Week 1 - Revision Quiz

LINKS BETWEEN FUNDS OF IDENTITY AND FUNDS OF KNOWLEDGE: 

How could the relationship between FoK and FoI be described? 

• All FoK are FoI

• All FoI are FoK 

• FoK and FoI are the same

• FoK belong to families, and FoI belong to individuals 

FOI AS A SOCIOCULTURAL CONCEPT 

FoI theory is grounded in sociocultural theory (Vygotsky, 1978). Which statement best summarizes a key idea in sociocultural theory? 

• Individual development and learning are more limited for some students, because of their sociocultural circumstances.

• Pasifika students are all similar because Pasifika people all influence each other.  

• An individual’s development is affected by their ethnicity, and they the way their ethnic group lives life is dynamic, because it is affected by the group themselves.  

• An individual’s development is influenced by the way of living they grow up in (e.g., affected by social class, ethnicity, religion etc.), and they themselves affect the way of life. 

• Pasifika students’ identity and learning is primarily influenced by the traditional way of life in the Pacific Islands. 

IMPLICATIONS OF FOI THEORY FOR TEACHERS: 

What does funds of identity theory mean for teachers, in terms of working effectively with Pasifika students? 

• Teachers of Pasifika students need to learn about things that are important in Pasifika cultures. 

• Teachers of Pasifika students need to learn about things that are important in Pasifika cultures, and also they need to learn about individuals within the group. 

• Everyone’s personality is different, and that’s why it is important for teachers to keep the focus on learning about individuals. 

• Teachers would benefit from learning about the traditional way of life in the Islands, to best work with their Pasifika students.

• When a teacher invests time to learn about some Pasifika students’ funds of identity, this will mean that in future years they can support other Pasifika students effectively.

EACH PERSON’S UNIQUE EXPERIENCE OF LIFE: 

What term relates to the way that each person has a unique experience of their circumstances (which means that someone else in the same situation would experience them differently, and may feel differently about the same situation): 

• Culture 

• Funds of identity (FoI) 

• Funds of knowledge (FoK) 

• Perezhivanie 

• Personality 

MEANINGFUL EDUCATION ACCORDING TO VYGOTSKY: 

Hogg and Volman (2020) explain ideas from sociocultural theory (Vygotsky, 1986) about what makes education meaningful. Which statement best captures Vygotsky’s (1986) key point: 

• The teacher makes learning more relevant to the student’s ethnic group. 

• The teacher can tell the student that the learning is relevant to them.  

• The student can see the relevance of the learning to their life. 

• The teacher can tell the student to think of something from their life that connects with what they are learning in class.