ERIC Number: EJ1360478
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 14
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Community-Centered School Leadership: Radical Care and "Aperturas" during COVID-19
Alvarez Gutiérrez, Leticia; Kim, Taeyeon; Partola, Sonny; Kuttner, Paul J.; Niang, Amadou; Yanagui, Alma; Hernández, Laura; López, Gerardo R.; Mayer-Glenn, Jennifer
AERA Open, v8 n1 Jan-Dec 2022
We share school leaders' perspectives on Zoom videos concerning the needs of immigrant and refugee families in Title I schools. In these videos, participants crafted and shared personal narratives about their leadership experiences during the COVID-19 era of education. Rooted in participatory design research methods, the process of designing these videos were both a research project and an intervention to assist families and school leaders to better understand each other. We present a close analysis of administrators' perspectives and describe how our codesigned video methodology enabled participants to coconstruct new meanings of school-community relationships during the pandemic through a radical care framework. We conceptualize these reimaginings as aperturas--cracks in the dominant family engagement paradigm that allow us to collectively work towards transformative ends which we term community-centered school leadership. We conclude the article with recommendations for how both school leadership and research can approach and reimagine family engagement post-pandemic.
Descriptors: Leadership, Caring, COVID-19, Pandemics, Administrator Attitudes, Immigrants, Refugees, Family Needs, Videoconferencing, School Community Relationship, Family School Relationship, Equal Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Principals, Assistant Principals
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Utah
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Data File: URL: https://doi-org.bibliotheek.ehb.be/10.3886/E164001V1
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