Family Engagement - Dr. Julissa Ventura PDF

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Family Engagement 11/7 Community driven education ○ How do families and communities interact with schools? What roles have communities played in education policy/reform and practice? Education beyond school ○ Heritage language schools, church, schools, sports ○ Community organizations ○ Families Approaches to parental involvement ○ Parents as problems ■ Boarding schools and americanization programs in 19th and early 20the centuries ○ Parents as first teachers ■ Focus on early childhood ○ Parents as learners ■ Family literacy programs ○ Parents as partners ■ School agenda ○ Parents as chooser/consumers ■ Individual market based selection of school options Key equity issues in parent and community involvement ○ Race ■ Institutional barriers that come with racism ■ Racist attitudes ■ Multiple forms of surveillance and discipline ○ Class ■ School structures and practices align with middle class culture ○ Immigration ■ Multicultural and multilingual caputal of immigrant families ■ Subtractive and linguistically and educationally restrictive ■ Undocumented parents face even greater baries Empowerment Approaches ○ Greirian school-based parent organizing ○ Parent community organizing ○ Home-school connections funds of knowledge ○ Role of institutional agents ○ Decolonial ■ Challenges foundations of Eurocentric thinking...