Children’s Funds of Knowledge in a Rural Northern Canadian Community: A Telling Case

In this article, we describe how the funds of knowledge in a community in rural Northern Canada were actualized or leveraged in an early childhood classroom. We draw on a video recording of a First Nations elder demonstrating to the children (and early childhood educators) how to skin a marten, a hi...

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Main Authors: Jim Anderson, Laura Horton, Maureen Kendrick, Marianne McTavish
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada 2017-07-01
Series:Language and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journal
Online Access:https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/langandlit/index.php/langandlit/article/view/29340