Our researchers also participated in the ECER 2024 conference organized this year in Cyprus. Our colleagues presented our results related to parental involvement. Congratulations to the speakers!
Members of our research group also represented us at the ESA conference held in Porto, Portugal.
At the CAMPUS festival, interested parties can try the fun games and the board games we have designed.
Regina Sávai-Átyin gave two lectures at the P.PIC'24 - Porto Pedagogical Innovation Conference held in Porto. At the conference, ideas were exchanged on various pedagogical innovation paths, higher education challenges, and their novel solutions.
Congratulations on the performance!
In the latest publication of ELNE Journals (https://www.elnenetwork.org/en/elne-journals), you can read about the results of the MTA research group.
- Cintia Csók, Gabriella Pusztai, Zsófia Vincze: Transforming Schools into Learning Communities: Building a Partnership between Educational Partners
- Ágnes Hornyák: The importance of teacher motivational factors in the development of educational innovations and retention in the teaching profession
A special issue on the topic of parental involvement was published in Horizonty Journal.
Vol. 23 No. 66 (2024): School and family - collaboration, partnership, engagement.
Congratulations to our Authors!
Congratulations to our researchers who participated in the Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE) Spring 2024 conference in Bergamo last week.
Our research group presented excellent presentations at the HUCER 2024 conference.
On 05.09.2024, our students majoring in special education participated in the testing of the board game created by the MTA-DE-PARTNERS board game development working group. The students happily participated in the program. They managed to complete all the objectives, thus achieving the maximum score in the game.
Our researchers participated in the 16th ISORECEA conference in Tirana.
Last week, Prof Dr Gabriella Pusztai, the head of our research group, visited the Rákóczi College in the framework of the Makovecz Teacher Mobility Programme, where she gave a lecture entitled Parent-School Collaboration - a Component of Resilience, based on the research conducted by the research group, for MA students in Education and Institutional Leadership, and BA and MA students in Early Childhood Education and Teaching.
MTA-DE-CSATOKK results in Philadelphia.
The work of our research group was presented today in Philadelphia, at the 21st International Roundtable on School, Family, and Community Partnerships, INET conference.
Our research group was represented at the site by Megumi Hine, who presented the latest results of the MTA-DE-CSATOKK. The conference was attended by two European countries, Ireland and Hungary. The following countries took part in the conference: Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia Mexico, and the United States of America.
Thank you to researcher Joyce Epstein for the opportunity!
Title of the presentation: Effects of Family-School-Community Partnership Policies on Parental Involvement in Three Central and Eastern European Countries
(Megumi Hine, Johns Hopkins University, for Gabriella Pusztai, Katinka Bacskai, Tímea Ceglédi, Zsófia Kocsis, University of Debrecen, Hungary)
Testing of the board game we designed is ongoing. Zsófia Kocsis, head of the board game design work group, tested the game in one of our partner schools. We would like to thank the school for the opportunity and thank the teachers for their participation and activity.
The first Education Film Club on Parental Involvement was organized, and we watched the film Instant Family and worked on creative exercises
A member of our research group, Dr. Ágnes Hornyák, research teacher, participated in the EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP NETWORK EUROPE (ELNE) international webinar yesterday
Title of his presentation: The Importance of Teacher Motivational Factors in the Development of Educational Innovations and Retention in the Teaching Profession.
Congratulations on the performance!
Our self-developed board game is under testing.
The latest issue of the CEJER journal, edited by the pillar leaders of our research group, Katinka Bacskai and Nóra Imre, has been published.
The title of the thematic issue is: New Approaches to Family-School Partnership. The work of several of our researchers can be read in the thematic issue!
Congratulations to the editors and authors alike!
The reports of the students participating in the project work related to our research were presented in the framework of our Sociology of Education course.
Thank you and congratulations on the students' work!
Researchers and interns at the University of Debrecen are developing their board game
interview with the head of the research, Prof. Dr. Gabriella Pusztai, in the Debrecen press.
