My culture my learning capital my tool for thought: black students learning processes

OUTPUT TYPE: Monograph (Book)
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2012
TITLE AUTHOR(S): N.Feza
KEYWORDS: AFRICAN PEOPLE, LEARNER PERFORMANCE, MOTHER-TONGUE EDUCATION, SELF-ESTEEM, SKILLS DEVELOPMENT, STUDENTS (COLLEGE)
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 7472
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3210
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3210

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Abstract

Being a black student comes with a history of alienation. Where your home language and culture has no place in your learning. Black students indicate the importance of their languages in sense making, they display their potential in attaining higher levels of thinking when new ideas are connected to their cultural tools. Mathematics ideas are not far fetched but continue to be used to marginalise.