In the Tucson household ethnography, exchanges within households' social networks were often reciprocal and built mutual trust through shared practical activities.¶
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q1 i? Researchers and teacher-researchers found household relationships "often reciprocal", with each exchange with kin, friends, neighbors, or teachers developing or reinforcing mutual trust. → Funds of Knowledge: Learning from Language Minority Households. ERIC Digest 1994
q1 i? The trust was established as participants shared practical activities such as home and auto repair, animal husbandry and music, which the digest describes as contexts in which learning can occur. → Funds of Knowledge: Learning from Language Minority Households. ERIC Digest 1994 (2)
Evidence¶
Funds of Knowledge: Learning from Language Minority Households. ERIC Digest 1994¶
Funds of Knowledge: Learning from Language Minority Households. ERIC Digest. (1994). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED367146
q1 · i? · qualitative · r2
From the project's community component, an ethnographic study of households in a predominantly Mexican working-class community of Tucson: researchers found relationships "often reciprocal" with each exchange building "mutual trust". Qualitative finding; no counts printed.
"They found that these relationships are often reciprocal in that each exchange with kinsmen, friends, neighbors, or teachers results in the development or reinforcement of mutual trust."
Funds of Knowledge: Learning from Language Minority Households. ERIC Digest 1994 (2)¶
Funds of Knowledge: Learning from Language Minority Households. ERIC Digest. (1994). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED367146
q1 · i? · qualitative · r2
The digest, citing Moll and Greenberg (1990), reports this trust grew as participants "shared in practical activities" such as home and auto repair, animal husbandry and music. Descriptive ethnographic finding.
"This trust was established and reinforced as the participants shared in practical activities (e.g., home and auto repair, animal husbandry, music) that constantly provide contexts in which learning can occur"
Discussion¶
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In the Tucson household ethnography, exchanges within households' social networks were often reciprocal and built mutual trust through shared practical activities. |
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In the Tucson household ethnography, exchanges within households' social networks were often reciprocal and built mutual trust through shared practical activities. |
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1994 |
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1997 |
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