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• Parents’ school volunteering in the interpretation of teachers in a disadvantaged region of Hungary

  28-48

  Hajnalka Fényes

  Valéria Markos

  Zsófia Kocsis

  Elek Fazekas

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  3

  In the international literature, there are many studies dealing with the voluntary work of parents at school, but there is little research on this in Hungary. In our study, we examine the volunteering of parents through the interpretation of teachers in three disadvantaged counties of Hungary, using a qualitative interview method. The research population was the teachers of primary and secondary schools, and the interviewed teachers were selected by multi-stage, stratified sampling. We included 38 interviews in the analysis, in which the voluntary work of the parents appeared. The interviews were analysed by manual and machine hybrid coding. According to our results, teachers also considered participation on request or under pressure as volunteering. “Real” volunteering is hardly present, and parents are less likely to initiate assistance on their own. Parents are typically occasional volunteers, and mostly the members of the parents’ work community participate in regular volunteer work. According to the teachers, the voluntary work of parents is indispensable in the life of the school, so in our opinion it would be important to promote it and to motivate parents to participate more in school life.

• Self-contained child protection – possible ways to open up

  178-194

  Andrea Rácz

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  123

  The aim of the research, based on a qualitative methodology, is to gain an understanding of
  whether external/affiliated services are provided in child protection system targeting parents or
  children and young people with child protection problems. The aim is to examine the extent of a
  service focused and innovative approaches in child protection, where is the place and what is the
  role of civil services. The study, which based on 15 expert interviews, argues that child protection
  is currently characterised by many dysfunctions, as a self-contained and isolated sub-system of
  social policy, which not only fails to deliver the basic objectives of child protection in practice, but
  in many cases hides structural deficiencies and systemic anomalies. There is a need to explore
  new ways of child protection, including the use of volunteering, the services of civil organizations
  and broad partnerships.

• The civil activity of higher education students and the correlation of their chances of dropping out

  141-156

  Hajnalka Fényes

  Valéria Markos

  Gabriella Pusztai

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  53

  Our research question is that volunteering and civil organization membership of higher education students are able to protect against dropping out from higher education or even divert from effective learning and hinder persistence. The positive or negative effect of civil activity of students is measured by quantitative multivariable method, and the question is whether there is there a clear effect of civil activity on persistence, after allowing the effect of other socio-demographic variables. The results show, that civil activity of students neither protect against dropping out nor hinder persistence in our sample. There were several variables which affected civil activity, and the good relationship with parents is protecting the most against dropping out from higher education, but the fact, that civil activity is neither divert from effective learning, and nor hinder persistence means that it is important to improve civil activity of higher education students due to its’ several positive effects.