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Partnership Between Iraqi Families With Refugee Backgrounds And School Professionals, Ashraf Alamatouri
Partnership Between Iraqi Families With Refugee Backgrounds And School Professionals, Ashraf Alamatouri
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Research shows that partnerships between families and school professionals can be an important factor in student educational outcomes and that such partnerships exist less for families with refugee backgrounds than for native-born Americans. There are gaps in the literature around linguistic factors and advocacy styles that could influence the relationship between families with refugee backgrounds and school professionals, especially for Arabic speakers. The purpose of this study was to deeply analyze one Iraqi family’s interactions with school professionals in the U.S. to answer the following research question: What linguistic factors and advocacy behaviors facilitate and impede the formation of a …
Promoting Family Professional Partnerships Among Refugee Families Through Community-Based Participatory Action Research, Gabriel T. Mcgann
Promoting Family Professional Partnerships Among Refugee Families Through Community-Based Participatory Action Research, Gabriel T. Mcgann
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
The purpose of this Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) study was to work with local stakeholders involved in the RAFT (Relationships Among Families and Teachers) Project pilot study (Haines & Reyes, 2022a) to identify the constructs necessary to understand the impacts of RAFT implementation and build a tool to assess those constructs. The Participatory Action Research Team (PART) involved in this study included school administrators, Multilingual (ML) teachers, classroom teachers, home-school liaisons, and families. The PART participated in three focus groups and eight cognitive interviews to develop an understanding of the goals of RAFT implementation and design a survey to …