Understanding Embedded Programming: Voices from Four Schools

• In Event: Roundtable Session 110
  In Roundtable Session: Collaboration and School Partnerships to Improve Student Outcomes

Abstract

The implementation of a college access program by a public university serving approximately 500 Native American students in four schools in Northern Wisconsin provides the context for this study. This qualitative research study was designed to gain a deeper understanding of the processes and complexities of creating and sustaining embedded programs in school environments and focused on examining the successes and challenges of implementing the partnerships. Specifically, it explored the factors that worked and factors that deterred the smooth working of the partnerships in the school environment. The centrality of school culture/organizational habitus, the nature of communication and the skills associated with partnering in schools will be discussed in the paper through cross-site comparisons.

Author

• Devarati S. Syam, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee