Week 11 Funds of Knowledge

D. Collier

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Fatima Pirbhai-Illich

Concepts

• Deficit view• Funds of knowledge• Marginalization • Disengagement• Critical literacy• Pedagogy• Hybrid discourses

Questions• Why include families’ funds of knowledge in formal education?

• What happens or what can happen when community practices are brought into

formal educational spaces?

• What roles are possible for community members when funds of knowledge are

included?

• What are the limitations around including learners’ interests? Are there any?

• What do you think of the researcher-educator relationships in these studies?

• How can one open up school spaces for more flexibility learning styles and

interests?

• Why are these approaches radical and why are they not adopted?