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ERIC Number: EJ1329851
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-0268-0939
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Reframing Community (Dis)engagement: The Discursive Connection between Undemocratic Policy Enactment, Minoritized Communities and Resistance
Wright, James S.; Kim, Taeyeon
Journal of Education Policy, v37 n2 p186-204 2022
While studies have examined leadership efforts to improve community engagement, less is known about how deeply rooted structured discourses, systems, and practices influence leadership actions and responses from communities. Deficit approaches to educational policy reform are pervasive in the most historically marginalized communities and school districts in the United States (US). Drawing on critical policy analysis, this study examines a disengaged school district's leadership of a Federal School Turnaround Policy from the perspectives of minoritized communities in an urban US school district. We analyzed deficit policy discourses, its enactment, and leadership practices using interview data and archived documents. This study found pathological discourses and deficit frames of minoritized communities, embedded in policy enactment, which directly led to leadership practices resulting in community resistance. In this way, we (re)frame disengaged school leadership; the resistance and the tension in response to pathological and deficit structures and ideologies as, at minimum, healthy attempts of redistributing justice and democracy. In addition, our findings highlight that discourses and enactment of turnaround school reforms were intertwined with undemocratic and racialized practices.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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