EDUC 118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Linda Flower, Shared Experience

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Funds of knowledge are defined as historically accumulated and culturally developed bodies of knowledge and skills essential for household or individual functioning and well-being (moll and. There are funds of knowledge that: o o o children bring to schools exist in great reservoirs in communities can be drawn on to build literacy and language skills. The actual and everyday experiences of students" lives are privileged over uniform, integrated and standardized cultural norms. Community literacy is the funds of knowledge that community members bring to the community and their activism and strengths. Communities, literacy, and social change discourse involve civic and community literacy. Community literacy has four key aims (cushman, 2001, p. 575-576) People in urban communities use writing to compose themselves for action. o. Linda flower argues that meaning making is an act of construction and negotiation in the face of conflict (cushman, 2001, p. 581).

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