UPDATE-INNOVATE

Advancing Quality Education through Parental Engagement: Updating frameworks and piloting innovative interventions for the digital age

 

Title of the Exploratory Project: Advancing Quality Education through Parental Engagement: Updating frameworks and piloting innovative interventions for the digital age.
Exploratory Project acronym: UPDATE-INNOVATE
Keywords: Quality Education, Parent Engagement, Mixed Methods, Social Labs
Exploratory Project Reference: 2023.13475.PEX
Scientific Domain: Social Sciences
Scientific Area: Educational Sciences
Subárea Científica: Education, General (including Training, Pedagogy, Didactics)
Beneficiary Institution: Fundação Minerva – Cultura – Ensino e Investigação Científica
Research Unit: Centro de Investigação em Psicologia para o Desenvolvimento (CIPD)
Principal Investigator of the Exploratory Project: PhD. Richard Anthony Inman
Members of the Exploratory Project Team:
  Name ORCID CIÊNCIA ID
Richard Anthony Inman 0000-0001-9384-3071 EA1C-9098-F920
Cátia Sofia Abreu Mendes 0000-0002-7037-2710 391B-62C6-0165
Carina Mota Santos 0000-0002-5787-701X 6C15-E736-7749
Start date of the Exploratory Project: February 20th, 2025
End date of the exploratory project: August 19th, 2026
Total Investment in the Exploratory Project: 48 147,50€ (forty-eight thousand one hundred and forty-seven euros and fifty cents)
Maximum total funding for the Exploratory Project: 48 147,50€ (forty-eight thousand one hundred and forty-seven euros and fifty cents)
Eligible application rate (Portuguese State Budget): 100%
Objectives of the Exploratory Project
To address the identified gaps and challenges, our project sets forth several broad objectives:
  1. From a comprehensive review of current literature, to formulate an updated holistic conceptual framework for parent engagement that considers parents subjective experiences, and that acknowledges the specific challenges encountered in the modern digital and multicultural education context in post-pandemic Portugal.
  2. To develop and validate a new assessment of parent engagement grounded in the proposed conceptual framework, and with items generated from qualitative interviews of parents and teachers.
  3. To identify existing practices and challenges to promoting parent education and co-create and test innovative pilot actions, alongside relevant stakeholders, in iterative cycles of innovation and reflections (social labs).
  4. To formulate and disseminate evidence-based, implementable best practice guidelines for schools, based on the project research findings and proposed conceptual framework.
Expected outcomes of the Exploratory Project:
  1. Contributions to the generation of new ideas, tools, methodologies or knowledge
  2. Contributions to the development of individuals and/or research teams
  3. Contributions to the research community and to broader society
Cartaz do Projeto:

This work is funded by national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia I. P., within the scope of the project 2023.13475.PEX