Saturday, February 12, 2011

Gutierrez, Kris (Morales, Martinez) Re-mediating Literacy; Culture, Difference, and Learning for Students from Nondominant Communities. Review of Reserach in Ed v33,212-245.2009

Gutierez cites Scribner and several other authors and their studies of literacy in the context of its use.  The authors' names indicate to me that they are of "nondominant" communities (possibly Hispanic) and so refer to nondominant cultures and their litercies first hand.

It is important to learn as much as possible about an individual and the community practice of literacy.  Gutierez cites Scribner and Cole's (1973) research and explains that the methods and problems of school could not be attributed to the problems and technologies of everyday life or the home; rather, the focus should be on "rethinking the social organization of education and its effect ... searching for specific deficiencies are socially mischievous detours."

Schools need to create a "functional" learning system ... identifying varying methods to promote the study of literacy in the context of real life experience to promote organization of learning and thinking skills of the individual ... a sort of cross-cultural effort toward student literacy in nondominant communities.

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