Placing Immigrant and Minority Family and Community Members at the School's Centre: The role of community participation

European Journal of Education

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 184-196

  Díez, Javier ^a   Gatt, Suzanne ^b   Racionero, Sandra ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Family and community participation; Inclusion; Minority and immigrant families; Parental involvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957477687     PISSN: 01418211     EISSN: 14653435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-3435.2011.01474.x     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Althusser, L. (1971) Lenin and Philosophy, and other Essays (London, New Left Books).
2. Apple, M. W. (2000) Official Knowledge (New York, Routledge).
3. Apple, M. W. & Beane, J. A. (2007) Democratic Schools. Lessons in powerful Education (Portsmouth, NH, Heinemann).
4. Au, K. & Jordan, C. (1981) Teaching reading to Hawaiian children: finding a culturally appropriate solution, in: H.T. Trueba, G.P. Guthrie & K. Au (Eds) Culture and the Bilingual Classroom: studies in classroom ethnography (Rowley, MA, Newbury House).
5. Aubert, A. & Lalor, J. (2011). Moving beyond social exclusion through dialogue, International Studies in Sociology of Education, 21, pp. 63-75.
6. Baudelot, D. & Establet, R. (1976) L'école Capitaliste en France (Paris, Maspero).
7. Beck, U., Giddens, A. & Lash, S. (1994) Reflexive Modernization: politics, tradition and aesthetics in the modern social order (Cambridge, Polity Press).
8. Bourdieu, P.(1984) Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste (London, Routledge).
9. Bowles, H. & Mcginn, K. (2008) Untapped potential in the study of negotiation and gender inequality in organizations, Academy of Management Annals, 2, pp. 99-132.
10. Bronfenbrenner, U. (1979) The Ecology of Human Development (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press).
11. Carneiro, R. & Draxler, A. (2008) Education for the 21st century: lessons and challenges, European Journal of Education, 43, pp. 149-160.
12. Cazden, C. B. & Leggett, E. L. (1981) Culturally responsive education: recommendations for achieving Lau remedies II, in: H. T. Trueba, G. P. Guthrie & K. Au (Eds) Culture and the Bilingual Classroom: studies in classroom ethnography (Rowley, Newbury House Publishers).
13. Delgado-Gaitan, C. (1992) School matters in the Mexican-American home: socializing children to education, American Educational Research Journal, 29, pp. 495-513.
14. Delgado-Gaitan, C. (1994) 'Consejos': the power of cultural narratives, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 25, pp. 298-316.
15. Derman-Sparks, L. & Task Force, A. B. C. (1989) Anti-Bias Curriculum: tools for empowering young children (Washington D.C., National Association for the Education of Young Children).
16. Epstein, J. & Becker, H. (1982) Teachers' reported practices of parent involvement: problems and possibilities, The Elementary School Journal, 83, pp. 103-113.
17. Epstein, J. (2001) School, Family, and Community Partnerships: preparing educators and improving schools (Boulder, CO, Westview Press).
18. European Commission (2008) European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion (2010). Strategic Framework Document (Brussels, European Commission).
19. European Commission (2010) Joint Report on Social Protection and Social Inclusion (Luxembourg, Publications Office of the European Union).
20. European Parliament (2009) Resolution of 2 April 2009 on Educating the Children of Migrants .
21. Faires, J., Nichols W. B. & Rickelmann R. J. (2000) Effects of parental involvement in developing competent readers in first grade, Reading Psychology, 21, pp. 195-215.
22. Flecha, R. (2000) Sharing Words (Lanham, M.D., Rowman & Littlefield).
23. Flecha, R. (2010) The educative city and critical education, in: M. Appel, A. Wayne, & L. A. Gandin (Eds) The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education, pp. 327-340 (New York, Routledge).
24. Flores-Gonzalez, N. (2002) School Kids/Street Kids: Identity development in latino students (New York, Teachers College Press).
25. Freire, P. (2004) Pedagogy of the Hope: reliving pedagogy of the oppressed (London, Continuum).
26. Frome, P. M. & Eccles, J. S. (1998) Parents' influence on children's achievement - related perceptions, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 74, pp. 435-452.
