Home-school connections in a multicultural society : learning from and with culturally and linguistically diverse families /

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

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dantas, Maria Luiza, Manyak, Patrick C. (Patrick Charles)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2010.
Colección:Language, culture, and teaching.
Temas:
Home schooling > Social aspects > United States.
Multicultural education > United States.
Education, Bilingual > United States.
Éducation interculturelle > États-Unis.
École à la maison > Aspect social > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Parent Participation.
Education, Bilingual
Multicultural education
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Home-school (dis)connections. "Lost boys," cousins and aunties: using Sudanese refugee relationships to complicate definitions of "family"
  • The impact of social dynamics on immigrant children's language and literacy practices: learning from Asian families
  • a mother and daughter go to school: a story of strengths and challenges
  • Discontinuities and differences among Muslim Arab-Americans: making it at home and school
  • Building connections between homes and schools
  • Fostering academic identities among Latino immigrant students: contextualizing parents' roles
  • Part II. Curriculum transformations: learning with families. Do you hear what I hear?: using the parent story approach to listen to and learn from African American parents
  • Home visits: learning from students and families
  • Networks of support: learning from the other teachers in children's lives
  • Issues in funds of knowledge teaching and research: key concepts from a study of Appalachian families and schooling
  • How knowledge counts: talking family knowledge and lived experience into being as resource for academic action
  • Respecting children's cultural and linguistic knowledge: the pedagogical possibilities and challenges of multiliteracies in schools
  • Part III. Conclusion. Home--school--community collaborations in uncertain times.

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