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The Funds of Knowledge of Latina Student Mothers at a Hispanic-Serving Institution

Sat, April 29, 8:15 to 9:45am, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Floor: River Level, Room 6C

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This study seeks explores how Latina student mothers mediate their educational success by understanding how students balance their educational responsibilities with motherhood. This qualitative study utilizes funds of knowledge (Moll, Amanti, Neff, & González, 1992) as a theoretical framework to identify and document the wealth of knowledge, skills, and cultural resources Latino families contain.

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