Journal ArticleDOI
Dark funds of knowledge, deep funds of pedagogy: exploring boundaries between lifeworlds and schools
TLDR
In this paper, the authors outline how curriculum designed around funds of knowledge with use-value in learners' lifeworlds challenges the exchange-value power by which competitive academic curriculum selectively privileges cultural capital embodied in elite social-structural positions.Abstract:
Among social justice efforts to make curriculum more engaging and achieving for ‘less advantaged’ learners, the Funds of Knowledge (FoK) approach, as developed by Moll, Gonzalez and associates (Gonzalez, Moll, & Amanti, 2005; Moll, Amanti, Neff, & Gonzalez, 1992), offers sound conception and a track-record. The Redesigning Pedagogies in the North project (RPiN) significantly embraced this approach (with some methodological differences). In this paper I first outline how curriculum designed around funds of knowledge with use-value in learners’ lifeworlds challenges the exchange-value power by which competitive academic curriculum selectively privileges cultural capital embodied in elite social-structural positions. I then draw on both RPiN data and FoK literature to examine problematic tendencies to build curriculum around (1) light (i.e. positive) but not dark knowledge from learners’ lifeworlds; and (2) knowledge contents but not ways of knowing and transacting knowledge (funds of pedagogy). In exploring...read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Funds of Knowledge for the Poor and Forms of Capital for the Rich? A Capital Approach to Examining Funds of Knowledge.
TL;DR: The authors examined if and how these theoretical frameworks can be used in the context of fund-of-knowledge (FoK) systems and found that the concept of funds of knowledge is related to specific forms of capital.
Journal ArticleDOI
Funds of Knowledge: An investigation of coherence within the literature
TL;DR: An overview and analysis of the field of fund-of-knowledge research can be found in this paper, where the authors discuss the current scope of settings for funds of knowledge research and what writers mean when they talk about them.
Journal ArticleDOI
Educating for Futures in Marginalized Regions: A sociological framework for rethinking and researching aspirations
TL;DR: In this article, a doxic logic and a habituated logic are proposed to address difficult social, cultural, economic and political conditions for aspiring, based in structural changes associated with globalization.
Journal ArticleDOI
The capacity to aspire to higher education: ‘It's like making them do a play without a script’
TL;DR: The authors reframes aspiration as a cultural category rather than an individual motivational trait, and draws on Appadurai's notion of the "capacity to aspire" to encourage students to aspire to higher education.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Outline of a Theory of Practice
TL;DR: Bourdieu as mentioned in this paper develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood.
Book
Reproduction in education, society and culture
TL;DR: The Second Edition of Bourdieu's Theory of Symbolic VIOLENCE as discussed by the authors is a collection of essays about the foundation of a theory of symbolic violence and its application in higher education.
Journal ArticleDOI
Funds of knowledge for teaching: Using a qualitative approach to connect homes and classrooms
TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative approach to connect homes and classrooms is presented. But the approach is limited to the use of knowledge for teaching, and it is not suitable for the general public.