Cristina Santamaría Graff
Biographic Data
| ID | 1584150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristina Santamaría Graff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristina Santamaría |
| FAMILY NAME | Graff |
| SIGNATURE | GRAFF C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4628-8949 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Families as School Citizens
Families have been recognized a key element of schools, and models have been developed to aid schools in involving them. Yet, families are not monolithic, and more needs to be understood about how different families position themselves relative to formal schooling. In this article, we explore this phenomenon by analyzing family and educator responses to an open-ended survey collected in a suburban school district. To make sense of these family’s …
Co-investigation and co-education in 'family as faculty' approaches
Family as Faculty (FAF) approaches originate from family-centered healthcare models and have been adapted in special education teacher education programs to positively influence and impact pre-service special education teachersâ€TM dispositional understandings of working and collaborating with parents/families. However, the majority of research centered on these approaches fails to address issues of equity, specifically uneven power relationships…
An equity framework for family, community, and school partnerships
Equity has often been identified as a foundational concept for truly inclusive and reciprocal partnerships among schools, families, and communities. Equity can be difficult for schools to achieve without cultivating new paradigms for interacting with historically marginalized students, families, and communities. In order to bridge the ideal of equity with radical, scalable, and sustainable institutional change, we developed an equity framework fo…
Build That Wall!’
The 2016 presidential campaign and the election of Donald Trump has amplified divisive anti-immigrant sentiment and has further positioned ‘Mexicans as enemy.’ Trump’s ‘Build That Wall!’ declarative has stoked nativist ire through manufactured narratives that rarely, if ever, consider the United States government’s role in the increase of undocumented immigrants residing in our country. In this essay, the author connects the current administratio…
Latina Resilience in Higher Education
Many Latina students overcome multiple obstacles to earn university degrees. Five married Latina women with children and seasonal farmworker backgrounds are the focus of this study which is analyzed through resiliency theory to understand factors contributing to their academic resilience. Variables connected to academic success are explored and include supportive familial networks, self-efficacy, and participants’ desires to instill the value of …
An equity framework for family, community, and school partnerships
Equity has often been identified as a foundational concept for truly inclusive and reciprocal partnerships among schools, families, and communities. Equity can be difficult for schools to achieve without cultivating new paradigms for interacting with historically marginalized students, families, and communities. In order to bridge the ideal of equity with radical, scalable, and sustainable institutional change, we developed an equity framework fo…
Build That Wall!’
The 2016 presidential campaign and the election of Donald Trump has amplified divisive anti-immigrant sentiment and has further positioned ‘Mexicans as enemy.’ Trump’s ‘Build That Wall!’ declarative has stoked nativist ire through manufactured narratives that rarely, if ever, consider the United States government’s role in the increase of undocumented immigrants residing in our country. In this essay, the author connects the current administratio…
Latina Resilience in Higher Education
Many Latina students overcome multiple obstacles to earn university degrees. Five married Latina women with children and seasonal farmworker backgrounds are the focus of this study which is analyzed through resiliency theory to understand factors contributing to their academic resilience. Variables connected to academic success are explored and include supportive familial networks, self-efficacy, and participants’ desires to instill the value of …
Latina Resilience in Higher Education
Many Latina students overcome multiple obstacles to earn university degrees. Five married Latina women with children and seasonal farmworker backgrounds are the focus of this study which is analyzed through resiliency theory to understand factors contributing to their academic resilience. Variables connected to academic success are explored and include supportive familial networks, self-efficacy, and participants’ desires to instill the value of …
Build That Wall!’
The 2016 presidential campaign and the election of Donald Trump has amplified divisive anti-immigrant sentiment and has further positioned ‘Mexicans as enemy.’ Trump’s ‘Build That Wall!’ declarative has stoked nativist ire through manufactured narratives that rarely, if ever, consider the United States government’s role in the increase of undocumented immigrants residing in our country. In this essay, the author connects the current administratio…
Co-investigation and co-education in 'family as faculty' approaches
Family as Faculty (FAF) approaches originate from family-centered healthcare models and have been adapted in special education teacher education programs to positively influence and impact pre-service special education teachersâ€TM dispositional understandings of working and collaborating with parents/families. However, the majority of research centered on these approaches fails to address issues of equity, specifically uneven power relationships…
An equity framework for family, community, and school partnerships
Equity has often been identified as a foundational concept for truly inclusive and reciprocal partnerships among schools, families, and communities. Equity can be difficult for schools to achieve without cultivating new paradigms for interacting with historically marginalized students, families, and communities. In order to bridge the ideal of equity with radical, scalable, and sustainable institutional change, we developed an equity framework fo…
Families as School Citizens
Families have been recognized a key element of schools, and models have been developed to aid schools in involving them. Yet, families are not monolithic, and more needs to be understood about how different families position themselves relative to formal schooling. In this article, we explore this phenomenon by analyzing family and educator responses to an open-ended survey collected in a suburban school district. To make sense of these family’s …
Sociology (4 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Equity (law (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)