Cultural Intelligence in the School Inteligencia cultural en la escuela

Abstract: A wide range of research, including Scribner’s cultural psychology, work by Rogoff and Lave on daily and situated cognition, and the notion of funds of knowledge (Moll & González, 2004), has demonstrated that all people have cultural intelligence which allows them to address and resolve many problems in daily life. In the same vein, the study of successful educational actions within the framework of the INCLUD-ED project reveals that more types of intelligence must be included in schools if educators are to respond suc-cessfully to the educational demands of highly heterogeneous classrooms. Using two case studies of community-based educational projects in Spain, this article shows how it is essen-tial to recognize the cultural intelligence of all students in order to connect learning in class-rooms with life outside school and thus provide meaning and a context for school knowl-edge. Key words: Cultural intelligence, funds of knowledge, communicative intelligence. Resumen: La psicología cultural de Scribner, los estudios sobre la cognición cotidiana situada (como los de Rogoff y Lave) y nociones como la de «fondos de conocimiento» (Moll & González, 2004) han demostrado que todas las personas tienen «inteligencia cul