Beyond the School Walls: Civic Capacity in Micropolitian Partnerships

• In Event: Community School Partnerships

Abstract

Research suggests that the time students spend outside of school, and the communities in which they spend it, impact academic success. School-community partnerships serve as an intervention for addressing the conditions faced by students and families outside of schools and community development, especially in rural places. This qualitative cross-case study responds for calls to better understand school-community partnerships using collective impact outside of urban places. It identifies collective impact as a container for civic capacity development for community-wide change to support youth and community development through the mobilization of stakeholders, the development of collective action frames, and youth leadership in out-of-school programs; however it also identifies the importance of capacity and resource as precursors.

Author

• Sarah J Zuckerman, University of Nebraska - Lincoln