„Felhívom, ha bajom van…” Informális kapcsolatok a szülők iskolához való viszonyulásában rurális környezetben
“I’ll Call if I Have a Problem...”: Informal Relationships in Parents’ Attitudes towards School in the Rural Environment

Summary/Abstract: An important objective of the education system and educational institutions is to improve the effectiveness of cooperation with parents. The COVID-19 pandemic situation has highlighted the problems of cooperation with parents and has accelerated the change in the forms of cooperation. This paper addresses the question of how rural society is responding to this challenge. What does it accept, support, or negate among the forms of cooperation that have been established and institutionalised in the past? How does it relate to new and as of yet uninstitutionalised possibilities and forms of cooperation? What new forms of cooperation does it initiate or support? The field of the analysis is the region of Cașin, Harghita County, Romania. Through personal participatory fieldwork, social history analysis, questionnaire data collection, and a series of interviews, I have been investigating the practice of parental involvement over the last four years, including changes in the relationship between parents and teachers. The study attempts to illustrate the patterns of formal and informal relationships that emerge and operate in rural settings, as interpreted by parents.

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