Home-School Connections in a Multicultural Society: Learning From and With Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families PDF
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Home-School Connections in a Multicultural Society Educators everywhere confront critical issues related to families, schooling, and teaching in diverse settings. Directly addressing this reality, Home-School Connections in a Multi- cultural 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 linguistic- ally diverse families. Combining engaging cases and relevant key concepts with thought-provoking peda- gogical 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 • Introduces key sociocultural and ethnographic concepts, in ways that are both access- ible and challenging, and applies these concepts as lenses through which to examine the portraits • Shows how teachers and researchers have worked with diverse families to build posi- tive relationships and develop learning activities that incorporate children’s unique experiences and resources • 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 will help educators to extend their notions of learning resources, to rethink the conventional practices used to evaluate and foster students’ “readiness” for school learning, and to reconsider the types of knowledge and dispositions that teachers in a multicultural society need in order to foster student engagement and home-school connections. Maria Luiza Dantas is Educational Consultant and Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Patrick C. Manyak is Associate Professor of Literacy Education, Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, University of Wyoming. Language, Culture, and Teaching Sonia Nieto, Series Editor Dantas&Manyak(Eds.) Home-School Connections in a Multicultural Society: Learning from and with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families Janks Literacy and Power Nieto Language, Culture, and Teaching: Critical Perspectives for a New Century, Second Edition Botelho&Rudman Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children’s Literature: Mirrors, Windows, and Doors Spears-Bunton&Powell(Eds.) Toward a Literacy of Promise: Joining the African-American Struggle Bruna&Gomez(Eds.) 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Home-School Connections in a Multicultural Society Learning from and with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families Edited by Maria Luiza Dantas Educational Consultant and Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara Patrick C. Manyak University of Wyoming First published 2010 by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009. To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk. © 2010 Taylor & Francis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Home-school connections in a multicultural society : learning from and with culturally and linguistically diverse families / edited by Maria Luiza Dantas, Patrick Manyak. p. cm.—(Language, culture, and teaching) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Home schooling—Social aspects—United States. 2. Multicultural education—United States. 3. Bilingual education—United States. I. Dantas, Maria Luiza. II. Manyak, Patrick. LC40.H6384 2010 371.19′20973—dc22 2009018390 ISBN 0-203-86843-9 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 10: 0–415–99756–9 (hbk) ISBN 10: 0–415–99757–7 (pbk) ISBN 10: 0–203–86843–9 (ebk) ISBN 13: 978–0–415–99756–0 (hbk) ISBN 13: 978–0–415–99757–7 (pbk) ISBN 13: 978–0–203–86843–0 (ebk) Dedicated to our families and the many families who continually teach us about diversity, resilience and ways of knowing and acting as change agents. Patrick also dedicates this book to the Latina/o families that embraced and fed him and enriched his life immeasurably during his years as a bilingual teacher in Pasadena, California, in particular, the Mora family, Maria Quiroz, and the Colorado family. Contents Foreword xi SONIA NIETO Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv 1 Introduction 1 PATRICK C. MANYAK AND MARIA LUIZA DANTAS PART I Home–School (Dis)connections 17 2 “Lost Boys,” Cousins and Aunties: Using Sudanese Refugee Relationships to Complicate Definitions of “Family” 19 KRISTEN H. PERRY 3 The Impact of Social Dynamics on Immigrant Children’s Language and Literacy Practices: Learning from Asian Families 41 GUOFANG LI 4 A Mother and Daughter Go to School: A Story of Strengths and Challenges 59 CATHERINE COMPTON-LILLY 5 Discontinuities and Differences among Muslim Arab-Americans: Making It at Home and School 76 LOUKIA K. SARROUB 6 Building Connections between Homes and Schools 94 MELISSA M. SCHULZ viii Contents 7 Fostering Academic Identities among Latino Immigrant Students: Contextualizing Parents’ Roles 112 LILIA D. MONZÓ Teacher Commentary SIMEON STUMME 131 PART II Curriculum Transformations: Learning with Families 135 8 Do You Hear What I Hear?: Using the Parent Story Approach to Listen to and Learn from African American Parents 137 PATRICIA A. EDWARDS AND JENNIFER D. TURNER 9 Home Visits: Learning from Students and Families 156 MARIA LUIZA DANTAS AND MICHELLE COLEMAN 10 Networks of Support: Learning from the Other Teachers in Children’s Lives 177 SUSI LONG AND DINAH VOLK 11 Issues in Funds of Knowledge Teaching and Research: Key Concepts from a Study of Appalachian Families and Schooling 201 ELLEN McINTYRE 12 How Knowledge Counts: Talking Family Knowledge and Lived Experience into Being as Resource for Academic Action 218 ELIZABETH YEAGER AND RALPH A. CÓRDOVA, JR. 13 Respecting Children’s Cultural and Linguistic Knowledge: The Pedagogical Possibilities and Challenges of Multiliteracies in Schools 237 MARIA JOSÉ BOTELHO, SARAH L. COHEN, LISA LEONI, PATRICIA CHOW, AND PADMA SASTRI Teacher Commentary CHRISTINE KANE AND KIM DOUILLARD 257 Contents ix PART III Conclusion 263 14 Home–School–Community Collaborations in Uncertain Times 265 FRANCISCO RÍOS List of Contributors 279 Index 281
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