Re-envisioning Family Engagement and Literacy in Early Childhood Classrooms

"Porque as ya conocemos"

By: Julia LÃ³pez-Robertson, Melissa Wells

Write A Review

Paperback | 21 July 2023 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback
190 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
22.86 x 15.24 x 1.02

Paperback

RRP $81.99

$76.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $19.19 with

Ships in 5 to 6 business days

Families are resources that are extremely powerful and important for young learners from minoritized backgrounds, yet such families are often overlooked, silenced, or ostracized. This book presents a much-needed framework for family and community engagement in the early childhood and elementary literacy classroom that embraces and foregrounds students' unique cultural backgrounds. This book spotlights the families of minoritized learners and the crucial role that they play in building dynamic and inspiring environments for learning. To re-envision the engagement of these families in the early childhood classroom, the book provides an accessible understanding of Yosso's theory of community cultural wealth. Covering key topics such as children's literature and digital tools, the book features strategies for implementing culturally responsive classroom practices to create positive home-school partnerships. Each chapter highlights one type of capital in community cultural wealth—aspirational, linguistic, familial, social, navigational, and resistant—and gives teachers guidance on working with and supporting the efforts of families both inside and outside of the classroom.

This book is an essential resource to inform current and future early childhood educators on how to gain deeper understandings of what families—especially from Communities of Color—already are doing for the education of their children, and how best to support them.

Industry Reviews

"Re-envisioning Family Engagement and Literacy in Early Childhood Classrooms "Porque asi ya conocemos" is a necessary reimagination of what it means to truly engage families of minoritized and immigrant students in the early childhood classroom... This is a unique book that adds to the repertoire of texts that foreground the need to reconfigure family and community engagement, and school relationships focusing on assets-based approaches... particularly in the area of multilingual and immigrants' literacy education."

Elizabeth Stelle and Carmen Liliana Medina, review in Teachers College Record

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

Orders over $79.00 qualify for free shipping.

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.