Community and School Collaborations: Tapping into Community Organizing Initiatives and Resources
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Community and School Collaborations: Tapping into Community Organizing Initiatives and Resources
Abstract/Description
This chapter examines bicultural parents and their participation in public schools using community organizations as a medium for their interactions. Two organizations, the Salem Keizer Coalition for Equality (SKCE) of Salem, Oregon and Parent Power of Indianapolis, Indiana are used to examine the ways that bicultural parents and community members may work outside the public school context to promote local community interests as well as school objectives. Parent and family involvement in schools ranks high among the factors that have a positive effect on the school performance of bicultural children. Community organizing is the most commonly used term to describe the process in which community members harness local resources and power to create institutional and policy change on their own behalf. Grassroots community organizing with bicultural parents is a fascinating phenomenon in that it challenges many myths about what bicultural parents are capable of doing, or willing to do, for their children and their community.
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Date
In publication
Pages
11-28
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Empirical
IRE Approach/Concept
Featured case/project
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Open access/full-text available
No
Citation
Olivos, E. M. (2019). Community and School Collaborations. In The Wiley Handbook of Family, School, and Community Relationships in Education (pp. 9–27). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119083054.ch1
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