Case Study 8 – Destabilising Methodologies: Working toward Democratic Parent Engagement

This paper looks at strengthening parent engagement in education, focusing on leadership strategies for reaching and supporting parents. The qualitative case study of a district’s multiple approaches for enhancing parent engagement involved 8 individual and focus group interviews, observations, and document analyses. The superintendent and principals shared leadership with school councils for developing initiatives. They collaborated with community organizations to provide parenting support, social services and resources to enable participation. Despite some success, the leaders were challenged to establish engagement programs widely across the district due to a managed, hierarchical, organizational structure and limited parent input on educational goals. The research contributes to a discussion of enhancing relations among families and schools to promote all students’ academic achievement and wellbeing.

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Professional Development to Support Parent Engagement: A Case Study of Early Childhood Practitioners

Early Education and Development ◽

10.1080/10409280902783475 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 482-506 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Jill R. Brown ◽

Lisa L. Knoche ◽

Carolyn P. Edwards ◽

Susan M. Sheridan

Keyword(s):

Professional Development ◽

Early Childhood ◽

Parent Engagement

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Multigenerational Art Making at a Community School: A Case Study of Transformative Parent Engagement

Harvard Educational Review ◽

10.17763/1943-5045-91.4.511 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 91 (4) ◽

pp. 511-536

Author(s):

KEVIN M. KANE ◽

KAREN HUNTER QUARTZ ◽

LINDSEY T. KUNISAKI

Keyword(s):

Social Services ◽

Parent Engagement ◽

Community Schools ◽

Community School ◽

Art Making ◽

Cultural Wealth ◽

Student Supports ◽

Transformative Impact ◽

Embedded Case Study

In this article, Kevin M. Kane, Karen Hunter Quartz, and Lindsey T. Kunisaki describe the transformative parent engagement fostered in a multigenerational afterschool arts program at a community school. Community schools bring together families, teachers, and other neighborhood partners to help students learn, grow, and thrive and often integrate health, education, and social services. This embedded case study shows how community schools can also nurture cultural assets in the form of parents’ community cultural wealth. The learning of these community school parents demonstrates the mutually reinforcing relationships between transformative parent engagement, collaborative leadership, expanded learning opportunities, and integrated student supports. This study highlights the transformative impact of culturally sustaining arts on individuals, families, and the school as a whole, offering implications for researchers and practitioners in community-based arts education and community school development.

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Flipped learning and parent engagement in secondary schools: A South Australian case study

British Journal of Educational Technology ◽

10.1111/bjet.12765 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 50 (3) ◽

pp. 1294-1319 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Melissa Bond

Keyword(s):

Secondary Schools ◽

Parent Engagement ◽

Flipped Learning ◽

Australian Case

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The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x13009850 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 38 (01) ◽

pp. 102-129

Author(s):

ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽

EUDALD CORTINA ORERO

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

El Salvador ◽

Early Years ◽

Left Wing ◽

Internal Dynamics ◽

Internal Coherence ◽

The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

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Culture and the plasticity of perception

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19002887 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Lifshitz ◽

T. M. Luhrmann

Keyword(s):

Cultural Context ◽

Sensory Experience ◽

Cultural Learning ◽

The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

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