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Title
First Years, Funds of Knowledge and Third Spaces
Author(s)
Publication Date
2015
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008
Open Access
Yes
Abstract
Universities that engage with diversity embrace the demographic of their broader communities and ensure that their first-year programs cater for diverse student populations (Rissman, Carrington & Bland, 2013). They redress "marginalization of certain forms of knowledge and ways of knowing" (Gale & Parker, 2014, p.747). Students' cultural knowledge and the resources that they bring to their formal education are of great importance to their sense of belonging, an important aspect of the first year experience (Barton & Tan, 2009; Gonzalez & Moll, 2001; Hogg, 2011; Esteban-Guitart & Moll, 2014; Kift, Nelson & Clarke, 2010; Rios-Aguilar et al., 2011). Funds Of Knowledge (FoK) Can be described as social and cultural capital (Rios-Aguilar et al., 2011) In the form of the wide and varied resources that are possessed by adult learners. They are a useful model for research into the understandings and practices that adult learners bring to the classroom (Oughton, 2010).
Publication Type
Conference Publication
Source of Publication
34th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience Session Handouts
Publisher
University of South Carolina
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States of America
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020
HERDC Category Description
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