Rewriting the Rules of Engagement: Elaborating a Model of District-Community Collaboration
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Rewriting the Rules of Engagement: Elaborating a Model of District-Community Collaboration
Abstract/Description
In this ethnographic case study, Ann M. Ishimaru examines how a collaboration emerged and evolved between a low-income Latino parent organizing group and the leadership of a rapidly changing school district. Using civic capacity and community organizing theories, Ishimaru seeks to understand the role of parents, goals, strategies, and change processes that characterize a school district's collaboration with a community-based organization. Her findings suggest an emergent model of collaboration that engages parents as educational leaders, focuses on shared systemic goals, strategically builds capacity and relationships, and addresses educational change as political process. This emergent model stands in contrast to traditional partnerships between communities and school or district leadership that often reflect deficit conceptions of marginalized parents and families. By rewriting the rules of engagement, parents, families, and community members can contribute critical resources to enable districts and schools to educate all students more equitably.
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Date
In publication
Volume
84
Issue
2
Pages
188-216
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Empirical
IRE Approach/Concept
Featured case/project
ISSN
0017-8055
Citation
Ishimaru, A. M. (2014). Rewriting the Rules of Engagement: Elaborating a Model of District-Community Collaboration. Harvard Educational Review, 84(2), 188–216.
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| Title | Alternate label | Class |
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 Just Schools: Building Equitable Collaborations with Families and Communities |
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