Home-School Connections in a Multicultural Society: Learning From and With Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families

by Maria Luiza Dantas; University

• ISBN13: 9780415997560
• ISBN10: 0415997569
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Educators everywhere confront critical issues related to families, schooling, and teaching in diverse settings. Directly addressing this reality, this book shows pre-service and practicing teachers how to recognize and build on the rich resources for enhancing school learning that exist within culturally and linguistically diverse families.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Home-School (Dis)connections	p. 17
"Lost Boys," Cousins and Aunties: Using Sudanese Refugee Relationships to Complicate Definitions of "Family"	p. 19
The Impact of Social Dynamics on Immigrant Children's Language and Literacy Practices: Learning from Asian Families	p. 41
A Mother and Daughter Go to School: A Story of Strengths and Challenges	p. 59
Discontinuities and Differences among Muslim Arab-Americans: Making It at Home and School	p. 76
Building Connections between Homes and Schools	p. 94
Fostering Academic Identities among Latino Immigrant Students: Contextualizing Parents' Roles	p. 112
Teacher Commentary	p. 131
Curriculum Transformations: Learning with Families	p. 135
Do You Hear What I Hear?: Using the Parent Story Approach to Listen to and Learn from African American Parents	p. 137
Home Visits: Learning from Students and Families	p. 156
Networks of Support: Learning from the Other Teachers in Children's Lives	p. 177
Issues in Funds of Knowledge Teaching and Research: Key Concepts from a Study of Appalachian Families and Schooling	p. 201
How Knowledge Counts: Talking Family Knowledge and Lived Experience into Being as Resource for Academic Action	p. 218
Respecting Children's Cultural and Linguistic Knowledge: The Pedagogical Possibilities and Challenges of Multiliteracies in Schools	p. 237
Teacher Commentary	p. 257
Conclusion	p. 263
Home-School-Community Collaborations Uncertain Times	p. 265
List of Contributors	p. 279
Index	p. 281
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