Background: Excessive media usage affects children’s health. This study investigated associations between children’s and mother’s media use, parent-child interactions, and early-childhood development outcomes. Methods: 296 healthy 2- to 5-year-old preschoolers (52.4% male, mean age = 3.5) and 
224 mothers from the LIFE-child cohort study were analyzed. Screen times and parent-child interactions were assessed using standardized parental questionnaires. Developmental skills were investigated using the standardized development test ET 6-6-R. Results: High screen times in children (> 1 h/day) were significantly associated with lower percentile ranks in cognition (b = -10.96, p < 0.01), language (b = -12.88, p < 0.01), and social-emotional skills (b = -7.80, p = 0.05). High screen times in mothers (> 5 h/day) were significantly associated with high media use by children (OR = 3.86, p < 0.01). Higher parent-child interaction scores were significantly associated with better body motor (b = 0.41, 
p = 0.05), cognition (b = 0.57, p < 0.01), language (b = 0.48, p = 0.02) and social-emotional outcomes (b = 0.80, p < 0.01) in children. Conclusions: Public health strategies should seek to educate caregivers as competent mediators for their children’s media habits, with focus on the need for children to have frequent parent-child interactions.

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Five year old children starting their formal education in primary schools bring with them a range of informal mathematical understandings. Transitioning from an early childhood setting to the reception class at school can have a profound impact on their developing mathematical concepts. Traditionally their first teachers (parents, caregivers and whanau) gradually remove the support and encouragement and some of the familiar surroundings of their early childhood centres are no longer there. As children from 5 – 13 years of age spend approximately 85% of their time out of school it is important that their first teachers are encouraged to continue that support. This paper outlines a New Zealand project ‘Home School Partnership: Numeracy’ that gives one approach to enhancing children’s mathematical learning through shared understandings between home and school.

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Five year old children starting their formal education in primary schools bring with them a range of informal mathematical understandings. Transitioning from an early childhood setting to the reception class at school can have a profound impact on their developing mathematical concepts. Traditionally their first teachers (parents, caregivers and whanau) gradually remove the support and encouragement and some of the familiar surroundings of their early childhood centres are no longer there. As children from 5 – 13 years of age spend approximately 85% of their time out of school it is important that their first teachers are encouraged to continue that support. This paper outlines a New Zealand project ‘Home School Partnership: Numeracy’ that gives one approach to enhancing children’s mathematical learning through shared understandings between home and school.

Bildung ist in unserer heutigen Wissensgeselschaft der entscheidende Schlüssel zur Persönlichkeitsentwicklung, Qualifikation und gesellschaftlichen Teil habe. Doch Bildung ist mehr als reine Wissensvermittlung. Daher werden in Schulen in freier Trägerschaft pädagogische Vielfalt gelebt und demokratische Prozesse geübt. Die Kompetenzende Lernenden stehen dabei im Mittelpunkt.

Im alltäglichen Sprachgebrauch bezeichnet Mutterschaft für gewöhnlich ein spezifisches, exklusives (Verwandtschafts-)Verhältnis, das eine Frau ihrem (in der Regel leiblichen) Kind gegenüber einnimmt. Aus wissenschaftlicher Perspektive existieren unterschiedliche, teils konkurrierende Verständnisse von Mutterschaft. Ein gemeinsamer Bezugspunkt der verschiedenen Zugänge zu Mutterschaft innerhalb der Geschlechterforschung bildet die Annahme, dass es sich bei Mutterschaft um ein soziales Phänomen und nicht um das naturhaft determinierte Wesen von Weiblichkeit handelt.

