Home-School Connections in a Multicultural Society: Learning From and With Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families

by Maria Luiza Dantas (Editor), Patrick C. Manyak (Editor)

Educators everywhere confront critical issues related to families, schooling, and teaching in diverse settings. Directly addressing this reality, Home-School Connections in a Multicultural Society shows pre-service and practicing teachers how to recognize and build on the rich resources for enhancing school learning that exist within culturally and linguistically diverse families. Combining engaging cases and relevant key concepts with thought-provoking pedagogical features, this valuable resource for educators at all Disrupting deficit assumptions about the experiences and knowledge that culturally and linguistically diverse children acquire in their homes and communities, this book engages readers in grappling deeply and personally with the chapters’ meanings and implications, and in envisioning their own practical ways to learn from and with families and children.

312 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2009

About the author

Maria Luiza Dantas is Educational Consultant and Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara.