Overview
Families are resources that are extremely powerful and important for young learners from minoritized backgrounds, yet such families are often overlooked, silenced, or ostracized. This book presents a much-needed framework for family and community engagement in the early childhood and elementary literacy classroom that embraces and foregrounds students’ unique cultural backgrounds. This book spotlights the families of minoritized learners and the crucial role that they play in building dynamic and inspiring environments for learning. To re-envision the engagement of these families in the early childhood classroom, the book provides an accessible understanding of Yosso’s theory of community cultural wealth. Covering key topics such as children’s literature and digital tools, the book features strategies for implementing culturally responsive classroom practices to create positive home–school partnerships. Each chapter highlights one type of capital in community cultural wealth—aspirational, linguistic, familial, social, navigational, and resistant—and gives teachers guidance on working with and supporting the efforts of families both inside and outside of the classroom. This book is an essential resource to inform current and future early childhood educators on how to gain deeper understandings of what families—especially from Communities of Color—already are doing for the education of their children, and how best to support them.
Full Product Details
Author: Julia López-Robertson ,
Melissa Wells
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.512kg
ISBN: 9781032375816
ISBN 10: 1032375817
Pages: 182
Publication Date: 21 July 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
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.
Reviews
"""Re-envisioning Family Engagement and Literacy in Early Childhood Classrooms “Porque asi ya conocemos” is a necessary reimagination of what it means to truly engage families of minoritized and immigrant students in the early childhood classroom... This is a unique book that adds to the repertoire of texts that foreground the need to reconfigure family and community engagement, and school relationships focusing on assets-based approaches... particularly in the area of multilingual and immigrants’ literacy education."" Elizabeth Stelle and Carmen Liliana Medina, review in Teachers College Record"
Author Information
Julia López-Robertson is Professor of Education at the University of South Carolina, USA. Melissa Summer Wells is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Mary Washington, USA.
