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Title Critical perspectives on education policy and schools, families, and communities / edited by Sue Winton, Gilliam Parekh.

Publication Info. Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Incorporated, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource (240 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Family School Community Partnership Issues Ser.
Family, school, community, partnership issues.
Note Description based upon print version of record.
Contents Cover -- Series page -- Critical Perspectives on Education Policy and Schools, Families, and Communities -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1: In/Exclusive Engagement of School Communities Through School District Decentralization -- CHAPTER 2: YPAR as Policy Production -- CHAPTER 3: To Interpret or Not to Interpret? -- CHAPTER 4: Radically Rethinking School Choice With Youths -- CHAPTER 5: Leaders of Color Navigating Policy in Diversifying Schools -- CHAPTER 6: Responsible for Normal -- CHAPTER 7: Parent Fundraising in Toronto Schools
CHAPTER 8: How Inclusive Do We Really Want to Be? -- CHAPTER 9: Applying Critical Race Theory to District-Level Behavior Policy -- CHAPTER 10: The (Un)Intended Consequences of Equity-Minded Educational Policy on Family and Community Engagement -- CHAPTER 11: Parent/Caregiver Involvement in Schools -- CHAPTER 12: The Implications of News Media Discourse About Immigrants and Immigration Policy for School-Family Engagement
Summary "Critical perspectives on education policy and schools, Families, and Communities offers scholars, students, and practitioners important new knowledge about how current policies impact families, schools, and community partnerships. The book's authors share a critical orientation towards policy and policy research and invite readers to think differently about what policy is, who policymakers are, and what policy can achieve. Their chapters discuss findings from research grounded in diverse theories, including institutional ethnography, critical disability theory, and critical race theory. The authors encourage FSC scholars to ask who benefits from policies (and who loses) and how proposed reforms maintain or disrupt existing relations of power. The chapters present original research on a broad range of policies at the local, state/provincial, and national levels in Canada and the USA. Some authors look closely at the enactment of specific district policies, including a school district's language translation policy and a to policy create local advisory bodies as part of decentralization efforts. Other chapters reveal the often unacknowledged yet necessary work parents do to meet their children's needs and enable schools to operate. A few chapters focus on challenges and paradoxes of including families and community members in policymaking processes, including a case where parents demonstrated a preference for a policy that research demonstrates is detrimental to their children's future education opportunities. Another set of chapters emphasizes the centrality of policy texts and how language influences the educational experiences and engagement of students and their families. Each chapter concludes with a discussion of implications of the research for educators, families, and other community partners"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Education and state -- Canada.
Education and state.
Canada.
Education and state -- United States.
United States.
School management and organization -- Canada.
School management and organization.
School management and organization -- United States.
Home and school -- Canada.
Home and school.
Home and school -- United States.
Community and school -- Canada.
Community and school.
Community and school -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Winton, Sue, editor.
Parekh, Gillian, 1977- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Winton, Sue Critical Perspectives on Education Policy and Schools, Families, and Communities Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Incorporated,c2020 9781641138802
ISBN 1641138815
9781641138819 (electronic book)
9781641138802
1641138807
9781641138796
1641138793