Cuentos en la Cocina: Developing Multiple Literacies in the Kitchen, One Production at a Time

• In Event: Roundtable Session 12
  In Roundtable Session: Funds of Knowledge in Latino Students' Family, School, and Community Contexts

Abstract

This paper examines a unique cooking-literacy afterschool program located in a USDA identified “food desert” neighborhood the outskirts of a Southeastern town. It illustrates the ways in which one informal community venue has supported the multiple literacies of Hispanic/Latino and African American children as well as their agency, creativity, and exposure to healthy foods. It also demonstrates how social discourse influenced the children’s language decisions, even within the comfort of their home community.

Authors

• Denise Davila, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Silvia C Nogueron-Liu, University of Colorado - Boulder