Pathways to Community Engagement in Education

Catherine M. Hands is Professor of Education Administration and Leadership at Brock University, Canada. She has worked with Canadian and American school districts, teachers' unions, and the Ontario Ministry of Education as a researcher and consultant. Her research interests include school-community relations, family involvement in schooling, educational leadership, values and ethics in education, social justice, professional learning communities, and education reform.

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Pathways to Community Engagement in Education: School-Community Collaboration in Diverse, Urban Neighbourhoods.- Chapter 2: Interpreting the Map and Navigating to Destinations: Using School-Community Policy to Influence Practice.- Chapter 3: Sustainable Partnerships: The Ecology of Community Engagement Initiatives The Ecology of Collaboration.- Chapter 4: The Social Contexts and Permeable Borders That Influence Partnerships Intertwined Open Systems: A Depiction of School-Community Interaction.- Chapter 5: Networks: The Importance of Who and What You Know Networks and Social Capital: Linking Schools and Communities.- Chapter 6: Building Bridges and Crossing Boundaries Social Networks and Boundary Spanners.- Chapter 7: Facilitating or Frustrating Efforts to Collaborate Social Contexts that Facilitate or Frustrate Collaborative Efforts.- Chapter 8: Collaboration to Support Vulnerable Populations Collaboration as a Gateway to Social Capital.- Chapter 9: Thriving and Not Just Surviving: Support for Mental Health in a Networked Community.- Chapter 10: Creating Schools as Community Hubs Through Collaboration A School-Community Relations Continuum.