On the occasion of the Hungarian Science Festival, the MTA-DE-Csatokk Research Group is organizing a scientific symposium entitled "Research and development in public education. The family-school partnership as an untapped resource for success".
Time: 10:00-12:00
Location: DAB Headquarters and online square
Program:
Prof. Dr. Gabriella Pusztai: Open questions and methodological possibilities in the research of parental participation
Dr. Katinka Bacskai: Territorial inequality in family-school relations
Dr. Tímea Ceglédi: Parental involvement from a disadvantage in an international perspective. The relationship of disadvantaged and Roma families with education
Cintia Csók: Educators and professionals helping teachers in the family-school partnership
The research that forms the basis of the lectures was carried out by the MTA-DE-Families and Teachers Cooperation Research Group and supported by the Public Education Development Research Program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The analysis of the János Bolyai Research Scholarship,
furthermore, it was prepared with the professional support of the New National Excellence Program of the Ministry of Culture and Innovation, code number ÚNKP-23-5, financed by the National Research, Development, and Innovation Fund.
The leader of our research, Prof. Dr. Gabriella Pusztai, gave a lecture entitled "Effects of Family-School-Community Partnership Policies on Parental Involvement in Three Central and Eastern Europeans" at the 4th Barcelona Conference on Education in the online space. Congratulations on your presentation!
Our five-member team represented the CHERD - Hungary Educational Research Internship Program at the ATEE Annual Conference 2023 - TEACHERS EDUCATION ON THE MOVE international conference. At the workshops organized on August 27, the participants discussed various aspects of teacher training.
Interns Dorottya Fekete, Kincső Fekete Emese, Vanda Pető, and Dániel Bodnár, as well as research mentor Tímea Ceglédi and coordinator of the Internship Program, participated in the workshop entitled "The Role of NGOs and their Potential in Supporting Initial Teacher Education". At the meeting, non-state-funded domestic and international organizations and initiatives dealing with teacher training were in the spotlight.
Our interns and our coordinator gave an outstanding presentation to the other participants about the Internship Program, which thus took its first step on the international stage. The history, theoretical background, activities, and future of the Program were also discussed. At the event, we also contacted representatives of similar initiatives to expand the borders of the Program in Debrecen and beyond the borders of the country.
Four members of our research team participated in the ECER 2023 conference in Scotland. On Wednesday, a lecture was held on the topic of parental involvement.
In the Parents' Involvement in Schools and Communities section, Dóra Szabó and Zsófia Kocsis gave a presentation entitled "Won't be Enough to Invite Parents to School Events" - Characteristics of Parental Involvement in Hungary. The head of the section was Zsófia Kocsis.
Gabriella Pusztai, Zsuzsanna Demeter-Karási, and Enikő Maior represented their co-authors, Major Enikő and Marcel Puskás in the Communities, Families and Schooling in Educational Research section. The title of their presentation: Comparing the Parent-School Cooperation of Public and Non-governmental Schools
Many people were interested in the sessions, congratulations on the presentations and the representation of the research group!
Katinka Bacskai, representing her co-authors, gave her lecture at the College of Doctors of the Hungarian Reformed Church event in Budapest.
The title of the presentation by Gabriella Pusztai, Zsuzsanna Demeter-Karási, and Katinka Bacskai is: School or community? The relationship between parents and schools in church schools around the world.
Our foreign doctoral student and junior researcher won the best presentation award at the 6th International Conference on Future Education 2023!
The title of his presentation: PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN SUPPORTING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) AS A FUTURE EDUCATION TOOL FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD)
Our researchers participated successfully in the 6th International Conference on Future Education 2023!
Our researchers participated in the HEAd (9th International Conference on Higher Education Advances) conference in Valencia, Spain.
