The Role of Families and Schools in Leading to Educational Inequalities in Secondary Schools during the Pandemic Online Learning Time

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10.2991/assehr.k.220401.146How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Educational inequality; Online education; The COVID-19 pandemic; Secondary schools

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic shocked education systems in most countries worldwide, limiting educational opportunities for a large number of students in most countries. Educational inequality, which has existed for a long time, is now being further reinforced and presents the public with additional variables that could lead to uneven education for students. From two viewpoints, this study investigates educational inequality among secondary school students during the pandemic-related online education: family backgrounds and school contributions. On the basis of qualitative analysis of online education during the pandemic and a semi-structured interview, it is concluded that the digital divide, family education investment and parental support, as three main factors of family backgrounds, are responsible for the inequalities; the findings also show that differences by school resource support and by home-school collaboration should be blamed for the unequal situation.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Huanpu Zhu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/08
TI  - The Role of Families and Schools in Leading to Educational Inequalities in Secondary Schools during the Pandemic Online Learning Time
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 763
EP  - 767
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220401.146
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220401.146
ID  - Zhu2022
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