IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/wop/nwuipr/96-8.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Parent Involvement in Shared Decision Making: Barriers to Democratic Participation in Urban Elementary Schools

Author

Listed:
  • John Diamond

Abstract

Parent involvement in shared decision making (SDM) is currently a popular concept in school restructuring literature and practice. In many SDM reforms, it is assumed that all adult stakeholders will participate democratically in decision making. This paper questions that assumption. It explores the process of participation on management teams in four urban elementary schools, identifying important barriers to democratic involvement on the part of parents. Findings suggest that tokenism and negative teacher and principal attitudes combine to inhibit democratic participation. Failure to recognize and overcome these barriers can lead to the symbolic empowerment of parents while leaving control over decision making in the hands of principals and certain school staff.

Suggested Citation

  • John Diamond, "undated". "Parent Involvement in Shared Decision Making: Barriers to Democratic Participation in Urban Elementary Schools," IPR working papers 96-8, Institute for Policy Resarch at Northwestern University.
    • Handle: RePEc:wop:nwuipr:96-8
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wop:nwuipr:96-8. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Thomas Krichel (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ipnwuus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.