Review article

E-COMMUNICATION FROM BOARDING SCHOOLS TO PARENTS

Olga Dečman Dobrnjič ; The National Education Institute of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenija
Bojan Jeram ; Society SPIRSA, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract

We were interested in how e-competent the parents as key partners of schools are. The article discusses the role and the importance of information and communication technology (ICT) in school environment. We have found out that the process of informatization has become one of the most important activities of the modern world, a generator of social success and a means of integrating with the developed world. For organizations that do not follow the global development of computerization, there is no future. Currently in the Slovenian school system the project e-Education is in progress. Its primary goal is to accelerate the process of informatization of every educational institution, depending on its current status in management, educational and technical fields. The standards of an e-competent school, teacher (educator), headmaster and computer expert are being developed. We carried out a research in which we checked the e-competence of parents of secondary school students in boarding schools, and their e-expectations for the boarding school. The study involved 492 parents of students who live in large boarding schools in Slovenia and attend secondary school. The results indicate that parents use ICT and that they expect the boarding schools to have the possibility of collaboration with them via Internet. If boarding schools organize ICT related courses, the parents are prepared to participate.

Keywords

e-communication; secondary school students; parents; e- environment; boarding school; information and communication technology

Hrčak ID:

72605

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/72605

Publication date:

26.9.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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