Pathways to Community Engagement in Education
Collaboration in Diverse, Urban Neighbourhoods
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“Catherine Hands reports her study of educators and community partners in schools serving students and families with low incomes. She adds historic, geographic, scientific, and folkloric stories to deepen our understanding of the complex processes in establishing strong partnerships that will increase all students’ learning, health, and well-being. Then—going further—she sets a bigger and broader agenda on school, family, and community partnerships for all of us to consider. Across chapters, the book grows in importance.”
—Joyce L. Epstein, Professor of Education and Director of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships, Johns Hopkins University, USA
“Dr. Hands' book makes a unique contribution to the field by highlighting the voices of diverse community stakeholders as they engage with the education sector. Hands' timely text offers insights into the challenges and possibilities inherent in collaborative relationships as participants navigate increasingly complex political landscapes.”
—Michael Evans, Associate Professor of Family, School, and Community Connections, Miami University, USA
This book takes a comprehensive look at community engagement strategies in education to demonstrate the diverse nature of school-community relations and their value to promote their effective development. The author brings twenty years of experience in various educational settings in Ontario and California to examining community involvement policies and their interpretation, as well as school-community collaboration in practice. Chapters include recent research on school-community collaboration from the perspective of teachers, school district leaders, administrators, and support staff within two school districts in a low-income and culturally diverse urban community. The book also includes perspectives from community members involved in organizations across the city with a mandate to work with youth. In a time where students’ academic, social, and emotional support needs are on the rise, this book offers a valuable resource for strengthening school-community relations and demonstrating the power of collaboration.
Cohesively examines community engagement in education from a policy perspective as well as for initiative implementation Adds a Canadian perspective to the literature on school-community partnerships Conceptual links to different disciplines illustrate the centrality of issues seen in school-community partnerships
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Catherine M. Hands
Themen in »Pathways to Community Engagement in Education«
community engagement school-community partnerships school-community relations community involvement educational collaboration elementary education secondary education social contexts comparative education
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“Catherine Hands reports her study of educators and community partners in schools serving students and families with low incomes. She adds historic, geographic, scientific, and folkloric stories to deepen our understanding of the complex processes in establishing strong partnerships that will increase all students’ learning, health, and well-being. Then—going further—she sets a bigger and broader agenda on school, family, and community partnerships for all of us to consider. Across chapters, the book grows in importance.”
—Joyce L. Epstein, Professor of Education and Director of Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships, Johns Hopkins University, USA
“Dr. Hands' book makes a unique contribution to the field by highlighting the voices of diverse community stakeholders as they engage with the education sector. Hands' timely text offers insights into the challenges and possibilities inherent in collaborative relationships as participants navigate increasingly complex political landscapes.”
—Michael Evans, Associate Professor of Family, School, and Community Connections, Miami University, USA
“This book is an overdue and welcome addition to the important subject of school-community collaboration. In her book, Dr. Hands skillfully and engagingly tackles the theory, policy, practice, and research in this under-explored field. Not surprisingly, she underscores that doing the necessary work to ensure communities and schools collaborate effectively will ensure that all of our students—not just those living challenging lives—will benefit and we as educators and community members will create and nurture the kind of foundation inside and outside of the classroom needed by all of our students to thrive.
—Bryan Auld, Educator and Founder of Auld Educational Consultants, Canada
“Catherine’s book invites a boundless audience to learn about the important role school-community collaborations have on their neighbourhoods. She has ingeniously framed each chapter with a story offering the reader a scaffold to better understand the intersectional and multifaceted discipline of community engagement in education, through the interconnectedness of our world. A thorough and inspirational read!”
—Emilija Lafond, Educator and Director of Auxiliary Programs, Cambridge Montessori School, USA
“Hands provides a conceptual rendering of school-community relations in Pathways to Community Engagement in Education. Importantly, as the title suggests, she gives concrete expression to what it means to collaborate with community, which has become aspirational at all levels of our educational system but which can remain unrealized if such goals are steeped in platitudes or adages. The case studies upon which the book is centered are timely for emphasizing the value of, but also the challenges associated with, developing mutually beneficial community engagement policies and practices. It’s refreshing to have a more balanced commentary on this topic to dislodge oversimplified and romanticized thinking about what it means for schools to work with their inevitably complex external communities. Hands’ micro and macro level exploration would make Bronfenbrenner proud.”
—Bonnie Stelmach, Professor of Educational Administration and Leadership, University of Alberta, Canada
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