Browsing by Subject "covid-19 virus"

The aim of my research was to find out the experiences of first-grader parents in the city of Helsinki about cooperation between the home and the school during the corona pandemic. The need for research arose from the surface scratching of the teaching of a teacher train-ing institution regarding home-school co-operation, even though the Basic Education Act obliges the school to co-operate with the home. I now wanted to find out how the global cri-sis has affected this cooperation. Previous research has shown that good collaboration is achieved when the teacher and parent get to know each other well and communication is straightforward. My research material was part of the Parents' Barometer 2021 survey commissioned by the Finnish Parents' Association and Förbundet Hem och Skolan i Finland. This survey focused on the experiences of parents of primary school children about the effects of the covid-19 vi-rus on home-school collaboration in the school year 2020–2021, on educational arrange-ments, and on how parents felt involved in everyday school life. My research material con-sists of the answers of parents of first graders in the city of Helsinki to two open-ended questions about co-operation between home and school. In my research, I used a data-driven approach to find meanings and entities in the data, as well as new insights into how first-grader parents perceived their children’s home-school collaboration during the corona pandemic. The material highlighted how multidimensional the cooperation between home and school is. Parents want to collaborate with the school and it is important for them to feel welcome in this collaboration. The orientation day and seeing the school facilities is important for future parents of schoolchildren. They want active communication and they think that the class teacher has the responsibility for this cooperation. Networking with other parents was also felt to be important, which has now been difficult during the corona pandemic. Joint celebra-tions and close meetings between the teacher and other parents were needed, which were now rare. Discussing the needs and desires for cooperation is key to building good coopera-tion between home and school.