Just schools : building equitable collaborations with families and communities / Ann M. Ishimaru.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ishimaru, Ann M., author.

Series:

Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.)

Multicultural education series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community and school--United States.

Community and school.

United States.

Education--Parent participation--United States.

Education.

Education--Parent participation.

Educational equalization--United States.

Educational equalization.

Physical Description:

xv, 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Teachers College Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Just Schools examines the challenges and possibilities for building more equitable forms of collaboration among nondominant families, communities, and schools. The text explores how equitable collaboration entails ongoing processes that transform power, build reciprocity and agency, and foster collective capacity. This book describes core concepts and provides multiple examples of effective practices"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Situating "What Counts" for Families in Education p. 2

Beyond Critique to Fostering Equitable Collaborations p. 4

Showing Up in the Work p. 5

A Few Notes on Language p. 7

Equitable Collaborations in Reaching for Transformation p. 13

1 Fuzzy Families, Prickly Racism: Framing the Problem Space p. 14

Start with Warm Fuzzies: Families Matter p. 15

Enter the Cold Pricklies: Racial Inequities from Parent Involvement to Family Engagement p. 17

Conclusions: From Involvement and Engagement Toward Equitable Collaboration p. 33

2 New Rules of Engagement: From Conventional Partnerships to Equitable Collaborations p. 35

Why Equitable Collaborations? Critical Race Theory, Community Organizing, and Sociocultural Learning p. 37

Toward Equitable Collaborations: Case Study of a "New Relationship" p. 42

A Changing Community: Traditional Approaches, Deficit Conceptions p. 43

"We Had to Take Action": New Roles for Parents in the Formation of the Coalition p. 44

A Collaboration Emerges: Shared Responsibility for Systemic Change Goals p. 46

Capacity- and Relationship-Building Strategies for Systems Change p. 47

"Navigating Insecure Ground": Change Processes at the End of the Honeymoon p. 49

Case Discussion: A "New Relationship" p. 50

3 Nondominant Families on Their Own Terms: Lived Theories of Educational Injustice p. 56

Nondominant Family Insights as Lived Theories of Injustice p. 57

"They Just Want to Pass the Kids": Systemic Dynamics of Accountability Policy and Equitable Learning p. 58

"Are You Speaking for Yourself or for All the Parents?": Power and Engagement at the School Level p. 61

Listening to Respond: Inequities in the Moment at the Individual Level p. 66

4 Systemic Collaborations: Multiorganizational Educational Equity Initiatives p. 73

Cross-Sector Collaborations: New Policy Contexts for Engagement p. 74

New Context, Familiar Territory: Conceptualizing Education Beyond the School Walls p. 75

Cross-Sector "Collabetition": Reinforcing Interorganizational Inequities p. 77

Cultural Brokering as Bridging p. 82

Emerging Approaches to Equitable Cultural Brokering p. 85

5 Collaborating in Organizational Improvement: Data Inquiry with Families, Communities, and Educators p. 96

Conceptualizing Relationships Between Families and Data p. 99

A Model of Data Inquiry for Equitable Collaboration p. 106

Questioning Phase p. 108

Engaging Phase p. 111

Making Sense Phase p. 114

Tensions and Opportunities in Strategizing and Moving to Action p. 118

6 Rewriting Moment-to-Moment Interactions: Families as Co-Designers p. 120

Racialized Institutional Scripts in Family-Teacher Relations p. 121

Changing Racialized Institutional Scripts p. 125

Putting Principles into Practice in Participatory Design-Based Research p. 127

Co-Design Practices as Rewriting Racialized Institutional Scripts p. 135

Repositioning Racial and Cultural Differences p. 136

7 Co-Designing Justice and Well-Being with/in Systems and Conclusions p. 140

A Call to Reimagine Family and Community Engagement p. 141

District Leaders and Co-Design p. 143

My Teaching Challenge: Proleptic Politic as Pedagogy p. 144

Dilemmas as Systemic Tensions p. 146

Co-Design as "Solidarity-Dreaming" p. 158

On Solidarities p. 162

Conclusions (and New Openings) p. 162.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-187) and index.

ISBN:

9780807763209

0807763209

9780807763193

0807763195

OCLC:

1134989969