Paweł Śpica
Małgorzata Obrycka
Aleksandra Zahorska
Our research team is a response to one of the key challenges of contemporary education systems in Poland and abroad, which is building valuable cooperation between schools and students' parents.
In 2024, in cooperation with researchers from the University of Pomerania in Słupsk and the Pomeranian University of Applied Sciences in Starogard Gdański, we conducted qualitative research consisting of conducting nearly 60 phenomenographic interviews with teachers (representing four generations present on the labor market - BB, X, Y, Z) employed in general secondary schools in the Pomeranian Voivodeship (Poland). We asked the surveyed teachers about their understanding of the concept of cooperation between schools and parents, their experiences in this cooperation and their vision of ideal cooperation. The research results we obtained indicate communication as a key element in building valuable school-parent cooperation.
In connection with the above, we currently (using quantitative methods) want to research the communication competences of teachers in selected European countries. The study we propose, in which we would like to involve researchers from other SEA-EU member universities, will bring us closer to achieving our main educational goal, which is to prepare a program to support the development of teachers' communication skills. Together with researchers from other universities, we would like to develop a common research tool (quantitative) and conduct comparative research in selected SEA-EU member countries.