HudCRES Report: Home schooling – a parents’ perspective in the advent of Covid-19

Russell, Lisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7690-3060 (2021) HudCRES Report: Home schooling – a parents’ perspective in the advent of Covid-19. Project Report. University of Huddersfield.

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Abstract

Project aims: The project aims to: • Identify how parents are managing home schooling in the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic • Explore what home schooling feels like from a parents’ perspective • Establish benefits and challenges that the home schooling experience may entail Methodology and Process: A critical participatory action research project was carried out by Dr Lisa Russell, Reader in Education at the University of Huddersfield. The study included 30 images depicting what home schooling felt like from the parent’s perspective; the development of a rainbow 2021 lockdown journey representation image with input from 16 parents; 10 image-elicitation interviews; focus group interviews; semi-structured, paired and individual zoom recorded interviews with 29 parents and 3 teachers located within one small village primary school from March 2020 to February 2021.