Luis C Moll
Biographic Data
| ID | 641174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luis C Moll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luis C |
| FAMILY NAME | Moll |
| SIGNATURE | MOLL L C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1418 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Challenging claims of cultural deprivation as a career-long goal
This paper presents an overview of some of Michael Cole’s work, starting with his pioneering research in Liberia with the Kpelle (and later, with Sylvia Scribner, studies of literacy with the Vai, 1981), which was formative of his version of a cultural-historical psychology, his translation and interpretations of the work of L. S. Vygotsky and finally his development of the 5th Dimension after-school programs, which in various ways build on the i…
Elaborating Funds of Knowledge
This article discusses a sociocultural approach we have developed, which we refer to as funds of knowledge. The emphasis of the funds of knowledge work has been to develop both theory and methods through which educators can approach and document the funds of knowledge of families and re-present them on the bases of the knowledge, resources, and strengths they possess, thus challenging deficit orientations that are so dominant, in particular, in t…
Making Contexts
This chapter presents a study that was influenced by two theoretical approaches based on the idea that learning and teaching are complementary aspects of education and that education is accomplished as a system of interactions. First, the microethnographic approach to the study of schooling; Second, the socio-historical approach to the study of learning and development. A basic premise of microethnographic studies is that social events such as cl…
The Many Forms of Transculturality
Lived experience, funds of identity and education
The aim of this paper is to contribute to the discussion on funds of identity. First, we emphasize the extent to which history and time are constitutive dimensions of culture and experience and the affect this has on funds of identity and meaning construction. We then go on to explore some connections between lived experience and funds of identity. We prefer to use the term lived experience – rather than emotional experience, the term used by Nog…
Funds of Identity
The main purpose of this paper is to articulate a theory of human identity from a Vygotskian perspective. In doing so, we use the term “funds of identity” inspired by the “funds of knowledge” approach. We use the term funds of identity to refer to the historically accumulated, culturally developed, and socially distributed resources that are essential for a person’s self-definition, self-expression, and self-understanding. Funds of knowledge—bodi…
International Handbook of Research on Children's Literacy, Learning, and Culture
The International Handbook of Research in Children's Literacy, Learning and Culture presents an authoritative distillation of current global knowledge related to the field of primary years literacy studies. Features chapters that conceptualize, interpret, and synthesize relevant research Critically reviews past and current research in order to influence future directions in the field of literacy Offers literacy scholars an international perspecti…
International Handbook of Research on Children's Literacy, Learning and Culture
Funds of Knowledge in Changing Communities
In the Arid Zone
This article presents a variety of issues related to the effects of restrictive language and educational policies that ultimately limits important resources for English language learners (i.e., services, funding, time, and information). The authors spotlight the state of Arizona as an unfortunate case of language control through policies, which has the promise of being replicated in other areas of the United States. As these forms of control make…
Biliteracy Among Children and Youths
The dual purposes of this review are, first, to synthesize the extant research on biliteracy, focusing particularly on children and youths and, second, to clarify key terms and phenomena in this developing field. The review is organized into three areas of research: (1) individual biliteracy development, (2) biliteracy in family and community contexts, and (3) biliteracy in the classroom context. Contributions from these various areas offer multi…
Funds of knowledge for the poor and forms of capital for the rich? A capital approach to examining funds of knowledge
Educational researchers have assumed that the concept of funds of knowledge is related to specific forms of capital. However, scholars have not examined if and how these theoretical frameworks can complement each other when attempting to understand educational opportunity for under-represented students. In this article, we argue that a funds of knowledge approach should also be studied from a capital perspective. We claim that bridging funds of k…
Special Issue on Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
As the site of confluence of several disciplines interested in language acquisition and use, the field of applied linguistics is the overarching domain of research dedicated to the study of second
Mobilizing Culture, Language, and Educational Practices
In commemorating the landmark Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision, this lecture also honors the Mendez v. Westminster case of 1946, a successful challenge to the segregated schooling of Mexican and Mexican American students in California. The author summarizes the Mendez case, its relation to Brown, and its sociocultural aspects, including educational conditions at the time, the collective and intercultural agency of the participants, and…
Igualdad, calidad y compromiso en educación
Luis C. Moll, puertorriqueño de nacimiento, es uno de los referentes más destacados de la investigación educativa en el ámbito hispano de los Estados Unidos. Sus trabajos sobre el desarrollo lingüístico y la alfabetización bilingüe de los niños inmigrantes de habla hispana en ese país son conocidos y reconocidos como parte de la vanguardia en la investigación sobre la forma en que la cultura y la educación se conjugan en el desarrollo humano. Asi…
