Digitalization and Its Impact on Home-School Partnership and Parental Involvement

Session Type: Working Group Roundtable

Abstract

The objective of the roundtable is to facilitate for scientific exchange on the topic of how digitalization in schools is affecting home-school relationships and parental involvement in school. The aim is to discuss benefits and challenges for home-school partnerships in an era of digitalization, with a special focus on inclusion and exclusion processes following from this.
Four different presentations address challenges of exclusion and inclusion connected to the use of digital technologies in the area of home-school cooperation. A main aim of the discussions is to reflect upon how we can face the new challenges brought about by digital technologies in this area in order to ensure that existing inequalities are not reinforced and new gaps are not created.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Family, School, Community Partnerships

Chair

• Unn-Doris Karlsen Baeck, UIT The Arctic University of Norway

Papers

• Home-School Cooperation and the Digital Age: Finnish Teachers' Views - Satu Perälä-Littunen, University of Jyväskylä

• New Barriers in Home-School Relationship - Kristín Jónsdóttir, University of Iceland

• Digitalization of Home-School Relationship and Parental Involvement: How Does It Affect Questions of Inclusion and Exclusion? - Unn-Doris Karlsen Baeck, UIT The Arctic University of Norway

• Digitization in the Swedish School and Its Impact on the Home-School Relationship and Parental Involvement - Limin Gu, Umeå University