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Funds of Knowledge: Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms

The concept of "funds of knowledge" is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge. Download Funds of Knowledge: Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. The claim in this book is that first-hand research experiences with families allow one to document this competence and knowledge, and that such engagement provides many possibilities for positive pedagogical actions.

Drawing from both Vygotskian and neo-sociocultural perspectives in designing a methodology that views the everyday practices of language and action as constructing knowledge, the funds of knowledge approach facilitates a systematic and powerful way to represent communities in terms of the resources they possess and how to harness them for classroom teaching. Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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