Cultural Diversity Merced County Head Start · Cultural Diversity Merced County Head Start New Community Center, Los Baños Merced April 6, 2011 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Joan Wink, Ph

Cultural DiversityMerced County Head Start

New Community Center, Los BañosMerced

April 6, 2011 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.Joan Wink, Ph. D.Professor Emerita

www.JoanWink.com

Retrieved from: www.joanwink.com/scheditems/merced_pres-040611.pdf

Our Thinking Today

• 3 Perspectives on Teaching and Learning

• 2 Stories• Break• Language and Culture• Play



3 Things to Keep in Mind

• Play• The value of early childhood

education• Generative/constructivist

teaching/learning


Our Stories Matter

•How We Get Another Language“Mama’s, Meaning, and Motivation”

•Cultural Diversity“Those People”


Mamas, Meaning, and Motivation

• Krashen: Low Affective Filter Comprehensible Input

http://www.joanwink.com/love/love-mamas.php


Reflective Cycle


Danielle Dyrda’s reflective cycle


“Those People”

http://www.joanwink.com/pub/pub-those.php


What is the “other?”


Stop. Stare. Scribble. Share.

Stop Stare Scribble Share

An Iceberg


Cummins’ Iceberg


What is culture?

•Cultures are learned and shared.•Many layers of cultures; we each belong to various cultures.•Some are static, and some are vibrant, robust, and dynamic.



Culture and Language


What is bicultural ambivalence?


Threshold Hypothesis


Tove Skutnabb-Kangas


Bilingual Bike


What is heritage language?


A Head Taller in

Play

Play mediates the learning of children

In play, children become a head taller than their currents selves.

Vygotsky, 1978

Play Creates a ZPD


PLAY

Play is the work of children.

(Vygotsky)http://www.joanwink.com/vov-order.php



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Cultural Diversity Merced County Head Start · Cultural Diversity Merced County Head Start New Community Center, Los Baños Merced April 6, 2011 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Joan Wink, Ph