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Kinney, Angela – Qualitative Research in Education, 2015
This study focused on household funds of knowledge or "historically accumulated bodies of knowledge and skills essential for household functioning and well-being" (Gonzalez, Andrade, Civil, & Moll, 2001). A Funds of Knowledge approach provides both a methodological and theoretical lens for educators to understand both themselves and…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Elementary School Students, Language Arts, Working Class
Sampson, William A. – 2003
Despite a myriad of school reform efforts, inner-city schools, attended for the most part by poor and working-class Black and Latino children, are failing to prepare students for our highly complex and changing world. This book suggests that reform efforts have failed because they focused upon school-based solutions and paid scant attention to the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cultural Influences, Disadvantaged, Discipline