Professor Yoko Yamamoto has been awarded a Community-Based Learning and Research (CBLR) Course Mini-Grant in support of her Fall 2022 undergraduate course, EDUC 1190: Family Engagement in Education. Students in this course will examine theories and research findings related to family engagement in education drawing from various social science studies. The course offers an in-depth look at focal topics across diverse groups, such as parental beliefs and practices, family processes in sociocultural cotexts, immigrant families, and elements and programs that promote family-school partnerships.
As a community-based course, students will participate in fieldwork and engagement in the community. Professor Yamamoto will use the award to bring community partners from Providence Promise and Excel Academy RI to campus to speak to the class, including Urban Education Policy program alums Sheila Bautista A.M.'22 and Madalyn Ciampi A.M.'17.