Equity, quality and commitment in education
Luis C. Moll, Puerto Rican by birth, is one of the most prominent researchers in Latino education in the United States. His avant-garde works on Hispanic children's linguistic development and bilingual literacy are well known and renowned for their implications in the research on the impact of culture and education on human development. He is also one of the most notable advocates of Vygotskian theory in the Hispanic world, and his labor in this …
Funds of Knowledge
Sociocultural Competence in Teacher Education
For the past few years we have been developing a longitudinal study of biliteracy development in children by following, all within the same dual-language school, a case study cohort of 20 students throughout their elementary school years. This cohort sample represents considerable diversity in terms of ethnicity, social class, and language proficiencies upon starting school, with just a few children fluent in both Spanish and English as early as …
Rethinking Resistance
Cruzando El Puente
What can be learned fromthe Puente experience about identifying and incor porating local funds of knowledge of Latino communities into precollege preparation? This article focuses on how Puente teachers and students can enhance their practice and mutual learning through ethnographic fieldwork in the students’home community. Through investigating the many local funds of knowledge that can be utilized to validate students’ identities as knowledgeab…
Sounding American”
The authors highlight the omission of English language learners and their unique needs from reports such as that of the U.S. National Reading Panel. Situating their conversation in a sociocultural and socioeconomic context, they discuss how schools can and should help all children
Bridging Funds of Distributed Knowledge
The work in this article has a basis in a long-term research paradigm investigating the "funds of knowledge" of diverse populations. This conceptualization adopts an anthropological perspective for viewing the households of low-income and minority students as repositories of diverse knowledge bases. In the BRIDGE project, the focus has been on understanding the mathematical potential of households, as well as "mathematizing" household practices. …
Latina and Latino Researchers Interact on Issues Related to Literacy Learning
In this conversation, a group of educators discuss professional development and identity, representation in academe, assessment of linguistically diverse students, current movements in literacy instruction, teaching style and process of instruction, content of instruction, and teacher training from their perspectives as Latino and Latina researchers
The Creation of Mediating Settings
Funds of Knowledge for Teaching in Latino Households
Conceptualizing the households of working-class Latino students as being rich in funds of knowledge has had transformative consequences for teachers, parents, students, and researchers. Teachers' qualitative, ethnographic study of their own students' households has unfolded as a viable method for bridging the gap between school and community. The focus of the home visit is to gather details about the accumulated knowledge base that each household…
Funds of knowledge for teaching
1992). Funds of knowledge for teaching: Using a qualitative approach to connect homes and classrooms. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 31, Qualitative Issues in Educational Research, pp. 132-141
Bilingual Classroom Studies and Community Analysis
The questions and issues that underlie bilingual education are constrained by deficit views about the abilities and experiences of language-minority students. In general, most research has emphasized how well students acquire English, assimilate into mainstream culture, and perform on tests of basic skills. Employing a sociocultural perspective that acknowledges the many resources that are available to children outside of the school, the author d…
Funds of Knowledge for Teaching in Latino Households
Conceptualizing the households of working-class Latino students as being rich in funds of knowledge has had transformative consequences for teachers, parents, students, and researchers. Teachers' qualitative, ethnographic study of their own students' households has unfolded as a viable method for bridging the gap between school and community. The focus of the home visit is to gather details about the accumulated knowledge base that each household…
Change as the Goal of Educational Research
This article describes two case studies conducted with working-class Hispanic students and their teachers. For each study we discuss how existing instructional conditions constrain what both students and teachers are able to accomplish, and in each case we apply local knowledge to alter instructional procedures in ways that are more productive. We argue that there is nothing about the students' language or culture that should handicap their schoo…
Writing as communication
1986). Writing as communication: Creating strategic learning environments for students. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 25, Building Literacy, pp. 102-108
Mobilizing Culture, Language, and Educational Practices
In commemorating the landmark Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision, this lecture also honors the Mendez v. Westminster case of 1946, a successful challenge to the segregated schooling of Mexican and Mexican American students in California. The author summarizes the Mendez case, its relation to Brown, and its sociocultural aspects, including educational conditions at the time, the collective and intercultural agency of the participants, and…
Sociocultural Competence in Teacher Education