27. Gandin, L. A. & Apple, M. W. (2002) Challenging neo-liberalism, building democracy: creating the citizen school in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Journal of Education Policy, 17, pp. 259-279.
28. García, E. (2002) Student Cultural Diversity. Understanding and Meeting the Challenge (Boston, Houghton Mifflin).
29. Giddens, A. (1984) The Constitution of Society: outline of the theory of structuration (Berkeley, University of California Press).
30. Gómez, A., Puigvert, L. & Flecha, R. (2011) Critical Communicative Methodology: informing real social transformation through research, Qualitative Inquiry, 17, pp. 235-245.
31. González, N., Moll, L. & Amanti, C. (2005) Funds of Knowledge: theorizing practices in households and classrooms (New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).
32. Grant C. A. & Sleeter, C. E. (1986) After the School Bell Rings (Philadelphia, The Falmer Press).
33. Green, A., Preston J. & Sabates R. (2003) Education, equality and social cohesion: a distributional approach, Compare, 33, pp. 453-470.
34. Habermas, J. (1984) The Theory of Communicative Action. V. 1. Reason and the Rationalization of Society (Boston, Beacon Press).
35. Hidalgo, N. M, Epstein, J. K. & Siu, S. (2002) Research on families, schools, and communities. A multicultural perspective, in: J.A. Banks & C.A. Banks (Eds) Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education (New York, Macmillan).
36. Includ-Ed Consortium (2009) Actions for Success in Schools in Europe (Brussels, European Commission).
37. Irvine, J. (1990) Black Students and School Failure (Westport, CT, Greenwood).
38. Jordon, G. E., Snow C. E. & Porche M. V. (2000) Project EASR: the effect of a family literacy project on kindergarten students early literacy skills, Reading Research Quarterly, 35, pp. 524-546.
39. Kakwani, N. & Silber, J. (Eds) (2007) The Many Dimensions of Poverty (Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan).
40. Lave, J. & Wenger, E. (1991) Situated Learning. Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Cambridge, MA, Cambridge University Press).
41. Lee, J. & Bowen, N. (2010) Parent involvement, cultural capital, and the achievement gap among elementary schools, American Educational Research Journal, 43, pp. 193-218.
42. Macedo, D. (1994) Literacies of Power. What Americans are not Allowed to Know (Boulder, CO, Paradigm).
43. Noguera, P. (2003) City Schools and the American Dream: reclaiming the promise of public education (New York, Teachers College Press).
44. Oakes, J. (1985) Keeping Track: how schools structure inequality (New York, Vail-Ballou Press).
45. Paratore, J. R., Hindin, A., Krol-Sinclair B. & Duran, P. (1999) Discourse between teachers and Latino parents during conferences based on home literacy portfolios, Education and Urban Society, 32, pp. 58-82.
46. Pérez Carreón, G., Drake, C. & Calabrese, A. (2005) The importance of presence: immigrant parents' school engagement experiences, American Educational Research Journal, 42, pp. 465-498.
47. Sánchez, M. (1999) La Verneda-Sant Martí: a school where people dare to dream, Harvard Educational Review, 69, pp. 320-335.
48. Sen, A. (2000) Development as Freedom (New York, Anchor Books).
49. Slavin, R. E. (1995) Cooperative learning and intergroup relations, in J. Banks & C. M. Banks (Eds) Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education (New York, Macmillan).
50. Sleeter, C. & Grant, C. A. (1988) Educators and parents: partners in student academic achievement, Multicultural Leader, 1, pp. 1-3.
51. Sliwka, A. & Istance, D. (2006) Parental and stakeholder 'voice' in schools and systems, European Journal of Education, 41, pp. 29-43.
52. Suárez-Orozco, M. & Qin-Hilliard, D. (2004) Globalization: culture and education in the millennium (Berkeley, CA, University of California Press and Ross Institute).
53. Tett, L. (2001) Parents as problems or parents as people? Parental involvement programmes, schools and adult educators, International Journal of Lifelong Education, 20, pp. 188-198.
54. Valenzuela, A. (1999) Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-Mexican youth and the politics of caring (Albany, State University of New York Press).
55. Vygotsky, L. (1978) Mind and Society: the development of higher mental processes (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press).
56. Wenger, E. (1998) Communities of Practice: learning, meaning, and identity (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press).
57. Willis, P. E. (1977) Learning to Labor: how working class kids get working class jobs (New York, Columbia University Press).