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CO-CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITY, SCHOOL, AND UNIVERSITY
PARTNERSHIPS FOR URBAN SCHOOL TRANSFORMATION
by
Jeffrey S. Kim
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 Jeffrey S. Kim
Object Description
| Title | Co-constructing community, school, and university partnerships for urban school transformation |
| Author | Kim, Jeffrey S. |
| Author email | kim_je@auhsd.us; jeffreysookim@hotmail.com |
| 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 | 2009-07-09 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Rousseau, Sylvia G. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Marsh, David Maddox, Anthony |
| Abstract | This study has examined the first year of an emerging community, school, and university partnership engaged in a process of co-constructing as a means of transforming an urban school. This partnership was selected because of the unique opportunity to observe a top-tier university with a track record and mission of working with the urban community surrounding it. The university has extended its support of the urban community by working with a low performing high school, which has chosen with the support of its teachers and parents to join a newly formed division of a large school district created to promote school innovation called iDesign. The third arm of this partnership is a pair of community organizations that have a history of empowering the African American community to exercise their civil rights by resisting acts of oppression against their community. All these organizations have come together on behalf of the transformation of an urban high school. This study has examined the first year of an emerging partnership in their efforts to transform a K-12 school that has experienced multiple years of decline in academic performance and community trust. Qualitative data, collected through 29 interviews, 10 observations, and 3 key documents were analyzed and organized in a code book to describe important processes and record key issues that emerged.; The findings from the interviews, observations, and examination of artifacts indicate that the partnership is engaged in co-construction incorporating dialogue and mutual learning. Barriers to the process of co-construction have included history, hierarchy, and absence of systems and structures for communication. The barriers are formidable but not impenetrable. In a short period of time, less than year, the partners are already at work to overcome these barriers. Strategies to overcome these barriers have also been identified including the presence of critical bridge persons. Critical bridge persons employing the process of co-construction have fostered a place for dialogue and have facilitated the creation of systems and structures for communication. The formation of the small learning communities, approval from a visiting WASC committee, and places of mutual learning and dialogue like the transition teams are evidence of the process of co-construction at work in spite of the barriers. |
| Keyword | co-construction; dialogue; dialogic; community; school; university; partnerships; urban school |
| 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-m2344 |
| Rights | Kim, Jeffrey S. |
| 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-Kim-3101 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume51/etd-Kim-3101.pdf |
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| Full text | CO-CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITY, SCHOOL, AND UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS FOR URBAN SCHOOL TRANSFORMATION by Jeffrey S. Kim 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 Jeffrey S. Kim |
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