Kinder von schädlich suchtmittelkonsumierenden und abhängigkeitskranken Menschen sind besonders hohen Risiken ausge-setzt. Dabei geht es sowohl um akute Risiken (wie Unterversorgung, Fehlernährung, Gewalt, Verabreichung von psychotro-pen Substanzen) als auch um langfristige Folgen wie psychische Störungen, Suchterkrankungen, Regulations- und Bindungs-störungen und Entwicklungsstörungen. Die Grundlage für solche Störungen wird vielfach bereits in der Schwangerschaft und in den ersten Lebensjahren gelegt. Für die Arbeit mit schädlich suchtmittelkonsumierenden und abhängigkeitskranken schwangeren Frauen/Müttern/(werdenden)Vätern und deren Lebenspartner haben Kooperationen und funktionierende Netzwerke der sozialen und medizinischen Hilfesysteme einen besonderen Stellenwert.

Mit Beginn der Corona-Pandemie waren die Familien in Deutschland konfrontiert mit völlig neuen Herausforderungen. Lockdownphasen mit Homeschooling und Kontaktverboten sorgten für eine Überforderung vieler Familien. Das Projekt Das Projekt „Konflikte in Familien in Zeiten der Corona-Pandemie - Fokus Sachsen“, welches vom 01.05.2021 bis 30.04.2022 am Forschungszentrum der Evangelischen Hochschule Dresden unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Nina Weimann-Sandig durchgeführt wurde, bietet hier wichtige Anhaltspunkte . Ein zentrales Ergebnis: Die Erfahrungen der vergangenen zwei Jahre sitzen tief bei den deutschen Familien. Sie erlebten und erleben herausfordernde und belastende Zeiten und entwickelten ganz eigene Bewältigungsstrukturen, um gut durch die Krise zu kommen. Jedoch machen die Ergebnisse deutlich, dass es spezifische Familienmodelle gibt, die es leichter hatten durch die Krise zu kommen, als andere. Das Vorhandensein von Ressourcen spielt hierbei eine große Rolle. Es sind die gutverdienenden Familien mit zwei Einkommen und Möglichkeiten der flexiblen Arbeitszeitgestaltung, mit ausreichend Wohn- und Rückzugsflächen sowie guten sozialen Netzwerken, die bisher relativ gut durch die Corona-Pandemie gekommen sind. Vulnerable Familienformen haben hingegen in der Krise deutlich gelitten. / Right from the start of the Covid-19 crisis, families were confronted with a host of entirely new challenges. Phases of general lockdown in Germany and repeated quarantine periods brought family members into closer physical and organisational proximity. Questions on the compatibility of paid work and family care work attracted scrutiny from the beginning of the crisis. Lengthy periods of home schooling in Germany and a high infection rate here in the federal state of Saxony compelled a large proportion of parents and children to repeatedly engage with the challenges entailed in organising learning at home for sustained periods. German bodies concerned with child and youth welfare rightly called attention to the increasing numbers of problematic situations that emerged as a result and the intensity of conflicts associated with them in families that had already been disadvantaged and under pressure before the pandemic. Valid empirical research results on the development of conflicts in families under the conditions of the pandemic were clearly urgently needed. The “KonFa” research project (“Conflicts in families during the Covid-19 pandemic”) accordingly aimed to contribute to closing this research gap, specifically by examining developments in the state of Saxony.

