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CO-CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITY, SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS FOR URBAN SCHOOL TRANSFORMATION
by
Jamila Najah Gillenwaters
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree of
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
December 2009
Copyright 2009 Jamila Najah Gillenwaters
Object Description
| Title | Co-constructing community, school, university partnerships for urban school transformation |
| Author | Gillenwaters, Jamila Najah |
| Author email | jngillen@msn.com; jng7555@lausd.net |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-06-01 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-10-06 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Rousseau, Sylvia |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Marsh, David Hollie, Sharroky |
| Abstract | University-school-community partnerships represent a collaborative model of urban educational reformation inclusive of all the organizations that impact urban education. Co-constructed relationships among communities, schools, and universities have the potential for redistributing hierarchical power, thereby enabling all partners to contribute to a new cultural model capable of transforming K-12 urban schools. This study examines the first year of formation of one co-constructed university-school-community partnership that attempted to transform the cultural model of one urban high school.; This study explores the potential of a partnership that employs co-construction, dialogue, and mutually shared learning as partnering processes intended to redistribute power among the members of its different stakeholder groups. This researcher identified history, hierarchy, and an absence of systems and structures within the partnership as barriers to the seamless partnering of the different organizations represented in this partnership. This researcher identifies history, space for dialogue, and a critical-bridge person as elements helpful to members of the partnership in their efforts to overcome these barriers. In addition, the researchers found that the co-construction processes employed by the partnership revealed emergent stages of a new cultural model within the urban high school. This new cultural model is characterized by emergent levels of distributed leadership, trust, and collaborative power relationships. |
| Keyword | co-constructed community-school-university partnerships; urban school transformation; partnerships; urban education; dialogic relationships; Freire's Banking Concept of Education; collaborative power relationships |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2648 |
| Rights | Gillenwaters, Jamila Najah |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Gillenwaters-3019 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume56/etd-Gillenwaters-3019.pdf |
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| Full text | CO-CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITY, SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS FOR URBAN SCHOOL TRANSFORMATION by Jamila Najah Gillenwaters A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF EDUCATION December 2009 Copyright 2009 Jamila Najah Gillenwaters |
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