Parental co-production in public higher education during the COVID-19 crisis: A mixed methods study
Anna Bagirova et al.
What the paper says
The COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented level of disruption in education. One of the consequences of this disruption was that it made parents a key part of the educational delivery of public education. This research introduces the concept of parental co-production in the delivery of public higher education. We use a mixed-methods design to analyse data from around the crisis period of the COVID-19 pandemic, combining digital ethnography with two research surveys. The results provide a vivid portrait of the contentious deliberations surrounding parental co-production and includes the willingness of parents to co-produce public higher education, the reasons underpinning their decision to co-produce, the specific actions taken to co-produce, and their intentions to co-produce in the future. Our results suggest that parents can become important stakeholders in strengthening the relationship between industry and academia, and in improving the relevance of university degrees. Based on these findings, we provide a conceptual delineation of the potential differences between parental co-production in public schools and parental coproduction in public higher education, and outline suggestions for future research on the topic.
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Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.32 × 0.4 = 0.13 |
| M · momentum | 0.57 × 0.15 = 0.09 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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