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Critical Perspectives on Education Policy and Schools, Families, and Communities (Paperback)
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Critical Perspectives on Education Policy and Schools, Families, and Communities (Paperback)
Series: Family School Community Partnership Issues
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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 scholars of family, school, and community
partnerships 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 policy to 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 can be 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.
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