The Tenuous Role of Institutional Agents: Parent Liaisons as Cultural Brokers

Autor/inn/en	Martinez-Cosio, Maria; Iannacone, Rosario Martinez
Titel	The Tenuous Role of Institutional Agents: Parent Liaisons as Cultural Brokers
Quelle	In: Education and Urban Society, 39 (2007) 3, S.349-369 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1245
DOI	10.1177/0013124506298165
Schlagwörter	Parent Role; Parent Participation; Parent School Relationship; Ethnography; Social Capital; Hispanic Americans; Asian Americans; African Americans; Parents; Elementary Schools; Urban Schools; Elementary Education; Interviews; Academic Achievement; Immigrants; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Parental role; Elternrolle; Elternmitwirkung; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Ethnografie; Sozialkapital; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Afroamerikaner; Eltern; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Elementarunterricht; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Schulleistung; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Kalifornien
Abstract	This article reports on the contradictory role of parent involvement coordinators charged with increasing participation of low-income immigrant parents. This urban ethnographic study investigates the success of one program that engages Latino, Asian, and African American parents in the governance of their Southern California urban elementary school. It illustrates the dilemmas and tensions that arise as institutional agents serve as cultural brokers, as a bridge between the dominant culture and parents' diverse cultures while also serving as institutional agents. The authors use theories of social and cultural capital to examine the strategies used by a school-based cultural broker to provide bridging social capital to underserved agents seeking an equal role in policy making at their school. They provide examples of three tensions that block bridging social capital, including tension over resources, power sharing, and institutional decision making. (Contains 2 notes.) (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10