Including families and communities in urban education

The work of school, family and community partnerships is complex and messy and demands a thoughtful and deep investigation. Currently, parent and community involvement does not draw on school reform and educational change literature and conversely the school change literature often ignores the cruci...

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Other Authors Hands, Catherine M. (Editor), Hubbard, Lea, 1946- (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2011.
SeriesIssues in the research, theory, policy, and practice of urban education.
Subjects
Education, Urban > United States.
Education > Parent participation > United States.
Community and school > United States.
Children of minorities > Education > United States.
Educational equalization > United States.
Education > Administration > General.
Educational administration and organization.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806616589
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-401-4
Physical Description1 online resource (xii, 317 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Understanding family and community inclusion and engagement / Catherine M. Hands and Lea Hubbard
  • Metaphor as insight into parents' conceptualizations of their role in school improvement / Bonnie L. Stelmach
  • The role of leadership in forging family-school-community relationships / Lea Hubbard and Catherine M. Hands
  • Parent empowerment through organizing for collective action / Lauri Johnson, Julie Carter, and Mary Finn
  • Listening to parent voices: Home-school collaboration for diverse communities / Magaly Lavadenz and Elvira G. Armas
  • Fostering inclusive educational environments for American Indian parents and families in urban schools and communities / Susan C. Faircloth
  • Learning to organize for educational change: One cbo's efforts to influence educational policy / Michael P. Evans
  • Pioneer parents and creating pathways for involvement: A historical case study of school change and collective parental involvement / Erin McNamara Horvat
  • The math/science equity project: Working with educators to increase African American parental involvement in secondary math and science course placements / Roslyn A. Mickelson and Linwood H. Cousins
  • Shaping youth's identity through student-driven research / Susan Yonezawa and Makeba Jones
  • From mistrust to collaboration: Using transformational social therapy to support participation in school- community educational reform in a French banlieue / Novella Keith
  • Mapping family-school partnership programs through theories of action and logic models / Janet Chrispeels and Margarita Gonzalez
  • Conclusion: Themes from initiatives including families and community members in education.

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