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SEE Seminar Series: Only Life Educates: Mobilizing Cultural Resources for Teaching and Learning, Nov 3
Featured Speaker: Dr. Luis Moll, Professor of Language, Reading and Culture, University of Arizona
Only Life Educates: Mobilizing Cultural Resources for Teaching and Learning
In this presentation, I discuss how my colleagues and I have appropriated ideas in our educational research related to the Vygotsian concept of the cultural mediation of thinking. I will spotlight three projects: one on household funds of knowledge; another on transcultural literacy development in children; and one on participatory action research with adolescents. I will show how the concept of mediation, coordinated with contemporary anthropological concepts, particularly those that challenge essentialist notions of culture through an understanding of culture as practices or lived experiences, has helped shape our sociocultural approach to literacy and schooling. In particular, I will emphasize the centrality of the processes of appropriation and recontextualization of cultural resources, either by teachers or by students, in the formation educational actions.
Panelists:
- Russell Little, Principal, Palm Middle School, Lemon Grove School District
- Dr. Valerie Ooka Pang, Professor, School of Teacher Education, SDSU
- Dr. Mica Pollock, Director of CREATE, UCSD
Join us at Mother Rosalie Hill Hall School of Leadership and Education Sciences (SOLES), University of San Diego
Please RSVP at www.SeeeSeminar.com, where additional information is available.
SEEE (STEM Education, Economics, and Equity) Seminar Series is offered in conjunction with the USD Department of Learning and Teaching Supper Series.
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