Parents as Agents of Influence on Children's Digital Skills Development
<p>Transition to the digital environment transforms the schemas of social interaction including the relationship between parents and their children. Many parents who lack digital competence however are called upon to become agents of ‘digital socialization’ for their kids who step into the wor...
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Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology
2021-06-01
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| author | Irina Alexeevna Pisarenko Liudmila Igorevna Zaichenko |
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| description | <p>Transition to the digital environment transforms the schemas of social interaction including the relationship between parents and their children. Many parents who lack digital competence however are called upon to become agents of ‘digital socialization’ for their kids who step into the world of gadgets from an early age.<br>Current study explores parents competence (including, digital); their attitudes towards developing digital competence of their children; their coping strategies in the situations of child addiction to the digital gadgets, computer games and the Internet use; as well as their request to the education system in line with its ubiquitous digitalization. As a research method the authors have chosen the two-stage survey in which 118 participants took part — the parents of elementary school students. The data was analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. As a result the parents were clustered into several groups on the basis of: their digital attitudes (supporters and antagonists) and their level of digital competence (low-medium-high). Further the data was analyzed within each cluster. The study has revealed that the majority of parents report themselves as competent (60%) or highly competent (17%) digital users. Positive relationships were identified between the parents' digital competence level and 1) their digital attitudes — the higher the level of competence — the more positive were the attitudes; 2) parents active participation in their children’s digital skills development and acknowledging children’s agency in the process of digital self-education. The results reflect the range of parents' opinions which must be taken into account when assisting families in the process of child development and socialization.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3ce3023430284337b5c2d71a878114702022-12-21T22:58:09ZengRussian Academy of Sciences, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied SociologyИнтеракция. Интервью. Интерпретация2307-20752021-06-01132548010.19181/inter.2021.13.2.45928Parents as Agents of Influence on Children's Digital Skills DevelopmentIrina Alexeevna Pisarenko0Liudmila Igorevna Zaichenko1St. Petersburg State UniversityEstonia<p>Transition to the digital environment transforms the schemas of social interaction including the relationship between parents and their children. Many parents who lack digital competence however are called upon to become agents of ‘digital socialization’ for their kids who step into the world of gadgets from an early age.<br>Current study explores parents competence (including, digital); their attitudes towards developing digital competence of their children; their coping strategies in the situations of child addiction to the digital gadgets, computer games and the Internet use; as well as their request to the education system in line with its ubiquitous digitalization. As a research method the authors have chosen the two-stage survey in which 118 participants took part — the parents of elementary school students. The data was analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. As a result the parents were clustered into several groups on the basis of: their digital attitudes (supporters and antagonists) and their level of digital competence (low-medium-high). Further the data was analyzed within each cluster. The study has revealed that the majority of parents report themselves as competent (60%) or highly competent (17%) digital users. Positive relationships were identified between the parents' digital competence level and 1) their digital attitudes — the higher the level of competence — the more positive were the attitudes; 2) parents active participation in their children’s digital skills development and acknowledging children’s agency in the process of digital self-education. The results reflect the range of parents' opinions which must be taken into account when assisting families in the process of child development and socialization.</p>https://www.inter-fnisc.ru/index.php/inter/article/view/5928/5750parents digital competenceparental ict-mediationict-attitudeschildren digital skillsdigital attitudes |
| spellingShingle | Irina Alexeevna Pisarenko Liudmila Igorevna Zaichenko Parents as Agents of Influence on Children's Digital Skills Development Интеракция. Интервью. Интерпретация parents digital competence parental ict-mediation ict-attitudes children digital skills digital attitudes |
| title | Parents as Agents of Influence on Children's Digital Skills Development |
| title_full | Parents as Agents of Influence on Children's Digital Skills Development |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Parents as Agents of Influence on Children's Digital Skills Development |
| title_short | Parents as Agents of Influence on Children's Digital Skills Development |
| title_sort | parents as agents of influence on children s digital skills development |
| topic | parents digital competence parental ict-mediation ict-attitudes children digital skills digital attitudes |
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