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CO-CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITY, SCHOOL, AND UNIVERSITY
PARTNERSHIPS FOR URBAN SCHOOL TRANSFORMATION
by
Laura Hernandez
_________________________________________________________________
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
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
August 2009
Copyright 2009 Laura Hernandez
Object Description
| Title | Co-constructing community, school, and university partnerships for urban school transformation |
| Author | Hernandez, Laura |
| Author email | lbhflores@yahoo.com; lhflores@mlapartnerschools.org |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-05-05 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-07-18 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Rousseau, Sylvia G. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Marsh, David D. Maddox, Anthony |
| Abstract | The primary purpose of this study is to examine the ways community, K-12 schools, and university partnerships can co-construct relationships within their first year of formation in order to contribute to reframing the nation’s educational agenda to improve the quality of education in urban schools. This study examines to what extent dialogic co-constructed partnerships that redistribute power among all partners can provide a cultural model for transforming urban schools to promote high academic performance for students of color in urban schools. This unique study seeks to examine the barriers, and the effective strategies to overcome them, in forming relationships of equal status among communities-K-12 schools-universities.; A partnership involving a specific research university, community members, and an urban high school in Los Angeles was chosen as the unit of analysis. This partnership was selected due to the rare opportunity of being able to observe a private, urban research university that has a mission to support the urban community; a K-12 school that has chosen, with the support of its teachers and parents, to go into a special unit of a school district focused on developing innovative concepts and structures; and two community-based organizations (CBOs), one of which has a long history of advocacy in the community where the school of the study is located. This organization and an advocacy, research CBO have worked to empower the community and have recently invited the university to join their efforts on behalf of K-12 transformation. |
| Keyword | partnerships; co-construction; school Reform; community; university; K-12 schools; leadership; dialogic; African-American; Latino; teacher education; cultural model; teacher quality |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Los Angeles |
| 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-m2375 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Hernandez, Laura |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Hernandez-3057 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume29/etd-Hernandez-3057.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | CO-CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITY, SCHOOL, AND UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS FOR URBAN SCHOOL TRANSFORMATION by Laura Hernandez _________________________________________________________________ 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 DOCTOR OF EDUCATION August 2009 Copyright 2009 Laura Hernandez |
