ABSTRACT We explore and characterize the use of WhatsApp group instant messaging as part of the social media trend in the context of parental engagement and participation in public schooling. We reveal how this platform is utilized within public school parental interactions, emphasizing the possible benefits as well as obstacles for such technologies in promoting parental engagement in diverse settings in Israel. Given the abundance of literature dealing with parental involvement in education in various cultural and socio-economic contexts, we propose a fresh outlook regarding one specific kind of such involvement through a social media platform, offering a novel methodology and proposing a new avenue of study for additional research in other contexts.

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怎么了？以色列不同教育环境中的家长 Whatsapp 讨论组

摘要 我们探索并描述了 WhatsApp 群组即时消息的使用，作为在父母参与和参与公共教育的背景下社交媒体趋势的一部分。我们揭示了如何在公立学校家长互动中利用该平台，强调此类技术在促进以色列不同环境中的家长参与方面可能带来的好处和障碍。鉴于在各种文化和社会经济背景下有大量关于父母参与教育的文献，我们通过社交媒体平台对一种特定类型的此类参与提出了全新的观点，提供了一种新颖的方法并提出了新的研究途径在其他情况下的额外研究。