34.035 - Funds of Knowledge, Community Cultural Wealth, and Forms of Capital: Strengths, Tensions, and Ethical Considerations

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Over the past decade, three frameworks–funds of knowledge; community cultural wealth; and Bourdieu’s analysis of forms of capital–have been brought into conversation with one another through research and praxis that seeks to redress educational inequities. While the three economic metaphors–funds, wealth, capital–converge in many ways, they also, when brought together, surface divergences and tensions that foreground questions of ethical importance. The broader educational community lacks an integrated diagnosis of the different strengths, gaps and ethical tensions that these frameworks bring to the study of equity and power across K-20 educational settings. This symposium seeks to provide conceptual, methodological, and philosophical clarity for educational scholar-activists interested in the riches that these frameworks offer distinctively and together.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 2: Studies of diversity and variation with social contexts of education

Chairs

• Cecilia Rios Aguilar, University of California - Los Angeles

• Adrian H. Huerta, University of Southern California

• Rebecca Colina Neri, University of California - Los Angeles

Papers

• Vygotsky's Legacy and the Concept of Funds of Knowledge - Luis C. Moll, The University of Arizona

• The Meaning and Relevance of Community Cultural Wealth - Tara J. Yosso, University of Michigan

• Exploring Positionality and Agency in the Application of Funds of Knowledge and Community Cultural Wealth - Gloria M. Rodriguez, University of California - Davis

• Bourdieu and the Forms of Capital - Patricia M. McDonough, University of California - Los Angeles

• Antiessentialism in the Lives of Young Men of Color - Tyrone C. Howard, University of California - Los Angeles

• Toward an Expansive Methodology for Learning With Nondominant Communities - Kris Gutierrez, University of California - Berkeley

Discussant

• Lew Zipin, Victoria University - Melbourne