Social workers' roles in facilitating the collective involvement of low-income, culturally diverse parents in an elementary school

Children and Schools

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 172-182

  Alameda Lawson, Tania ^a   Lawson, Michael A ^b   Lawson, Hal A ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective parent involvement; Community based participatory research (CBPR); Low income schools; Neighborhood development; Social workers

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956229812     PISSN: 15328759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cs/32.3.172     Document Type: Article

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