Learning from the COVID-19 home-schooling experience: Listening to pupils, parents/carers and teachers

In Spring 2020, schools in many countries had to close in response to the COVID-19 virus pandemic and move to remote teaching. This paper explores the views of pupils, parents/carers and teachers of ‘home-school’ in one Norwegian municipality, gathered through parallel online surveys in April 2020 d...

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Published in:Improving schools 2020-11, Vol.23 (3), p.209-222
Main Authors: Bubb, Sara, Jones, Mari-Ana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer Mediated Communication
COVID-19
Creative Teaching
Distance Education
Elementary Secondary Education
Feedback (Response)
Foreign Countries
Home Schooling
Learning Experience
Pandemics
Parent Attitudes
Parent Participation
Personal Autonomy
Student Attitudes
Teacher Attitudes
Technology Uses in Education
Videoconferencing
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Summary:In Spring 2020, schools in many countries had to close in response to the COVID-19 virus pandemic and move to remote teaching. This paper explores the views of pupils, parents/carers and teachers of ‘home-school’ in one Norwegian municipality, gathered through parallel online surveys in April 2020 during the peak of the COVID-19 lockdown period. It finds that adaptation happened very quickly and that home-school was well received by pupils and parents. There was more creative learning, better progress, more useful feedback and greater student independence. School leaders reported that they wanted to implement changes based on the experience of remote learning enforced by the lockdown, so that the crisis has become an opportunity for grassroots innovation.
ISSN:1365-4802
1475-7583
DOI:10.1177/1365480220958797