Fortifying Parent Partnerships Through the Black Church Space

2018 ◽  
pp. 118-137
Author(s):  
Libra N. Boyd
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Church ◽  
African American Parents ◽  
Technology Access ◽  
School Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
Parent Partnerships ◽  
Successful School ◽  
Collaborative Activities ◽  
Community Space

This chapter examines the Black Church as a community space for African American families to engage in collaborative activities with schools. The author explores why the Black Church functions as a desirable space for collaborations between schools and African American parents, as well as how schools can make greater use of church space to strengthen their parent partnerships. The author identifies several barriers to successful school-based partnerships including parent work schedules, socioeconomic status, mistrust of mainstream education, busyness of school staff, limited technology access and proficiency, and lack of culturally relevant experiences. The author offers recommendations for expanding outreach efforts with approaches that lean on the social and cultural relevance of the Black Church as well as some of its resources.

African American Parents’ Educational Involvement in Urban Schools: Contextualized Strategies for Student Success in Adolescence

2020 ◽  
pp. 0013189X2094319
Author(s):  
James P. Huguley ◽  
Lori Delale-O’Connor ◽  
Ming-Te Wang ◽  
Alyssa K. Parr
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Academic Socialization ◽  
African American Parents ◽  
School Based ◽  
Home Based ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Educational Involvement ◽  
Optimal Parenting

Research on parental educational involvement has been organized into three overarching domains—home-based involvement, school-based involvement, and academic socialization. Conventional empirical work in these domains typically centers involvement strategies around White, middle-class experiences rather than examining how optimal parenting approaches vary by race and context. Even fewer studies have explored the manifestations of involvement across these categories in underresourced urban educational settings. In response, the current study draws on the voices of African American parents and their children attending urban public schools to describe the distinct approaches to home-based involvement, school-based involvement, and academic socialization that parents use to ensure a quality education for their children. Findings demonstrate how African American parents engage in racially infused and contextually tailored navigational involvement approaches as they seek to offset the effects of inhibiting educational contexts. Results add ecological nuance and new typologies to how parental involvement in education is conceptualized across the settings.

Skills and Strategies of African American Parents in the Management of ADHD: A Qualitative Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (13) ◽  
pp. 1867-1875
Author(s):  
Alexandria Saulsberry ◽  
Melishia Bansa ◽  
Daniela DeFrino ◽  
Constance M. Dallas
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Family Members ◽  
African American Parents ◽  
Parent Beliefs ◽  
Children With Adhd ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
African American Parent ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Skills

Objective: The purpose of this study is to use a strengths-based approach to determine African American parents’ skills and strategies for management of children with ADHD. Method: Four focus groups were conducted to identify African American parent beliefs about appropriate ADHD management. Sixteen parents participated and reported having a total of 21 children diagnosed with ADHD. Results: Participants discussed several parenting challenges but advocated for the child by working closely with the child’s school and physician. They also managed relationships with family members to protect the child from possible physical or emotional harm. However, parents desired more social support for management of ADHD. Conclusion: African American parents possess key skills and strategies in their management of children with ADHD. Further research is needed to determine the roles and responsibilities of extended family members for children with this disorder, and to identify the social supports parents access to aid with ADHD management.

Achieving Social Mobility Through Education: An Ethnographic Study of African American Parents

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashland Thompson ◽  
Sherry C. Eaton ◽  
Linda M. Burton ◽  
Whitney Welsh ◽  
Jonathan Livingston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
African American Parents

Nuanced and Dissenting Voices

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peggy J. Miller ◽  
Grace E. Cho
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
African American Parents ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Social Positioning ◽  
Conservative Christian ◽  
Bakhtinian Theory

Chapter 4, “Nuanced and Dissenting Voices,” examines the nuances diverse parents brought to their understandings of childrearing and self-esteem. Framed within Bakhtinian theory, this chapter gives voice to African American parents, working-class parents, conservative Christian parents, and mothers, particularly women who had experienced low self-esteem. These parents endorsed self-esteem, but refracted the language of the self-esteem imaginary in ways that made sense, given their diverse values and ideological commitments, social positioning, and idiosyncratic experiences. This chapter also describes the perspectives of two groups from the larger study who challenged key elements of the dominant discourse: grandmothers of Centerville children who raised their children in an earlier era, and Taiwanese parents who grew up in a different cultural context but were temporarily residing and raising their children in Centerville. These two groups of dissenters underscore again the book’s theme that self-esteem is rooted in time and place.

African American Religions in the Nineteenth Century

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Suzanne Clark
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Black Church ◽  
African Methodist Episcopal ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
Methodist Episcopal ◽  
African American Religion ◽  
African Methodist Episcopal Church ◽  
Methodist Episcopal Church

The typical story of African American religions narrates the development and power of the Protestant black church, but shifting the focus to the long nineteenth century can reorient the significance of the story. The nineteenth century saw the boom of Christian conversions among African Americans, but it also was a century of religious diversity. All forms of African American religion frequently pushed against the dominance of whiteness. This included the harming and cursing element of Conjure and southern hoodoo, the casting of slaves as Old Israel awaiting their exodus from bondage, the communications between the spirit of Abraham Lincoln and Afro-Creoles in New Orleans, and the push for autonomy and leadership by Richard Allen and the rest of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. While many studies of African American religions in the nineteenth century overwhelmingly focus on Protestantism, this is only part of the story.

scholarly journals Urban, low-income, African American parents' experiences and expectations of well-child care

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 24-30
Author(s):  
Kara S. Koschmann ◽  
Cynthia J. Peden-McAlpine ◽  
Mary Chesney ◽  
Susan M. Mason ◽  
Mary C. Hooke
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
African American Parents ◽  
Well Child Care ◽  
Parents Experiences
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