Funds Of Knowledge For Teaching In Latino Households. It could be quilting or spinning wool into yarn. Urban education v29 n4 p443 70 jan 1995.
What makes using these funds of knowledge so powerful is that it is culturally relevant to students. People are competent and have knowledge and their life experiences have given them that knowledge. Teachers qualitative ethnographic study of their own students households has unfolded as a viable method for bridging the gap between school and community.
Conceptualizing the households of working class latino students as being rich in funds of knowledge has had transformative consequences for teachers parents students and researchers.
The article summarizes the teachers insights gained from their research in teacher development and teacher relationships with families and it redefines households as important social and intellectual teaching resources. Funds of knowledge for teaching in latino households. 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. It could be how to fix a car how to care for a crying baby or how to prepare a seder.
