Just Schools Building Equitable Collaborations with Families and Communities
Just Schools Building Equitable Collaborations with Families and Communities by Ann M. Ishimaru, published by Teachers College Press on December 27, 2019, is a comprehensive examination of the challenges and opportunities in fostering equitable collaboration between non-dominant families, communities, and schools. This 208-page book delves into the ongoing processes necessary for transforming power dynamics, building reciprocity, and enhancing collective capacity through inquiry, all aimed at improving student learning and educational systems.
Readers will find a detailed exploration of effective practices and core concepts that highlight the importance of including traditionally marginalized parents and communities as educational leaders. The book presents partnerships from both systemic and in-school perspectives, offering insights into what equitable collaboration can achieve. Through empirical research and practical examples, Just Schools provides a framework for enacting meaningful engagement with families, emphasizing the value of cultural practices and expertise in creating robust educational partnerships.
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Just Schools examines the challenges and possibilities for building more equitable forms of collaboration among non-dominant families, communities, and schools. The text explores how equitable collaboration entails ongoing processes that begin with families and communities, transform power, build reciprocity and agency, and foster collective capacity through collective inquiry. These processes offer promising possibilities for improving student learning, transforming educational systems, and developing robust partnerships that build on the resources, expertise, and cultural practices of nondominant families. Based on empirical research and inquiry-driven practice, this book describes core concepts and provides multiple examples of effective practices.
Book Features:
- Broadens the dominant conception of leadership to include traditionally marginalized parents and communities as potential educational leaders.
- Explores partnerships from both a systemwide and in-school basis, with detailed portraits of what is possible.
- Translates theoretical principles at multiple scales: systemic, school, and individual practice.
- Shares studies focused on a broad range of contexts, strategies, and practices for enacting equitable collaboration with families.
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