The following presentations were held:
Klára Kovács, Beáta Dobay, Szabolcs Halasi, Tamás Pinczés: Job Demands and Resources in the Work of University Teachers in Central and Eastern Europe
Anett Hrabéczy, Gabriella Pusztai: Embeddedness of students with special educational needs in higher education
Dr. Klára Nagy-Kovács was also a section leader in the Innovative Learning and Teaching Experience section.
We look forward to welcoming all interested parties to the Research Evening to be held online on February 21, 2023 (Tuesday) from 4:00 p.m., during which members of the research group will give a presentation.
The topic of the presentation is "Grounded Theory is a qualitative research paradigm. Methodological insight into the interview research process of resilient teachers".
Speakers: Tímea Ceglédi, Cintia Csók, Fekete Emese Kincső, Jenifer Balogh, Réka Mándoki
In recent weeks, members of our research group visited our partner institutions;
- Szerencsi Sz.C. Tokaji Ferenc Technical College, Vocational High School, and High School,
- Mátészalka Vocational Training Center to Kállay Rudolf Vocational School,
- Szent István High School,
where admission information was held about our department's undergraduate major, pedagogy, as well as playful lessons.
Topics related to parental involvement in the Sociology of Education course.
Members of our research group regularly lectured at the University of Debrecen's Sociology of Education course. Within the framework of the course, teaching students can learn about many topics and experience the importance of parental involvement. During the lectures, we strove for the students to gain knowledge about parental involvement that they can use in their later careers.
Anett Rusznák and Réka Mándoki presented the issue of parental involvement based on international and domestic research.
Krisztina Győri gave a lecture on digital education and highlighted that parents often expect help from teachers on this topic.
The members of the research group give several lectures at the XXII Pécs. At the National Educational Science Conference.
"Factors influencing parental participation in school and within the family. Results of a nationally representative study." symposium
(Symposium leader: Gabriell Pusztai, Opponent: Imre Anna)
- Veronika Bocsi: Pupils' activities at home depending on parents' education
- Gabriella Pusztai – Fényes Hajnalka – Péter Róbert: Relationships between the school maintenance sector and parental involvement
- Anett Hrabéczy – Katinka Bacskai – Tímea Ceglédi: The impact of social capital as a compensating factor on the performance of students with learning problems
- Krisztina Győri: "Are you on the phone again?" The role of parents in their child's digital education
"Church and education. Attitudes of actors in public and higher education institutions" symposium
(Symposium leader: Laura Morvai, Opponent: Tamás Kozma)
- Major Enikő - Katinka Bacskai - Ágnes Engler: Value preferences realized during the work of educators in the state and church sectors
- Anett Rusznák – Zsófia Kocsis: Characteristics of parental involvement in the state and church sectors
- Laura Morvai: The effect of parental involvement on the effectiveness of competence measurement and further education in the institutions granting the baccalaureate in an inter-sector comparison
- Zsuzsanna Demeter-Karászi: Institutional culture in cross-sectoral comparison
"From problems to solutions. Parental involvement through the eyes of a teacher". symposium
(Symposium leader: Tímea Ceglédi, Opponent: Gabriella Kállai)
- Tímea Ceglédi – Emese Fekete: Educators' reflective interpretation of problems and roles in supporting parental involvement
- Éva Csonka – Viktória Lánczi: The social distance between family and school from the perspective of teachers
- Gabriella Hegedűs - Major Enikő: Realizing good practices in the relationship between parents, teachers and students
- Katinka Bacskai - Beáta Dan - Eszter Kovács Karolina: The place and role of families in the educational practices of Hungarian special education in Romania
"Conflicts and harmony. Aspects of the relationship between family and school in the light of systematic literature analyses" symposium
(Symposium leader: Katinka Bacskai, Opponent: Anikó Fehérvári)
- Tímea Ceglédi - Katalin Pallay - Gabriella Hegedűs - Vivien Orgován - Jenifer Balogh: What do we (not) know about Roma parents? Lessons from a systematic literature review from an international perspective
