Funds of Knowledge

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”


---- Frances Hodgson Burnett, "The Secret Garden"

Problem:
Funds of knowledge are a valuable resource that teachers do not utilize.

Positionality

Research Questions

• Where are there missed opportunities for using funds of knowledge?
• How do teachers utilize students' funds of knowledge during planning?
• How do teachers access students' funds of knowledge?

Research Methods

• observations
• field notes
• brief conversation

Initial Findings

• missed opportunities
• access of funds
• using funds to plan

Limitations

• Need more time to observe
• Student backgrounds?
• More thorough interview

Implications/Conslusions

• 3 questions
• dig deeper
• be a reasearcher
• accept all funds

References

• Gonzalez, N., Moll, L.C., & Amanti, C. (2005). Funds of knowledge: Theorizing practices in households, communities, and classrooms. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Hogg, L. (2011). Funds of knowledge: An investigation of coherence within the literature. Teaching and Teacher Education, 27(3), 666-677. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/science/article/pii....
• Moje, E.B., McIntosh Ciechanowski, K., Kramer, K., & Ellis, L. (2004). Working toward third space in content area literacy: An examination of everyday funds of knowledge and discourse. Reading Research Quarterly, 39(1), 38-70. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/docview/212137068?pq-....
• Moll, Luis C., Amanti, C., Neff, D., & Gonzalez, N. (1992). Funds of knowledge for teaching: Using a qualitative approach to connect homes and classrooms. Theory into Practice, 31(2), 132-141. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/stable/1476399?pq-origsite=....
• Riojas-Cortez, M. (2001). Preschoolers’ funds of knowledge displayed through sociodramatic play episodes in a bilingual classroom. Early Childhood Education Journal, 29(1), 35-40. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/docview/751773365?pq-....
• Rios-Aguilar, C., Marquez Kiyama, J., Gravitt, M., & Moll, L.C. (2011). Funds of knowledge for the poor and forms of capital for the rich? A capital approach to examining funds of knowledge. Theory and Research in Education, 9(2), 163-184. Retrieved from http://tre.sagepub.com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/content/9/2/163.