Abstract
Anyone who has used the Funds of Knowledge (FK) approach in their research work is familiar with the person who defined it. It has been several decades since Professor Luis Moll and Professor Norma González launched the hugely successful ’Community Literacy Project’, which has since been widely replicated and recognized internationally. While this is his best-known line of research, his work has had a much wider impact on the social sciences. This article highlights Dr Moll’s contributions to educational research, based on his interdisciplinary collaboration with anthropology as a discipline from which to analyse household practices on the US–Mexico border. Our aim is to recognize his political facet as a socially committed researcher who underscored, on the one hand, the need for recognition of the FK of border families and, on the other, the injustice of educational policies and the evident structural inequality across schools in the state of Arizona.
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