Funds Of Knowledge For Teaching. Using a qualitative approach to connect homes and classrooms. 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.
Funds of knowledge for teaching. 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. Offering opportunities to have the student bring in family artifacts to connect.
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.
This approach rejects a deficit. 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. 31 qualitative issues in educational research pp. It is the knowledge and expertise that students and their family members have because of their roles in their families communities and culture.
