How Can Social Capital Become a Facilitator of Inclusion?

Abstract

Students with special educational needs are a diverse group. Promoting their learning success is particularly challenging, even in practice for inclusive schools. At the same time, parents are often left alone with diagnosis and treatment. Therefore, the focus of our study was on the families of successful students with special educational needs and the networks around their families. Our research question is: What are the differences in social capital between parents of successful students with and without learning, behavioural and emotional disorders, and difficulties (SEN B)? We analysed the survey Value-Creating Education 2020 (n = 1156). Parents of 10-year-old children were asked whether their child needs special education services because of difficulties in learning. We used separate ordinal regression models to examine predictors of academic achievement in the two subsamples of parents of students with and without special educational needs (SEN B). Our results showed that factors supporting success differed between the two groups. Family background and involvement of professional helpers (teachers, psychologists, special education teachers) in child-raising were not among the predictors of academic success for students who need special education services because of learning problems, but the availability of an extensive network of the family had a positive significant effect.

The Impact of Secondary School Students’ Perceived Parenting Values on School Choice

“…We have seen earlier that religious and conservative values were significantly higher among students in the denominational sector, which is also consistent with the parents' educational principles. Moreover, the choice of school is also guided by these educational values and principles (Hrabéczy et al, 2023). In terms of gender differences, we have found that all values, except hard work and leadership, were significantly higher among the parenting values of girls' parents.…”

“…Their research results show that parenting principles can be associated with the socio-economic background of the family. Traditional values and parenting principles are most often found in families from lower socioeconomic backgrounds (Hrabéczy et al, 2023).…”

Hallgatók a tanárképzés és az oktatás fejlesztéséért – A CHERD-Hungary oktatáskutató gyakornoki program a debreceni egyetemen

“…lamint a vallásszociológia. A CHERD-Hungary több kutatócsoporttal is folytat együttműködést, így például jelenleg az MTA-DE-CSAládok és TanárOK Kooperációja elnevezésű kutatásban vesz részt a kutatóközpont több munkatársa (Hrabéczy et al, 2023).…”

Parental Assistance with Assignments – Types of Parental Involvement in Homework

“…Parents' activities and collaboration in their children's homework provide children with a range of opportunities to observe and learn from their parents' models (attitudes, knowledge and skills related to learning), receive reinforcement and feedback on personal performance and abilities, and participate in learning-related educational interactions regarding the homework content and during learning processes (Chophel, 2021). However, there are cases where parental involvement and parent-school cooperation are particularly critical, such as the situation of children with special needs (Kovács et al, 2022;Hrabéczy et al, 2023).…”