For the past few years we have been developing a longitudinal study of biliteracy development in children by following, all within the same dual-language school, a case study cohort of 20 students throughout their elementary school years. This cohort sample represents considerable diversity in terms of ethnicity, social class, and language proficiencies upon starting school, with just a few children fluent in both Spanish and English as early as …
Biliteracy Among Children and Youths
The dual purposes of this review are, first, to synthesize the extant research on biliteracy, focusing particularly on children and youths and, second, to clarify key terms and phenomena in this developing field. The review is organized into three areas of research: (1) individual biliteracy development, (2) biliteracy in family and community contexts, and (3) biliteracy in the classroom context. Contributions from these various areas offer multi…
Sounding American”
The authors highlight the omission of English language learners and their unique needs from reports such as that of the U.S. National Reading Panel. Situating their conversation in a sociocultural and socioeconomic context, they discuss how schools can and should help all children
In the Arid Zone
This article presents a variety of issues related to the effects of restrictive language and educational policies that ultimately limits important resources for English language learners (i.e., services, funding, time, and information). The authors spotlight the state of Arizona as an unfortunate case of language control through policies, which has the promise of being replicated in other areas of the United States. As these forms of control make…
Vygotsky and Education
Moll Part I. Historical and Theoretical Issues: 1. Vygotsky: the man and his cause Guillermo Blanck 2. The historical context of Vygotsky's work: a sociohistorical approach Alberto Rosa and Ignacio Montero 3. Congitive development and formal schooling: the evidence from cross-cultural research Michael Cole 4. The voice of rationality in a sociocultural approach to mind James V. Wertsch 5. The social origins of self-regulation Rafael M. Diaz, Cynt…
Rethinking Resistance
Latina and Latino Researchers Interact on Issues Related to Literacy Learning
In this conversation, a group of educators discuss professional development and identity, representation in academe, assessment of linguistically diverse students, current movements in literacy instruction, teaching style and process of instruction, content of instruction, and teacher training from their perspectives as Latino and Latina researchers
The Many Forms of Transculturality
Writing as communication
1986). Writing as communication: Creating strategic learning environments for students. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 25, Building Literacy, pp. 102-108
Change as the Goal of Educational Research
This article describes two case studies conducted with working-class Hispanic students and their teachers. For each study we discuss how existing instructional conditions constrain what both students and teachers are able to accomplish, and in each case we apply local knowledge to alter instructional procedures in ways that are more productive. We argue that there is nothing about the students' language or culture that should handicap their schoo…
Vygotsky and Education
The seminal work of Russian theorist Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934) has exerted a deep influence on psychology over the past 30 years. Vygotsky was an educator turned psychologist, and his writings clearly reflected his pedagogical concerns. For Vygotsky, schools and other informal educational situations represent the best cultural laboratories to study thinking. He emphasized the social organization of instruction, writing about the 'unique form of co…
Creating zones of possibilities
Of great value, in both scientific and practical respects, would be the pedagogicalpsychological investigation of the reciprocal relation between learning activity and the productive labor that pupils undertake together with adults. This problem has received precious little attention by developmental and pedagogical psychology in the Soviet Union, although the development of learning activity is closely tied precisely to productive activity. V. V…
Vygotsky and Education
Moll Part I. Historical and Theoretical Issues: 1. Vygotsky: the man and his cause Guillermo Blanck 2. The historical context of Vygotsky's work: a sociohistorical approach Alberto Rosa and Ignacio Montero 3. Congitive development and formal schooling: the evidence from cross-cultural research Michael Cole 4. The voice of rationality in a sociocultural approach to mind James V. Wertsch 5. The social origins of self-regulation Rafael M. Diaz, Cynt…
The Vygotskian Perspective on Education
Bilingual Classroom Studies and Community Analysis
The questions and issues that underlie bilingual education are constrained by deficit views about the abilities and experiences of language-minority students. In general, most research has emphasized how well students acquire English, assimilate into mainstream culture, and perform on tests of basic skills. Employing a sociocultural perspective that acknowledges the many resources that are available to children outside of the school, the author d…
Funds of knowledge for teaching
1992). Funds of knowledge for teaching: Using a qualitative approach to connect homes and classrooms. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 31, Qualitative Issues in Educational Research, pp. 132-141
Pushing Boundaries
Children in Mexicano communities learn to use language in a variety of ways. At times they use both Spanish and English in the same conversation or help friends and family members enter mainstream society by translating English to Spanish for them. Pushing Boundaries describes Eastside, a Mexicano community in northern California, analysing language learning and language socialization in the context of real, problematic, important activities in p…
Lessons from Research with Language-Minority Children
