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18.027 - Everyday Learning: Leveraging Nondominant Youth Language and Culture in Schools

Thu, April 27, 4:05 to 5:35pm, Grand Hyatt San Antonio, Floor: Second Floor, Lone Star Ballroom Salon C

Session Type: Symposium

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Building on the Cultural Modeling (Lee 1995) and Cultural Funds of Knowledge (Moll & González 1997), this session suggests specific ways in which the quotidian cultural practices of youth from non-dominant communities can be productively built upon in schools. The papers in this session detail how the everyday skills that youth from non-dominant backgrounds already engage in (i.e. Bible-reading, story-telling, everyday experiences of growing up undocumented, and flexible communicative repertoires) can be used as strengths and serve as points of leverage for specific academic skills in language arts, social studies, and civics education. In addition to expanding the scope of these paradigms, this session has important implications for both actual classroom practice and for the education of pre-service teachers.

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