Working toward third space in content area literacy: An examination of everyday funds of knowledge and Discourse
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ABSTRACTS: In this article we analyze the intersections and disjunctures between everyday (home, community, peer group) and school funds of knowledge and Discourse (Gee, 1996) that frame the school‐based, content area literacy practices of middle school‐aged youth in a predominantly Latino/a, urban community of Detroit, Michigan, in the United States. Using data collected across five years of an on‐going community ethnography, we present findings on the strength of various funds that shape the texts available to a sample of 30 young people in the community and school we studied. We then present the patterns that we analyzed across each of the different documented funds. We use our findings on the funds that youth have available to them outside of school to suggest possibilities for working toward third space (Bhabha, 1994; Gutiérrez, Baquedano‐López, Alvarez, & Chiu, 1999; Soja, 1996) around literacy and content learning in the seventh‐ and eighth‐grade, public school science classrooms of these youth, and we draw implications for literacy teaching and research in other content areas. EN ESTE artículo analizamos las intersecciones y fracturas entre las fuentes cotidianas (hogar, comunidad, grupo de pares) y escolares de conocimientos y tipos discursivos (Gee, 1996). Estas constituyen el marco de las prácticas escolares de alfabetización en las áreas de contenido para jóvenes de escuela media en una comunidad urbana predominantemente latina de Detroit, Michigan, USA. Utilizando datos recogidos durante cinco años en un estudio etnográfico en curso, presentamos hallazgos acerca de la fuerza de varias fuentes que conforman los textos de los que disponen 30 jóvenes de la comunidad y la escuela estudiadas. Usamos los hallazgos sobre los recursos a los que los jóvenes tienen acceso fuera de la escuela para sugerir posibilidades de trabajo sobre el tercer espacio (Bhabha, 1994; Gutiérrez, Baquedano‐López, Alvarez, & Chiu, 1999; Soja, 1996) en alfabetización y aprendizaje de contenidos para aulas de ciencia de séptimo y octavo grado en escuelas públicas. Asimismo formulamos implicancias para la enseñanza y la investigación en otras áreas de contenido. IN DIESEM Artikel analysieren wir Verbindungen und Trennungen zwischen dem Alltag (dem Zuhause, in der Gemeinschaft, bei Gleichaltrigen untereinander) und gegenüber schulischen Wissensgrundlagen und Diskurs (Gee, 1996), welche die schulfächer‐basierenden Schreib‐ und Lesepraktiken von jugendlichen Mitschülern in einer überwiegend latein‐amerikanischen Stadtgemeinde in Detroit, Michigan, in den Vereinigten Staaten einrahmen. Unter Benutzung von über fünf Jahren gesammelter Daten einer fortlaufenden ethnischen Gemeinschaftserhebung präsentieren wir Ermittlungen aufgrund der Überzeugungskraft verschiedener Grundlagen, welche die vorhandenen Texte gestalten, die wir anhand einer Auswahl von 30 Jugendlichen in der Gemeinde und Schule studierten. Danach präsentieren wir Musterbeispiele, die wir quer durch die unterschiedlich dokumentierten Grundlagen weiter analysierten. Wir wandten unsere Erkenntnisse auf jene Grundlagen an, die den Jugendlichen außerhalb der Schule zur Verfügung stehen, um Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten des Einwirkens zum dritten Raum (Bhabha, 1994; Gutiérrez, Baquedano‐López, Alvarez, & Chiu, 1999; Soja, 1996) im Schreib‐ und Leseumfeld und fächerbezogenen Lernen dieser jugendlichen Schüler aus den siebten und achten wissenschaftlichen Fachklassen (Science) in öffentlichen Schulen aufzuzeigen, und wir ziehen daraus Implikationen zum Unterrichten im Schreiben und Lesen und der Erforschung in anderen Fachunterrichtsbereichen.
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Other researchers have broadened the definition of funds of knowledge to include students' interests more broadly and ways of knowing from peer groups, communities, and popular culture.
“Other researchers have broadened the definition to include students' interests more broadly (Hedges et al., 2011) and the ways of knowing that they develop from peer groups, communities, and popular culture (Moje et al., 2004).”
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- Authors
- MOJE, E. B., CIECHANOWSKI, K. M., KRAMER, K., ELLIS, L., CARRILLO, R., & COLLAZO, T.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Corresponding author
- MOJE, ELIZABETH BIRR
- ORCID
- MOJE, ELIZABETH BIRR
- Venue
- Reading Research Quarterly
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2004-01-03
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 38-70
- ISSN
- 0034-0553 (ISSN-L)
- 1936-2722
- OpenAlex
- W2023394056
- Cited by
- 1,320
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2026: 32 · 2025: 38 · 2024: 50 · 2023: 69 · 2022: 80 · 2021: 71 · 2020: 72 · 2019: 87 · 2018: 69 · 2017: 97 · 2016: 97 · 2015: 74 · 2014: 71 · 2013: 87 · 2012: 72
- FWCI
- 376.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Reading Research Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- Deep Blue (University of Michigan) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (0075907)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Linguistics and Education Research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Literacy, Media, and Education
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies
- Keywords
- funds of knowledge, discourse, third space, content area literacy, scientific literacy, junior high school students, Latino youth, urban education, Detroit, literacy education, culturally responsive teaching, Bhabha
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