Youth as a Bridge between Home and School: Comparing Student Voice and Parent Involvement as Strategies for Change

Autor/in	Mitra, Dana L.
Titel	Youth as a Bridge between Home and School: Comparing Student Voice and Parent Involvement as Strategies for Change
Quelle	In: Education and Urban Society, 38 (2006) 4, S.455-480 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1245
DOI	10.1177/0013124506287911
Schlagwörter	Parent Participation; High Schools; Mexican Americans; Low Income Groups; Student Participation; Parent School Relationship; Family School Relationship; Academic Achievement; Translation; Tutorial Programs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elternmitwirkung; High school; Oberschule; Hispanoamerikaner; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Schulleistung; Tutorial programmes; Förderprogramm; Lernprogramm; Tutorensystem
Abstract	This article analyzes efforts to increase parent involvement and student voice among Mexican American families who are low income at a large comprehensive high school. Although the parent-involvement effort ultimately failed, the students developed their own initiatives to help support Latino youth and their families, including the development of a bilingual tutoring program and a translation program for families needing to communicate with the school. The experiences in this article suggest that, rather than focusing solely on parent-involvement strategies, schools also increase student voice as a way to bridge the gap between families and the school and to improve student outcomes. (Contains 10 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10