Latino/a Students' Funds of Knowledge: A Look at Home Literacy and the Opportunity for School Incorporation
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- May 5, 2020
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Parry, Elizabeth S.
- Affiliation: School of Education
- Abstract
- The literature review study addressed the importance for educators to be knowledgeable about students’ home literacies. It will address the significance of educators taking on the role of an ethnographer within their classroom. It specifically addressed Latino/a students. The main research questions posed in this study are the following: 1) What is significant about Latino literacy practices? 2) What are pedagogical implications for engaging Latino funds of knowledge? 3) What is the importance, socio-politically and academically, of Latino students’ cultural identities? The study provides key definitions of funds of knowledge and literacy, contextual information and historical information on Latino/s in the United States, with a demographic focus on North Carolina. Following this, key theory and practices in relation to funds of knowledge will be discussed. In the results, pedagogical practices related to the theories and practices from the literature review will be given. By using qualitative methods, such as learning about the family histories of their students and their families, educators will be able to implement pedagogical practices that fit toward the needs of the students within their specific classroom.
- Date of publication
- spring 2017
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- Funding: None
- Advisor
- Dominguez, Michael
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts
- Honors level
- Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2017
- Language
- English
- Extent
- 71
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