eprintid: 10157755 rev_number: 9 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/15/77/55 datestamp: 2022-10-21 10:52:55 lastmod: 2022-10-21 10:52:55 status_changed: 2022-10-21 10:52:55 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Kent, Carmel creators_name: du Boulay, Benedict du creators_name: Cukurova, Mutlu title: Keeping the Parents outside the School Gate—A Critical Review ispublished: pub divisions: B14 divisions: J77 divisions: B16 divisions: UCL keywords: parental engagement; artificial intelligence in education; COVID-19 note: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. abstract: The existing evidence shows that parental engagement is one of the most effective educational interventions. Most parents, carers, and teachers are aware of that and wish to engage with their children’s education. However, most parents are still only peripherally involved through parent–teacher evenings, school activities, or by helping their children keep up with their homework. In this review paper, we summarize the evidence about the impact of parental engagement, as opposed to involvement, on the learning of children. Via that, we critically look at the design choice of most western mainstream public education systems to distance parents from their children’s education, which, as the review results indicate, can be detrimental to children’s learning. Based on these results, we reframe parental engagement in the light of two global shifts: (1) the implications of the school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic for the role of parents in their children’s learning; and (2) the increased use of educational technologies for learning, and specifically, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. We conclude by calling for a renewed conversation about parents’ and families’ roles in their children’s learning and their interface with schools and teachers. date: 2022-10-08 date_type: published publisher: MDPI AG official_url: https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12100683 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1983169 doi: 10.3390/educsci12100683 lyricists_name: Cukurova, Mutlu lyricists_id: MCUKU85 actors_name: Cukurova, Mutlu actors_id: MCUKU85 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Education Sciences volume: 12 number: 10 article_number: 683 citation: Kent, Carmel; du Boulay, Benedict du; Cukurova, Mutlu; (2022) Keeping the Parents outside the School Gate—A Critical Review. Education Sciences , 12 (10) , Article 683. 10.3390/educsci12100683 <https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12100683>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10157755/2/Cukurova_education-12-00683.pdf