Contents (Tentative)
Series Foreword?James A. Banks
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Situating ?What Counts? for Families in Education
Beyond Critique to Fostering Equitable Collaborations
Showing Up in the Work
A Few Notes on Language
Organization of the Book
Equitable Collaborations in Reaching for Transformation
1.?Fuzzy Families, Prickly Racism: Framing the Problem Space
Start with Warm Fuzzies: Families Matter
Enter the Cold Pricklies: Racial Inequities from Parent Involvement to Family Engagement
Conclusions: From Involvement and Engagement Toward Equitable Collaboration
2.?New Rules of Engagement: From Conventional Partnerships to Equitable Collaborations
Why Equitable Collaborations? Critical Race Theory, Community Organizing, and Sociocultural Learning
Toward Equitable Collaborations: Case Study of a ?New Relationship?
A Changing Community: Traditional Approaches, Deficit Conceptions
?We Had to Take Action?: New Roles for Parents in the Formation of the Coalition
A Collaboration Emerges: Shared Responsibility for Systemic Change GOALS
Capacity- and Relationship-Building STRATEGIES for Systems Change
?Navigating Insecure Ground?: Change Processes at the End of the Honeymoon
Case Discussion: A ?New Relationship?
Conclusions
3.?Nondominant Families on Their Own Terms: Lived Theories of Educational Injustice
Introduction
Nondominant Family Insights as Lived Theories of Injustice
?They Just Want to Pass the Kids?: Systemic Dynamics of Accountability Policy and Equitable Learning
?Are You Speaking for Yourself or for All the Parents??: Power and Engagement at the School Level
Listening to Respond: Inequities in the Moment at the Individual Level
Conclusions
4.?Systemic Collaborations: Multiorganizational Educational Equity Initiatives
Cross-Sector Collaborations: New Policy Contexts for Engagement
New Context, Familiar Territory: Contextualizing Education Beyond the School Walls
Cross-Sector ?Collabetition?: Reinforcing Interorganizational Inequities
Cultural Brokering as Bridging
Emerging Approaches to Equitable Cutural Brokering
Conclusions
5.?Collaborating in Organizational Improvement: Data Inquiry with Families, Communities, and Educators
Conceptualizing Relationships Between Families and Data
A Model of Data Inquiry for Equitable Collaboration
Questioning Phase
Engaging Phase
Making Sense Phase
Tensions and Opportunities in Strategizing and Moving to Action
Conclusions
6.?Rewriting Moment-to-Moment Interactions: Families as Co-designers
Racialized Institutional Scripts in Family?Teacher Relations
Changing Racialized Institutional Scripts
Putting Principles into Practice in Participatory Design-based Research
Co-design Practices as Rewriting Racialized Institutional Scripts
Repositioning Racial and Cultural Differences
Conclusions
7.?Co-designing Justice and Well-Being with/in Systems and Conclusions
A Call to Reimagine Family and Community Engagement
District Leaders and Co-design
My Teaching Challenge: Proleptic Politic as Pedagogy
Dilemmas as Systemic Tensions
Co-design as ?Solidarity-Dreaming?
On Solidarities
Conclusions (and New Openings)
Appendix A: Initial Partnership Assessment Tool
Appendix B: Final Lesson Topics and Design Principles
Notes
References
Index
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