Conocimiento Utilidad: Utility-Based Knowledge as Counterstory for 21st-Century Colonized Family Engagement Models

• In Event: Latin@ Families, Parent Engagement, and Sacrificios

Abstract

In conscious and subconscious ways institutions such as schools enact a position of power and run the potential of treating Latino/a families in ways that are reflective of colonized practices. We must redefine and reconstruct traditional notions of parental involvement that perpetuate these notions.

Authors

• Margarita Machado-Casas, The University of Texas - San Antonio

• Katherine Espinoza, The University of Texas

• Alpha A Martinez-Suarez, The University of Texas - San Antonio

• Miguel Angel Fonseca, San Antonio Independent School District

• Cindy Peña, Texas State University - San Marcos

• Haetham Abdul-Razaq, University of Texas San Antonio