Title: ICT Use of Parenting in Early Childhood in the Pandemic Era: Benefits, Risks, and Implications
Stream: Nurturing Creativity & Innovation: New, Innovative & Radical Education
Presentation Type: Live-Stream Presentation
Authors:
Alice (Xuelian) Chen, University College London, United Kingdom
Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak poses serious challenges to established parenting practices. Increasing focus is being paid to ICT-assisted parenting, in which parents seek information, develop connections, and participate in intervention programmes. Global study indicates that online parenting is beneficial for children's cognitive, emotional, and behavioural development, as well as for parent-child interactions. Despite this, there is a vacuum in the research addressing the description of ICT use among parents of children aged 3 to 6 during and after the pandemic epidemic. Four databases are searched to identify six original research publications published between 2020 and 2022 about the use of ICT in parenting during a pandemic (ProQuest Centra, Elsevier Science Direct Journals, PsycINFO and ERIC). There are identified three major types of ICT use in parenting: information-centric, communication-centric, and intervention-centric. All three types of activities are favorable to parental activities, especially in lowering parental stress and boosting parental confidence during the lockdown. Given that post-pandemic parental ICT use research is still in its infancy, future research should focus on parenting intervention groups using rigorous quantitative study designs that include controlled groups. Guidelines and strategies should be issued to facilitate and ensure the quality of information dissemination. In addition, a relationship between home and school that incorporates online parenting into the communication agenda is also desirable.
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