Description:
Refining and building on the concept of funds of knowledge in a sophisticated and multidisciplinary way, this book uses it to examine issues related to students' transition to college, college persistence and success, and pedagogies in higher education.
Review Quotes:
"To my knowledge this is the first book that addresses exclusively higher education in a variety of social and cultural contexts.... And there is more. The book, edited ably by Ríos-Aguilar and Kiyama, also represents a challenge to the utility of the original funds of knowledge approach...and the need to adapt or supplement its core ideas and methods to a variety of circumstances of study. Congratulations to the editors and authors on the path-breaking volume they have prepared. It is bold work they have undertaken with the goal of helping others access resources in a variety of circumstances and succeed in their advanced studies."
From the Foreword by Luis Moll, University of Arizona, USA