School-community engagement for school resource acquisition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda M. S. Norman
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
School Community ◽  
Resource Acquisition ◽  
School Resource

What does it mean to be an ‘engaged university’? Reflections from a university and school-community engagement project

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avivit M Cherrington ◽  
Eileen Scheckle ◽  
Mathabo Khau ◽  
Naydene De Lange ◽  
Andre Du Plessis
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
South African ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
School Community ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Collaborative Intervention ◽  
Collaborative Engagement ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
The University

This article seeks to address what it means to be an ‘engaged’ university and, in so doing, to contribute to current discourses – in a fast growing field – about how to collaborate with communities for meaningful social transformation. As a group of researchers from the faculty of education in a South African university, we share our thinking and the theoretical notions that underpinned our planning and executing of a 3-year engagement with a rural secondary school. In asking ‘How might dialogic engagement of the university community and the community the university serves, enable agency towards active citizenship in the context of education?’, a collaborative engagement project between and within a school-community and the university was initiated. In this conceptual article, we unpack and discuss a critical university and school-community engagement with, and interpretation of, three key concepts that underpinned it: dialogic engagement, community and active citizenship. We conclude with a discussion on how we put these three key elements into practice. It is therefore argued that to be truly engaged requires constant dialogue, reflection, and the intentionality and commitment of all parties towards collaboration that is aimed at promoting mutual learning through socially just processes. Such university and school-community engagement is key in addressing complex social issues requiring collaborative intervention to enable social transformation.

La Cosecha/The Harvest: Sustainable Models of School-Community Engagement at a Bilingual Program

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariana Mangual Figueroa ◽  
Patricia Baquedano-López ◽  
Beatriz Leyva-Cutler
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
School Community ◽  
Bilingual Program

Developing An Assessment of Community Equity Literacy: An Exploratory Study of Aspiring School Principals

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terrance L. Green ◽  
Melissa A. Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
School Community ◽  
Leadership Teams ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Pilot Survey ◽  
Knowledge And Practice

Principals play a critical role in school-community engagement, yet there are a dearth of instruments to measure principals’ knowledge and practice in this area. This study therefore describes the research base of community equity literacy and explains why it is essential to the work of school principals and their leadership teams. It also examines the results of a pilot survey of an experienced group of aspiring school principals as a way to further develop an instrument to assess educational leaders’ community equity literacy. This article concludes with implications for leader preparation and future research.

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