- Cintia Csók - Emese Alter - Katinka Bacskai - Beáta Dan - Gabriella Pusztai: The role of support professionals in parental involvement. Results of a systematic literature review
- Edit Polgáriné Szilágyi - Major Enikő - Ádám Bencze - Éva Csonka - Zsuzsanna Demeter- Karászi: Cross-sectoral comparison of parental involvement in international practice
- Krisztina Győri - Lajos Panna - Dóra Szabó: Parental involvement in digital education. Systematic literature analysis
- Alter Emese - Fényes Hajnalka: Gender differences in parents' involvement in their child's academic progress and the effect of family structure. It is the result of a systematic literature review
"Parental involvement in the light of the arts" symposium
(Symposium leader: Tímea Szűcs, Opponent: Alice Bredács)
- Tímea Szűcs: Parental involvement in the arts
- Judit Váradi: The effect of the active involvement of the parent and the motivation of joint musical activities at home on the child's musical education
- Zsófia Miklódi-Simon: Childhood development with unusual methods, the positive effects of visual, dance and theater arts education with the help of parental involvement
- Kelemen Henrietta: Parental attention, mostly with the role of encouragement and support
"Sports and science through the eyes of a sociologist"
Gabriella Pusztai, the director of the DE Institute of Education and Cultural Studies, emphasized in the closing remarks of the conference: it was a great opportunity that the institution could host the international conference because not only the experienced researchers but also several of the younger doctoral students and the students involved in their research were able to present their results to the international scientific community.
The central topic of the research series conducted at our institute is the formation of students and students' physical activity and health behavior, as well as its impact on their academic careers. In addition, several doctoral dissertations defended by us dealt with the impact of the introduction of daily physical education on students and teachers, and more recently, within the framework of the MTA-DE-Families and Teachers Cooperation Research Group, the sports pedagogy working group also examines the impact of parental involvement in school sports on the effectiveness - explained the director.
Our researchers (Árpád Pándy, Katinka Bacskai, Tímea Ceglédi, Gabriella Pusztai) participated in The 9th International Conference on Social Sciences 2022. At the international conference, Árpád Pándy represented the MTA-DE-Csatokk Research Group. The title of their presentation: Analyzing interview transcripts using sentiment analysis and topic models.
Dr. Tímea Ceglédi, assistant professor at the Institute of Education and Cultural Sciences and head of the Family and Teachers Cooperation Research Group of the University of Debrecen, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, won the performance-oriented, highly prestigious national scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the János Bolyai Research Scholarship, in 2022. The ceremonial award ceremony took place on September 15 as part of the MTA's Bolyai Day. The video recording of the event can be viewed at the following link: https://youtu.be/79bc8E4cgCA
Zsuzsanna Demeter-Karászi and Zsófia Kocsis represented one of our working groups at the international conference Teacher Training in Europe, Challenges, Problems, and Solutions.
In their presentation, they talked about the voluntary activities of parents at school.
The head of the research group, Prof. Dr. Gabriella Pusztai, participated as a plenary speaker at the 5th International Conference on Future Education (2022).
Title of the presentation: "A Hidden Factor Supporting Value-Added Parenting"
Members of our research group were also present at the conference:
- Kocsis Zsófia: The Impact of Parent Volunteering in School
- Csók Cintia: School Support Professionals as Educational Partners
- Ceglédi Tímea: Roma Parents’ Voice: Parental Involvement and Resilient Academic Career
- Bacskai Katinka: School and Family in the Central European Region During the 2020 Covid Lockdown
The members of our research group won the "Overall Best Presenters for FOE 2022" award. Congratulations to Professor Gabriella Pusztai, Zsófia Kocsis and Jenifer Balogh!
Our researchers (Dr. Tímea Ceglédi, Dr. Katinka Bacskai, and Zsófia Kocsis) took part in the Mátrafüred workshop of the MTA Public Education Development Research Program between May 11 and 13. During the program, they acquired a lot of new and forward-looking professional knowledge.
