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ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, Washington, DC. – 1994
This digest describes a research model that has shown how classroom practice can be developed, transformed, and enriched by drawing on existing "funds of knowledge" in minority students households. Funds of knowledge refers to those historically developed and accumulated strategies (e.g., skills, abilities, ideas, practices) or bodies of…
Descriptors: Cultural Traits, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)