Whose culture has capital?: Community Cultural Wealth along the Chicana/o Educational Pipeline
About Me
- Academic Activists
- We are a Research-Extensive, Hispanic and Minority Serving, Land Grant institution. This extraordinary trifecta gives us great responsibility as public intellectuals. Our multiple missions are to serve the communities in our state, however we have found that conversations about diversity are often one-dimensional and lacking historical and social context. We proposed this lecture series in order to invite scholars and thinkers who are invested in social justice work around multiple issues of diversity and are accessible in their approach to knowledge sharing.
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Dr. Yosso's comment on community cultural was profound. If we looked at communities as having cultural wealth /funds of knowledge then we would not speak of students as lacking x and y. The conversation about children would change to seeing them as assets an integral part of our community.
In Finland children in schools are viewed as having funds of knowledge, assets (rated the best schools in the world). They have less school, more freedom and no testing. Testing is based on deficit thinking because we are looking at what youth lack not what they offer our community.
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