Just Schools: Building Equitable Collaborations with Families and Communities

ISBN-13: 9780807763209 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 208 str.

Ann M. Ishimaru; James a. Banks

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• Contents (Tentative)
• Series Foreword James A. Banks
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Situating “What Counts” for Families in Education
• Beyond Critique to Fostering Equitable Collaborations
• Showing Up in the Work
• A Few Notes on Language
• Organization of the Book
• Equitable Collaborations in Reaching for Transformation
• 1. Fuzzy Families, Prickly Racism: Framing the Problem Space
• Start with Warm Fuzzies: Families Matter
• Enter the Cold Pricklies: Racial Inequities from Parent Involvement to Family Engagement
• Conclusions: From Involvement and Engagement Toward Equitable Collaboration
• 2. New Rules of Engagement: From Conventional Partnerships to Equitable Collaborations
• Why Equitable Collaborations? Critical Race Theory, Community Organizing, and Sociocultural Learning
• Toward Equitable Collaborations: Case Study of a “New Relationship”
• A Changing Community: Traditional Approaches, Deficit Conceptions
• “We Had to Take Action”: New Roles for Parents in the Formation of the Coalition
• A Collaboration Emerges: Shared Responsibility for Systemic Change GOALS
• Capacity- and Relationship-Building STRATEGIES for Systems Change
• “Navigating Insecure Ground”: Change Processes at the End of the Honeymoon
• Case Discussion: A “New Relationship”
• Conclusions
• 3. Nondominant Families on Their Own Terms: Lived Theories of Educational Injustice
• Introduction
• Nondominant Family Insights as Lived Theories of Injustice
• “They Just Want to Pass the Kids”: Systemic Dynamics of Accountability Policy and Equitable Learning
• “Are You Speaking for Yourself or for All the Parents?”: Power and Engagement at the School Level
• Listening to Respond: Inequities in the Moment at the Individual Level
• Conclusions
• 4. Systemic Collaborations: Multiorganizational Educational Equity Initiatives
• Cross-Sector Collaborations: New Policy Contexts for Engagement
• New Context, Familiar Territory: Contextualizing Education Beyond the School Walls
• Cross-Sector “Collabetition”: Reinforcing Interorganizational Inequities
• Cultural Brokering as Bridging
• Emerging Approaches to Equitable Cutural Brokering
• Conclusions
• 5. Collaborating in Organizational Improvement: Data Inquiry with Families, Communities, and Educators
• Conceptualizing Relationships Between Families and Data
• A Model of Data Inquiry for Equitable Collaboration
• Questioning Phase
• Engaging Phase
• Making Sense Phase
• Tensions and Opportunities in Strategizing and Moving to Action
• Conclusions
• 6. Rewriting Moment-to-Moment Interactions: Families as Co-designers
• Racialized Institutional Scripts in Family–Teacher Relations
• Changing Racialized Institutional Scripts
• Putting Principles into Practice in Participatory Design-based Research
• Co-design Practices as Rewriting Racialized Institutional Scripts
• Repositioning Racial and Cultural Differences
• Conclusions
• 7. Co-designing Justice and Well-Being with/in Systems and Conclusions
• A Call to Reimagine Family and Community Engagement
• District Leaders and Co-design
• My Teaching Challenge: Proleptic Politic as Pedagogy
• Dilemmas as Systemic Tensions
• Co-design as “Solidarity-Dreaming”
• On Solidarities
• Conclusions (and New Openings)
• Appendix A: Initial Partnership Assessment Tool
• Appendix B: Final Lesson Topics and Design Principles
• Notes
• References
• Index
• About the Author