403: Culturally Inclusive Pedagogy for Classroom Achievement

This session explores the incorporation of students’ funds of knowledge (FoK) into classroom curricula. A qualitative and a mixed methods study examining Hybrid Discourse Spaces (e.g., integrating everyday knowledge with scientific knowledge) in Science classrooms with diverse student samples will be discussed as examples. Connections will be made to asset-based and culturally inclusive pedagogies, as the session is based on the premise that students’ diverse identities, languages, and lived experiences (referred to as FoK, following Moll et al., 1992) are valuable resources for their learning. Ties will also be made to teacher’s FoK. This session will: 1) explore how teachers recognized the diverse FoK of students, 2) examine the relationship between teachers’ FoK and students’ FoK, and 3) investigate the extent to which teachers integrated students’ FoK into their teaching methods (e.g., creating hybrid discourse spaces; Bae, et. al., 2022).