This report presents the first intellectual output (IO1) of the Open School Doors project. IO1 has been jointly produced by the whole project consortium. It summarizes the national policies and initiatives among the partnership concerning the parental engagement / involvement of migrant / refugee parents toward school life. To this end literature resources have been collected and then analysed, with the following aims: a) Profile the target group per country, i.e. outline what is the main audience, its specific cultural characteristics (if any), what has to be taken into consideration for the design of a Training Framework that will match both their learning and cultural needs, etc. b) Elaborate on certain cases of successful parental engagement / involvement, i.e. mainly EU, nationally or locally funded projects. The rationale behind the intensive search of such cases was to identify practices that really work but not to ‘reinvent the wheel’, and have a valid starting point for Open Schools Doors (OSD) Training Framework ‐ no doubt that the amplitude and variety of such programs are good indicators of each country policy and posture towards social inclusion and provision of equal opportunities to education. c) Identify the gaps in the current situation among the participant countries and design a Training Framework that will actively facilitate parents’ engagement / involvement to school life in a tangible and long‐term manner. Methodically authors started with desk research and apart from that empirical data was collected from focus groups which were organized with the view to validating what was theoretically concluded from literature resources by asking the main target audience of the project about the Training Framework specifications and features. To this end the last section summarizes findings of both theoretical research and focus groups, providing thus an overview of what is needed and on which directions OSD didactic approach should focus.:Abstract 6 Introduction and scope 7 1 Conceptualising Home School Interaction 9 1.1 Models of Parental Engagement 9 1.2 ‘Hard to reach’ parents or Hard to Reach Schools? 11 1.2.1 Intersectionality 13 1.2.2 Social Class and home ‐ school interaction 13 1.2.3 Ethnicity and home ‐ school interaction 15 1.2.4 Colonialism / Post‐colonialism 16 1.3 Home school interaction and technology 17 1.4 Infusing home ‐ school interaction with Literacies 20 1.4.1 Home ‐ school interaction as literacy work 20 1.5 Refugee Adults and Digital Literacy 22 1.6 Looking forward: Third Spaces and Multi‐Directional Parental Engagement 24 1.6.1 Multi‐directionality 25 1.6.2 Family Learning 26 1.6.3 Family learning and ‘Digital success stories’ ‐ ideas for future engagement? 27 2 The European dimension 29 2.1 European policies on parental involvement 29 2.2 Facts and figures 30 2.3 European and international experiences: interesting cases of parental involvement projects / practices beyond the consortium partner countries 33 2.3.1 Empowerment of Roma: An interesting practice followed in Croatia 33 2.3.2 Toddler: Towards Opportunities for Disadvantaged and Diverse Learners on Early Childhood‐Road ‐ an EU project 34 2.3.3 ASPIRA Parents for Educational Excellence Program (APEX): An ongoing parental involvement project 37 2.3.4 Involve Parents – Improve School – COMENIUS Multilateral Project 38 2.3.5 Language courses for people of a migrant background: An interesting practice from Sweden 41 2.3.6 More chances with parents: An interesting practice from the Netherlands 42 3 National Experiences 46 3.1 Austria 46 3.1.1 National initiatives, projects and articles in the area of parental engagement/involvement of migrant/ refugee parents 48 3.1.2 Recent initiatives and programmes to further language development 49 3.1.3 Political support for initiatives to engage immigrant parents 50 3.1.4 Lessons learnt 52 3.2 Germany 58 3.2.1 Parental involvement among migrants in German education research 58 3.2.2 Projects on parental involvement 59 3.2.3 Research results on (intercultural) parental work 63 3.2.4 Summary 65 3.3 Greece 67 3.3.1 Good practices and research about migrants’ parental engagement 67 3.3.2 Interventions and projects with migrants’ parents in Greece 72 3.3.3 Summarizing Comments 78 3.4 UK 78 3.4.1 Home school interaction and migrant parents 78 3.4.2 Home School Interaction and Roma families 80 3.4.3 Good practice – cultural acknowledgement 82 3.4.4 ‘Good practice at the grassroots’ 84 4 Focus Groups 85 4.1 Organization and scope 85 4.2 Overview about methodical aspects 86 4.3 Trans European focus group 87 4.4 Focus groups in Austria 90 4.5 Focus groups Germany 93 4.5.1 Focus groups Germany 93 4.5.2 Focus Group “German Parental Association” 93 4.5.3 Focus Group “Teacher Training Programme TU Dresden” 95 4.6 Focus groups Greece 99 4.6.1 Organization 99 4.6.2 Analysis and main findings 102 4.7 Focus groups UK 107 4.7.1 Issues and Themes Emerging from Focus Group Discussions 107 5 Conclusions and recommendations for the design of Open Schools Doors training framework 135 5.1 Leadership 135 5.2 Underpinning principles 136 5.3 Priorities for Teacher development: 139 Bibliography 142 Publications recommended for further reading 151 Appendix 152 A.1 Interview Guide 152 A.2 Feedback Template 154 A.3 Attendance List Template 155