Equity Issues in Parental and Community Involvement in Schools

Parental Involvement During the College Transition: A Review and Suggestion for its Conceptual Definition

“…Programming efforts for underrepresented racial/ethnic minorities may especially benefit from this work, as family support and involvement have been positively associated with minority students' college enrollment, retention, and graduation (e.g., Perna and Titus 2005), but families often feel very disconnected from the US educational environment starting from the elementary level (Baquedano-López et al 2013). Thus, identifying how to incorporate these families into a context in which they have felt persistently excluded is of great importance for supporting minority students' college success.…”

Conceptualising teachers’ advocacy as comedic trickster behaviour: Implications for teacher education

“…The fact that students and their families generally have little decision making power in schools can no longer be ignored (Baquedano-López et al 2013). In order to mitigate this power imbalance, there are increasing calls for teachers to act as advocates for all students (Kelly 1986;Zeichner 2003), but especially for students who have been traditionally denied full participation in school contexts (Barolomé 2004;Roberts & Siegel 2012).…”

Teaching Macro Social Work through Experiential Learning: Student Reflections on Lessons Learned in Building School-Community Partnerships

“…Traditional models of parent involvement in schools often do not respond effectively to financially poor families, families of color, or those from diverse cultural backgrounds (Baquedano-López, Alexander, & Hernandez, 2013). Families who live with poverty are particularly vulnerable as they are likely to have higher exposure to multiple stressors contributing to physical and mental health concerns that make engagement with their children's schools difficult (Blitz, Kida, Gresham, & Bronstein, 2013).…”