connect homes and classrooms. Funds of knowledge for teaching.
Using a qualitative approach to connect homes and classrooms we form part of a collaborative project between education and anthropology that is studying household and classroom practices within working class mexican communities in tucson arizona. The funds of knowledge approach builds on a social development and learning theory arguing for an acknowledgement of children s home and community experiences and exploring how teachers and schools may use these funds of knowledge to help individual children to create personalised ways of knowing. The authors define the key term funds of knowledge as the skills and knowledge that have been historically and culturally developed to enable an individual or household to function within a given culture and argue that integrating funds of knowledge into classroom activities creates a richer and more highly scaffolded learning experience for students.
Funds of knowledge applies the knowledge and skills of daily household routines to create meaningful and innovative approaches to classroom teaching and learning.
Offering opportunities to have the student bring in family artifacts to connect. Funds of knowledge for teaching. Funds of knowledge are collections of knowledge based in cultural practices that are a part of families inner culture work experience or their daily routine. Offering opportunities to have the student bring in family artifacts to connect.
