“Won’t be enough to invite parents to school events”: Results of a systematic literature review of parental volunteering

Zsófia Kocsis; Valéria Markos; Elek Fazekas; Zsuzsanna Hajnalka Fényes; Gabriella Pusztai

doi:10.6092/issn.1970-2221/20185

Authors

Zsófia Kocsis University of Debrecen, MTA-DE-Parent-Teachers Cooperation Research Group

Zsófia Kocsis is an assistant lecturer at the Institute of Education and Cultural Sciences at the University of Debrecen, an active member of the CHERD-Hungary, and a research coordinator of MTA-DE-Parent-Teacher Cooperation Research Group. Her research is focus on student employment, furthermore the effect of student work for academic performance. She is focusing on the relationship between school and family concerning children and their parent’s volunteer work. She examines how the relationship with their parents affects work orientation and a work ethic. She won three times a recipient of the New National Excellence Program Scholarship. She won Szent-Györgyi Young Investigator Award. Recent publications: “The role of student employment in persistence and efficiency in STEM higher education” (International Journal of Education in Mathematics Science and Technology 2022), “Combining and Balancing Work and Study on the Eastern Border of Europe” (Social Sciences 2019).
Valéria Markos University of Debrecen, MTA-DE-Parent-Teachers Cooperation Research Group

Valéria Markosis a lecturer at the Doctoral Program in Education and Cultural Sciences of the Doctoral School of Human Sciences at the University of Debrecen, and the editor of the Book Review section of HERJ, and an active member of the CHERD-Hungary. The focus of her research is the investigation of voluntary work and civic activity of higher education students. Among recent releases written in English: “The effect of school community service on volunteering and its motives” (Education Citizenship and Social Justice 2022) and “The effect of volunteering and voluntary group membership on student’s persistence. (HELIYON 2021).
Elek Fazekas University of Debrecen, MTA-DE-Parent-Teachers Cooperation Research Group

Elek Fazekas is an assistant lecturer at the Gáspár Károli University of the Reformed Church of Hungary and Phd student in the Institute of Education and Cultural Sciences at the University of Debrecen, an active member of the CHERD-Hungary research group.
Zsuzsanna Hajnalka Fényes University of Debrecen, MTA-DE-Parent-Teachers Cooperation Research Group

Zsuzsanna Hajnalka Fényes is an associate professor in University of Debrecen at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy. She is a lecturer and supervisor in the Doctoral School of Human Sciences (University of Debrecen) in Doctoral Program of Education and Cultural Sciences. She graduated as economist-sociologist in 1991 at Budapest, had her PhD degree in Sociology in 2001, and made her habilitation in Education science in 2010. Her research fields: 1. the social mobility of HE students; 2. differences between males and females in the education system; 3. volunteering and paid work of students; 4. applications of human capital theory; 5. quantitative research methodology (regression analysis, multilevel models).
Gabriella Pusztai University of Debrecen, MTA-DE-Parent-Teachers Cooperation Research Group

Gabriella Pusztai is the professor of sociology of education at the Institute of Educational and Cultural Studies at the University of Debrecen, the director of CHERD-Hungary, and the leader of the Doctoral School on Human Sciences in Debrecen. She is the leader of MTA-DE-Parent-Teacher Cooperation Research Group. Her main research interests relate to the representation of cultural and religious groups in education. She is a member of the editorial board of Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe, and the chief editor of Central European Journal of Education Research. One of her books was published in HERP series of Peter Lang (Pathways to success in higher education, 2015). Recent publications: Sociology of education: Theories, communities, contexts (book, 2022), “How Can Social Capital Become a Facilitator of Inclusion?" (Education Sciences 2023).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1970-2221/20185

Keywords:

parental involvement, parental volunteering in school, parent volunteer program, education

Abstract

Investigating parental involvement has come to the focus of education studies in the past decade as research on family engagement has revealed its positive impact on children’s academic achievement. Parental volunteering at school may be an essential form of parental involvement, there is no evidence-based knowledge of its impact, nor has a systematic review been published on the subject yet. This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between parental volunteering and parental involvement through 29 studies published between 2004 and 2021. The studies apply a wide variety of research methodology and define parental volunteering either as an effective means of parental involvement or as an outcome of interventions and mentoring programmes. The results suggest that initiatives to involve parents become less common as educational level increases.

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