Pathways to Community Engagement in Education

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

Auteur
Catherine M. Hands is Professor of Education Administration and Leadership at Brock University, Canada. She has worked with Canadian and American school districts, teachers' unions, and the Ontario Ministry of Education as a researcher and consultant. Her research interests include school-community relations, family involvement in schooling, educational leadership, values and ethics in education, social justice, professional learning communities, and education reform.

Contenu
Chapter 1: Introduction to Pathways to Community Engagement in Education: School-Community Collaboration in Diverse, Urban Neighbourhoods.- Chapter 2: Interpreting the Map and Navigating to Destinations: Using School-Community Policy to Influence Practice.- Chapter 3: Sustainable Partnerships: The Ecology of Community Engagement Initiatives The Ecology of Collaboration.- Chapter 4: The Social Contexts and Permeable Borders That Influence Partnerships Intertwined Open Systems: A Depiction of School-Community Interaction.- Chapter 5: Networks: The Importance of Who and What You Know Networks and Social Capital: Linking Schools and Communities.- Chapter 6: Building Bridges and Crossing Boundaries Social Networks and Boundary Spanners.- Chapter 7: Facilitating or Frustrating Efforts to Collaborate Social Contexts that Facilitate or Frustrate Collaborative Efforts.- Chapter 8: Collaboration to Support Vulnerable Populations Collaboration as a Gateway to Social Capital.- Chapter 9: Thriving and Not Just Surviving: Support for Mental Health in a Networked Community.- Chapter 10: Creating Schools as Community Hubs Through Collaboration A School-Community Relations Continuum.