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Sense Of Belonging For Black Families At Their Child's School: Factors That Promote, Inhibit, And Oppress., Jill Handley
Sense Of Belonging For Black Families At Their Child's School: Factors That Promote, Inhibit, And Oppress., Jill Handley
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The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate how the perceptions about family engagement structures influence the sense of belonging for Black families at their child’s school. Qualitative participatory action research (PAR) design was used for this study and purposeful homogenous sampling (Creswell, 2012) was used to select participants. The participants for this study were Black parents/guardians of students in grades K-12 in Jefferson County, Kentucky. This qualitative study used the World Café method to collect multiple data points that were triangulated to contribute to the trustworthiness of the study (Glesne, 2006). Epstein’s Model of Overlapping Spheres and Bourdieu’s …