Family and Community Engagement as Disruptive Forces for Change
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 883
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will focus on family and community engagement as forces that can disrupt systems—schools, community, and society—for the purposes of increasing equity across society. While the importance of family and, increasingly, community engagement in learning is well known, these still resonate in the literature as related to compliance and assimilation rather than real change in schools and systems of schooling.
This Special Issue will focus on a rarely examined but powerful aspect of family and community engagement in learning. While schooling, and at least some forms and instances of learning as a result, have been seen as means and sites of social reproduction, this need not always be the case. The papers in this Special Issue will examine, propose, and theorise family and community engagement as forces that are disruptive in entrenched power relationships.
Papers should examine family and community engagement in learning processes (in and out of school) that are disruptive forces for beneficial change. Empirical work, as well as theory-based work (which is critically grounded in the extant literature), is welcomed.
Prof. Dr. Janet Goodall
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- parent engagement
- family engagement
- community engagement
- disruptive change
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