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A Social Ecology

Community Basis

  • child and family development influence and are influenced by the individuals and systems that interact with families
  • engenders a sense of ownership among parents who become engaged in schools
  • child and parent functioning are enhanced when families can access resources and supports in their neighborhoods and when families feel a strong sense of community
  • opportunities for civic engagement and social networking creates social capital (resources that come from strong social relations between parents, children, and school staff)

Stand UP (Stand University for Parents), a research-based, ten-week family engagement course for parents of elementary school children.

Cultural Competence

Social Support

  • defined as the capacity to acknowledge the knowledge, skills, customs, values, beliefs, and practices that culturally diverse people consider their strengths
  • essential to working with children and families
  • Step 1: acknowledging that cultural differences between oneself and a child's parent may exist
  • Step 2: asking questions of oneself and a child's family to understand cultural beliefs and viewpoints about a situation
  • Step 3: adapting one's practice--as part of the resolution that the educator and the parent agree upon to address a conflict caused by cultural differences
  • the resources provided by individuals and groups, contributes to healthy development of children and their families
  • Schools can create opportunities for families to network and socialize with each other

The Exosystem

A Developmental Process

"That level of a developing person's ecology that connects that person's microsystems to other systems not containing that person."

Implications for Educators

The Exosystem:

Theoretical Perspectives

  • parents have the ability to grow and develop over time like their children
  • aims to promote parent development by empowering parents to act on their own behalf
  • enhances families' potential to create healthy home environments
  • schools can support and empower families by creating roles that support their talents and leadership potential
  • focus on family strengths
  • acknowledge social supports and services important to all families
  • promote community through social networks and civic engagement
  • respect the culture of families

Family Support: Premises

  • central premises are grounded in developmental, social, community-based, ecological, and cultural perspectives.
  • offer guidance for how professionals should interact with families

Jennifer Mills

EDL 787

source:

Weiss, H.B., Kreider, H., Lopez, M.E., Chatman, C.M. (2010). Preparing Educators to Engage Families: Case Studies Using an Ecological Systems Framework 2nd Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

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