Our researchers (Dr. Tímea Ceglédi, Dr. Katinka Bacskai, and Zsófia Kocsis) took part in the Mátrafüred workshop of the MTA Public Education Development Research Program between May 11 and 13. During the program, they acquired a lot of new and forward-looking professional knowledge.
A member of our research group, Dr. Katinka Bacskai, also held a workshop session and shared the experiences of our research group in relation to the preparation of the systematic literature summary. Leaders and members of 19 research groups from all over the country took part in the workshop. The short presentation was followed by an efficient and pleasant discussion.
We held our Opening Event on Friday as part of an introductory conference together with representatives of the partner institutions participating in the program. Thank you to everyone for participating!
Representatives of the press also wrote about the event, which can be read at the following link:
University of Debrecen, Press Office
The CHERD - Hungary Educational Research Internship Program has started!
The Educational Research Internship Program of the Higher Education Research and Development Center of the University of Debrecen (CHERD-Hungary) started in September 2021 with the individual and group participation of teaching students.
The interns can participate in the Research Center's research, which deals with the most current issues in the world of the school. The interns work on their own research topic, for the realization of which the Research Center provides assistance. Each intern (or group of interns) is supported by a research mentor. They have the opportunity to join the research discussions, where we discuss current issues of the topic of your choice in an inspiring, collegial environment.
Our goal is to present the program in action, so you can expect:
- to life pictures
- to various entertainment sections
- for applications and conference calls
- for short articles featuring trainees
- to other current affairs.
Year-end summary
We started the research in September 2021, after it was revealed that the research group of the Institute of Education and Cultural Sciences of the University of Debrecen also won the Public Education Development Research Application of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
We have been actively working and researching for months, the results of which are summarized in the figure below.
10 senior researchers, 6 research teachers, 21 junior researchers, 16 interns, 11 master's and 3 undergraduate students participate in the research.
In recent months, we have conducted interview research in 3 counties, in a total of 30 elementary schools and 14 secondary schools. We are also in contact with 6 institutions across the border.
12 working groups work to explore the theoretical foundations of the research as widely as possible. At least 600 studies were reviewed.
The topic is currently covered by 8 doctoral dissertations, but 4 theses and another 7 TDK theses are being prepared on the mentioned topic.
In the next semester, we will continue our work and continue our research on the topic of developing the ability of teachers to strengthen parental commitment.
Presentation on supporting disadvantaged students through the involvement of parents cmmel at Szent Piroska Greek Catholic Primary School
Jenifer Balogh, a first-year doctoral student with a scholarship from our Doctoral Program, gave a lecture at Szent Piroska Greek Catholic Primary School as part of a series of programs showcasing talented Roma youth. They spoke primarily to Roma parents, foster parents and children about their successful life experiences. During his research, the doctoral student deals with the possibilities of involving disadvantaged parents in school as a member of the MTA-DE-CSATOKK research group.
The Public Education Development Research Program 2021 Workshop was organized by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on October 26-28. between at the Balaton Institute of Limnology
Our research group was represented by the research coordinator, Zsófia Kocsis, and one of our research teachers, Dr. Tímea Szűcs.
On the first day of the workshop, each representative of the research groups presented their research group and their research topic in FameLab style. On the second day, we attended a number of informative and useful presentations. Benő Csapó gave a lecture on information sources that help the process of publishing in international journals, while Péter Medgyes and Kata Csizér Wein shared useful advice with the participants.
After the pleasantly spent lunch break, Ödön Vancsó and Csaba Csíkos talked about publication habits, rules and experiences, with particular attention to the field of mathematics didactics. After the mathematics teaching research, in the presentation of Andrea Kárpáti, we learned about the development of publication standards in the field of art education. The professional presentations were closed by Gyöngyvér Molnár, who reported on the value system of academic research applications.
We spent a meaningful time in Tihany, thank you for the opportunity and the work of the organizers!
The research group got acquainted with the reference management software Zotero, which supports literature processing.
The research group continues its work every Tuesday from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in a hybrid way.