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Overview"Why do we honor some students’ background knowledge and ignore that of others? How can we build on the ""gifts of diversity"" in our classrooms? Classroom Diversity offers examples of teachers wrestling with these issues. It presents a new way to look at curriculum design and the learning that can result when we put students’ funds of knowledge first. Classroom Diversity takes a ""sociocultural"" approach to curriculum design, which provides minority and working-class students with the same privileges that middle-class students have always had: instruction that puts their knowledge and experiences at the heart of their learning. It presents both the theoretical framework for linking students’ lives with curriculum and specific strategies from teachers who have done so successfully. Their stories show African American, Haitian American, Latino, Native American, and rural white students of Appalachian descent engaged in contextualised learning as they read and write and do mathematics and science across the grades. All of the classrooms described share one important characteristic: they use students’ household-based funds of knowledge as resources for school-based funds of knowledge, building bridges in nontraditional ways." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ellen McIntyre , Ann Rosebery , Norma GonzalézPublisher: Heinemann USA Imprint: Heinemann Educational Books,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 18.00cm Weight: 0.213kg ISBN: 9780325003320ISBN 10: 0325003327 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 18 January 2001 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationSUSAN OHAN'AN is a longtime teacher and free-lance writer whose articles have appeared in periodicals ranging from the Atlantic and Washington Monthly to Phi Delta Kappan and Education Week. Susan is the author of more than a dozen books, including One Size Fits Few: The Folly of Educational Standards (Heinemann, 1999) and Whos In Charge? A Teacher Speaks Her Mind (Boynton/Cook, 1994). Her email address is: sohan70241@aol.com. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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