In this course, I invite teacher candidates to re-conceptualize the schooling of children in the context of family and community and to learn how, as an educator, to step out of the school and into the community. I challenge them to consider the stance they take when they enter a community and to see themselves as learners in that place as much as teachers.
As they work alongside children, parents, families, educators and staff in various ways in community schools, I believe the teacher candidates develop a sound philosophy of parent engagement and learn how to translate this philosophy into practice. As they learn from this engagement what parent knowledge is and how to use parent knowledge as well as teacher knowledge in decisions regarding teaching and learning, they learn to position parents alongside them in meaningful ways rather than as aides or organizers who do support work for them.
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