Browsing by Subject "cultural knowledge"

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    How Students Use Their Cultural and Linguistic Knowledge to Transform Literacy Goals
    (Project Muse, 2019) Sosa, Teresa; Bhathena, Catherine D.; School of Education
    Black and Latinx youth frequently are asked to complete school tasks and activities without much focus on the knowledge and experiences they draw from to make sense of what they are being asked to do. Using culturally sustaining pedagogy as a framework, this work provides a clear example of the interactions, engagement, and learning that unfolded in a 9th grade English Language Arts classroom as broader goals of one lesson emerged through students sharing their lived experiences and concomitant understandings of the social world. This work provides a clear case for how to support the fullness of youths' identities as dynamic beings and provides evidence for how this does not detract from the goals of school activities, In fact, it enriches them and makes them meaningful.
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    Reading the World: Toward a Praxis of Inquiry, Critical Literacy, and Cultural Knowledge
    (Wiley, 2017) Kazembe, Lasana D.; School of Education
    Most people have struggled with reading in one situation or another, depending on their appreciation for the content, their prior experiences, and the texts. This department column shares ways for educators to help literacy learners unlock their potential with instruction anchored in their skills, knowledge, ways of learning, interests, and attitudes.