Just Schools: Building Equitable Collaborations with Families and Communities (Multicultural Education Series) - Softcover

Ishimaru, Ann M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807763195 ISBN 13: 9780807763193

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Ann M. Ishimaru is an associate professor of educational policy, organizations, and leadership at the University of Washington College of Education.

Review

“Ann Ishimaru's book is the most compelling work to date on school and community engagement. The data is gripping, and not only presents multiple models of how educators can follow community-based ways of engagement, but also proves deeply useful for parents that seek to better understand and navigate schools that have struggled to serve their communities well. Deep and complex theories and histories around race, power, and privilege in school and community are articulated in powerful and accessible ways, making this a must-read for educators and scholars alike. It will be required reading for all my future classes.”
―Muhammad Khalifa, Beck Chair of Ideas in Education, University of Minnesota

“Just Schools makes a bold and vital contribution to education reform by challenging educators to include parents as vital leaders in school transformation and community development. Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated, the book is also full of practical steps that educators and administrators can and must take to build strong collaborations with families that will produce desperately-needed equity-oriented changes in schools, school systems and their surrounding communities”
―Mark R. Warren, professor of public policy and public affairs, University of Massachusetts Boston

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0807763195
• ISBN 13: 9780807763193
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 216