Lupita, a third-grade student, pulled up a chair to a table and sat next to some classmates. She was doing research on the Sioux as part of a broader classroom project studying Native Americans, and had spent part of the morning selecting books from the school library with information about that cultural group. The students themselves had selected Native Americans as the general topic of study and were doing independent and collaborative research…
Funds of Knowledge for Teaching in Latino Households
Conceptualizing the households of working-class Latino students as being rich in funds of knowledge has had transformative consequences for teachers, parents, students, and researchers. Teachers' qualitative, ethnographic study of their own students' households has unfolded as a viable method for bridging the gap between school and community. The focus of the home visit is to gather details about the accumulated knowledge base that each household…
The Creation of Mediating Settings
Latina and Latino Researchers Interact on Issues Related to Literacy Learning
In this conversation, a group of educators discuss professional development and identity, representation in academe, assessment of linguistically diverse students, current movements in literacy instruction, teaching style and process of instruction, content of instruction, and teacher training from their perspectives as Latino and Latina researchers
Bridging Funds of Distributed Knowledge
The work in this article has a basis in a long-term research paradigm investigating the "funds of knowledge" of diverse populations. This conceptualization adopts an anthropological perspective for viewing the households of low-income and minority students as repositories of diverse knowledge bases. In the BRIDGE project, the focus has been on understanding the mathematical potential of households, as well as "mathematizing" household practices. …
Cruzando El Puente
What can be learned fromthe Puente experience about identifying and incor porating local funds of knowledge of Latino communities into precollege preparation? This article focuses on how Puente teachers and students can enhance their practice and mutual learning through ethnographic fieldwork in the students’home community. Through investigating the many local funds of knowledge that can be utilized to validate students’ identities as knowledgeab…
Sounding American”
The authors highlight the omission of English language learners and their unique needs from reports such as that of the U.S. National Reading Panel. Situating their conversation in a sociocultural and socioeconomic context, they discuss how schools can and should help all children
Rethinking Resistance
Sociocultural Competence in Teacher Education
For the past few years we have been developing a longitudinal study of biliteracy development in children by following, all within the same dual-language school, a case study cohort of 20 students throughout their elementary school years. This cohort sample represents considerable diversity in terms of ethnicity, social class, and language proficiencies upon starting school, with just a few children fluent in both Spanish and English as early as …
Funds of Knowledge
Igualdad, calidad y compromiso en educación
Luis C. Moll, puertorriqueño de nacimiento, es uno de los referentes más destacados de la investigación educativa en el ámbito hispano de los Estados Unidos. Sus trabajos sobre el desarrollo lingüístico y la alfabetización bilingüe de los niños inmigrantes de habla hispana en ese país son conocidos y reconocidos como parte de la vanguardia en la investigación sobre la forma en que la cultura y la educación se conjugan en el desarrollo humano. Asi…
Equity, quality and commitment in education
Luis C. Moll, Puerto Rican by birth, is one of the most prominent researchers in Latino education in the United States. His avant-garde works on Hispanic children's linguistic development and bilingual literacy are well known and renowned for their implications in the research on the impact of culture and education on human development. He is also one of the most notable advocates of Vygotskian theory in the Hispanic world, and his labor in this …
Special Issue on Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
As the site of confluence of several disciplines interested in language acquisition and use, the field of applied linguistics is the overarching domain of research dedicated to the study of second
Mobilizing Culture, Language, and Educational Practices
In commemorating the landmark Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision, this lecture also honors the Mendez v. Westminster case of 1946, a successful challenge to the segregated schooling of Mexican and Mexican American students in California. The author summarizes the Mendez case, its relation to Brown, and its sociocultural aspects, including educational conditions at the time, the collective and intercultural agency of the participants, and…
Funds of knowledge for the poor and forms of capital for the rich? A capital approach to examining funds of knowledge
Educational researchers have assumed that the concept of funds of knowledge is related to specific forms of capital. However, scholars have not examined if and how these theoretical frameworks can complement each other when attempting to understand educational opportunity for under-represented students. In this article, we argue that a funds of knowledge approach should also be studied from a capital perspective. We claim that bridging funds of k…
In the Arid Zone
This article presents a variety of issues related to the effects of restrictive language and educational policies that ultimately limits important resources for English language learners (i.e., services, funding, time, and information). The authors spotlight the state of Arizona as an unfortunate case of language control through policies, which has the promise of being replicated in other areas of the United States. As these forms of control make…
Sociology (28 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Pedagogy (20 works) · Computer Science (18 works) · Mathematics education (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (12 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Literacy (7 works) · Social science (7 works)