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Community-Driven Leadership: Mexican-Origin Farmworking Mothers Resisting Deficit Practices by a School Board in California
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Deeb-Sossa, Natalia; Manzo, Rosa – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2020
We examine how the community-driven leadership (CDL) of farmworker mothers challenged deficit practices of the local school board, which decided to close the school in the community. CDL is the ability of mothers to activate their community cultural wealth to mobilize their resources in search of better educational opportunities. The mothers…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Agricultural Laborers, Mother Attitudes, Leadership
Building a Sense of Community Belonging: Making Mobile Families Welcome in a Rural Australian School
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Henderson, Robyn – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2017
Seasonal farm workers play an important economic role through their contributions to annual harvests and the fact that they spend income in the community where they sojourn. However, research shows that farm workers and other temporary residents are often socially marginalised in rural communities and feel as though they are outsiders who do not…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Agricultural Laborers, Migrants, Foreign Countries