Contents
Foreword - Sonia Nieto
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction - Patrick C. Manyak and Maria Luiza Dantas
Part I: Home School (Dis)connections
2. "Lost Boys", Cousins and Aunties: Using Sudanese Refugee Relationships to Complicate Definitions of "Family" - Kristen H. Perry
3. The Impact of Social Dynamics on Immigrant Children's Language and Literacy Practices: Learning from Asian Families - Guofang Li
4. A Mother and Daughter Go to School: A Story of Strengths and Challenges - Catherine Compton-Lilly
5. Discontinuities and Differences among Muslim Arab-Americans: Making It at Home and School - Loukia K. Saroub
6. Building Connections between Homes and Schools - Melissa M. Schulz
7. Fostering Academic Identities among Latino Immigrant Students: Contextualizing Parents' Roles - Lilia D. Monzó
Teacher Commentary - Simeon Stumme
Part II: Curriculum Transformations: Learning with Families
8. Do You Hear What I Hear?: Using the Parent Story Approach to Listen to and Learn from African American Parents - Patricia A. Edwards and Jennifer D. Turner
9. Home Visits: Learning from Students and Families - Maria Luiza Dantas and Michelle Coleman
10. Networks of Support: Learning from the Other Teachers in Children's Lives - Susi Long and Dinah Volk
11. Issues in Funds of Knowledge Teaching and Research: Key Concepts from a Study of Appalachian Families and Schooling - Ellen McIntyre
12. How Knowledge Counts: Talking Family Knowledge and Lived Experience into Being as Resource for Academic Action - Elizabeth Yeager and Ralph A. Córdova, Jr.
13. Respecting Children's Cultural and Linguistic Knowledge: The Pedagogical Possibilities and Challenges of Multiliteracies in Schools - Maria José Botelho, Sarah L. Cohen, Lisa Leoni, Patricia Chow, and Padma Sastri
Teacher Commentary - Christine Kane and Kim Douillard
Part III: Conclusion
14. Home-School-Community Collaborations in Uncertain Times - Francisco Rios
List of Contributors
Index