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From Family Engagement to Equitable Collaboration

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From Family Engagement to Equitable Collaboration
Abstract/Description
Policy makers have long seen parents and families as key levers for improving U.S. student outcomes and success, and new cross-sector collaborative policy and initiatives provide a promising context for innovations in efforts to engage nondominant families in educational equity reform. Drawing on a lens of equitable collaboration, this study examined the strategies in three organizational efforts to improve family engagement in education within a common cross-sector collaboration initiative in a Western region of the United States. Although conventional approaches persisted amid regular exchanges across organizations, we identified more reciprocal, collective, and relational strategies: (a) parent capacity-building, (b) relationship-building, and (c) systemic capacity-building efforts. Despite promising strategies, the dynamics of implementation in the cross-sector collaborative constrained change and mirrored limitations in family engagement practice and policy. The article concludes with next steps for research, practice, and policy in the journey toward more equitable collaboration.
Author/creator
Ishimaru, Ann M.
Date
2019
In publication
Educational Policy
Volume
33
Issue
2
Pages
350-385
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Empirical
Keywords
family engagement
educational equity
cross-sector collaboration
parent involvement
school–community relations
IRE Approach/Concept
Equity
Family Engagement
Equitable Collaboration
School Community Partnership
Co-Design
Capacity Building
Infrastructure
Cultural Brokerage
Featured case/project
Pathways Project
Language
en
Open access/full-text available
en No
Peer reviewed
en Yes
ISSN
0895-9048
DOI
10.1177/0895904817691841
URL
Publisher Webpage
Citation
Ishimaru, A. M. (2019). From Family Engagement to Equitable Collaboration. Educational Policy, 33(2), 350–385. https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904817691841
Abbreviation
Educational Policy

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Just Schools: Building Equitable Collaborations with Families and Communities Book

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