Creating School Cultures that Foster Family Engagement Across Diverse Cultural and Linguistic Backgrounds

Within the world of education, there is an ever-present drive to identify, research, and promote the best ways to elicit positive student outcomes. One aspect of schooling that research supports as having a positive impact on student learning and educational outcomes is family engagement. This exten...

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Huvudupphovsman: Beckett, Amy
Materialtyp: Online
Språk:eng
Publicerad: Oscar Rennebohm Library 2022
Länkar:http://digitalcollections.edgewood.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16315coll4/id/54
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Sammanfattning:Within the world of education, there is an ever-present drive to identify, research, and promote the best ways to elicit positive student outcomes. One aspect of schooling that research supports as having a positive impact on student learning and educational outcomes is family engagement. This extended literature review aims to answer the question: What are best practices for creating school cultures that foster family engagement across diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds? In service of this question, this review explores the rich dialogue surrounding the impacts, definitions, misconceptions, barriers, and inclusive understandings associated with family engagement. Although many researchers over the past fifteen years have recommended important shifts in terminology and understandings surrounding family engagement, current literature does not consistently reflect this shift, which may serve to undermine best practices for family engagement across culturally and linguistically diverse populations. However, the academic literature does include extensive discussion around family engagement practices that purport to serve students and families of all cultural and linguistic backgrounds. At the conclusion of this extended literature review, a distillation of best practices for fostering family engagement is presented, inspired by the rich academic discourse on this subject matter.