8.1 | Prepare | Resources

8.1 | Readings and Video


Our resources this week focus on the relationship between culture, learning, and language.

Book icon Nieto, S. (2010) | The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities (23 pages)

  • Nieto, S. (2010). The light in their eyes: Creating multicultural learning communities (10th Anniversary Edition). New York: Teachers College Press.
    • Read: Chapter 3, Culture & Learning. (PDF). (Pages 77-100.)

The Nieto chapter should look familiar to you; this week we take a closer look with an eye on defining culture in relation to learning.

What to look for: 

  • How does Nieto define "culture?" 
  • What is the relationship between culture and learning? 
  • What does this reading show us about culturally and linguistically diverse student learning? 
  • What does this reading show us about your role as a teacher of culturally and linguistically diverse students? 

Book icon Rogoff, B. (2003) | The Cultural Nature of Human Development (45 pages)

  • Rogoff, B. (2003). The cultural nature of human development. Oxford University Press.
    • Read: Chapter 7, Thinking with the Tools and Institutions of Culture. (Pages 236-281.)

What to look for: 

  • How do cultural tools shape learning and thinking?
  • How are students using these tools to make sense of new information?

Video icon Jamila Lysicott | 3 ways to speak English (4 minutes)

Transcript available Links to an external site.

What to look for: 

  • What from the video added, challenged, or affirmed your understanding of English and its different forms? 
  • What implications does your take away, learning, or affirmation have for how we work with our own bilingual/multilingual students and the varieties of language that they use and speak?