Re-envisioning Family Engagement and Literacy in Early Childhood Classrooms: "Porque asi ya conocemos"

Families from minoritized backgrounds are essential resources for young learners, but they are often overlooked, silenced, or ostracized. This book provides a framework for family and community engagement in the early childhood and elementary literacy classroom that embraces and foregrounds students' unique cultural backgrounds. It highlights the importance of families in building dynamic and inspiring learning environments and offers strategies for implementing culturally responsive classroom practices to create positive home-school partnerships.

Format: Hardback
Length: 182 pages
Publication date: 21 July 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Families are invaluable resources for young learners from marginalized backgrounds, yet they are often overlooked, silenced, or ostracized. This book offers a much-needed framework for family and community engagement in the early childhood and elementary literacy classroom that embraces and highlights students' unique cultural backgrounds. The book sheds light on the families of minoritized learners and their crucial role in creating dynamic and inspiring learning environments. To reimagine the engagement of these families in the early childhood classroom, the book provides an accessible understanding of Yossos theory of community cultural wealth. It covers key topics such as children's literature and digital tools and offers strategies for implementing culturally responsive classroom practices to foster positive home-school partnerships. Each chapter focuses on one type of capital in community cultural wealth, including aspirational, linguistic, familial, social, navigational, and resistant, and provides teachers with guidance on working with and supporting the efforts of families both inside and outside the classroom.

This book is a vital resource for current and future early childhood educators seeking to gain deeper insights into what families, particularly from Communities of Color, are already doing for their children's education and how best to support them. By embracing and leveraging the cultural wealth of families, educators can create inclusive and equitable learning environments that empower students to thrive and achieve their full potential.

Weight: 510g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032375816