The Tenuous Role of Institutional Agents
Parent Liaisons as Cultural Brokers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9729654 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Martinez-Cosio (The University of Texas at Arlington), Maria Martinez‐cosio (0000-0003-0136-7229, The University of Texas at Arlington, corresponding author), Rosario Martinez Iannacone (Claremont Graduate University and San Diego State University) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 349-369 |
| Publication date | 2007-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Education and Urban Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1245 • E-ISSN: 1552-3535 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0013124506298165 |
| OpenAlex | W2079678471 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article reports on the contradictory role of parent involvement coordinators charged with increasing participation of low-income immigrant parents. This urban ethnographic study investigates the success of one program that engages Latino, Asian, and African American parents in the governance of their Southern California urban elementary school. It illustrates the dilemmas and tensions that arise as institutional agents serve as cultural brokers, as a bridge between the dominant culture and parents' diverse cultures while also serving as institutional agents. The authors use theories of social and cultural capital to examine the strategies used by a school-based cultural broker to provide bridging social capital to underserved agents seeking an equal role in policy making at their school. They provide examples of three tensions that block bridging social capital, including tension over resources, power sharing, and institutional decision making
Bridging (networking · Corporate governance · Cultural capital · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Immigration · Political science · Power structure · Public relations · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Parental Involvement in Education · School Choice and Performance
Latino School Concentration and Academic Performance among Latino Children
Transforming language brokering policies at school
Toward language justice
Organisational sensemaking and cultural brokering in U.S. schools
A systematic review of interventions promoting social inclusion of immigrant and ethnic minority preschool children
The New Educational Pastorate
Belonging and Its Barriers
Different ways to broker
(Re)conceptualizing family-school partnerships with and for culturally and linguistically diverse families
Love’s labor lost
Family school partnership discourse
Bureaucratic Dysfunctions in the Education of Latino Immigrant Youth
Can parents do it all? Changes in parent involvement from 1997 to 2009 among Head Start families
Governing through trust
Cultural relevance as program‐to‐community alignment
Parental Involvement and the Black–White Discipline Gap
Creating Taxonomies to Improve School–Home Connections With Families of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners
Spanish Teachers as Impromptu Translators and Liaisons in New Latino Communities
Reinforcing Deficit, Journeying Toward Equity
Teacher-Child Racial/Ethnic Match and Parental Engagement With Head Start
Literacy mediators, scribes or brokers
Theoretical, empirical, and practice literature on language brokering
Educational Cultural Brokers and the School Adaptation of Refugee Children and Families
Between Indian and white worlds
Pushing Boundaries
A Social Capital Framework for Understanding the Socialization of Racial Minority Children and Youths
Factions, Friends and Feasts
Social Capital
Culture and Power
Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth
Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture
Involving Parents in the Schools
Parent‐teacher participation in the context of school governance
Embeddedness and Immigration
Funds of knowledge for teaching
Cultural Capital and School Success
Reproduction in education, society, and culture
The Cultural Broker Concept in Bicultural Education
Moments of Social Inclusion and Exclusion Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Family-School Relationships
Social Capital and the Reproduction of Inequality
Cultural Capital
Fictive Kin as Social Capital in New Immigrant Communities
Can Taste Illumine Class? Cultural Knowledge Forms of Inequality
Knowledge and class
Cultural capital in educational research
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,35 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |