Home-school Connections In A Multicultural Society: Learning From And With Culturally And Linguistically Diverse Families (language, Culture, And Teaching Series)
by Maria Luiza Dantas /
2009 / English / PDF
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Educators everywhere confront critical issues related to
families, schooling, and teaching in diverse settings. Directly
addressing this reality,
Educators everywhere confront critical issues related to
families, schooling, and teaching in diverse settings. Directly
addressing this reality,Home-School Connections in a
Multicultural Society
Home-School Connections in a
Multicultural Society 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.
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.
Combining engaging cases and relevant key concepts with
thought-provoking pedagogical features, this valuable resource
for educators at all levels:
Combining engaging cases and relevant key concepts with
thought-provoking pedagogical features, this valuable resource
for educators at all levels:Provides detailed portraits of diverse families that
highlight their unique cultural practices related to schooling
and the challenges that their children face in school settings
Provides detailed portraits of diverse families that
highlight their unique cultural practices related to schooling
and the challenges that their children face in school settingsIntroduces key sociocultural and ethnographic concepts, in
ways that are both accessible and challenging, and applies these
concepts as lenses through which to examine the portraits
Introduces key sociocultural and ethnographic concepts, in
ways that are both accessible and challenging, and applies these
concepts as lenses through which to examine the portraitsShows how teachers and researchers have worked with diverse
families to build positive relationships and develop learning
activities that incorporate children’s unique experiences and
resources
Shows how teachers and researchers have worked with diverse
families to build positive relationships and develop learning
activities that incorporate children’s unique experiences and
resources
Disrupting deficit assumptions about the experiences and
knowledge that culturally and linguistically diverse children
acquire in their homes and communities, this book engages readers
in grappling deeply and personally with the chapters’ meanings
and implications, and in envisioning their own practical ways to
learn from and with families and children.
Disrupting deficit assumptions about the experiences and
knowledge that culturally and linguistically diverse children
acquire in their homes and communities, this book engages readers
in grappling deeply and personally with the chapters’ meanings
and implications, and in envisioning their own practical ways to
learn from and with families and children.
