Learning from lockdown – the voices of parents of Māori and Pasifika students

What can we learn from this period of school closures? Authors of the report School-led learning at home: The voices of parents of Maori and Pasifika students, Dr Melanie Riwai-Couch, Dr Tufulasi Taleni, and Ally Bull, discuss the value of parent voice and some of the key findings of their recent research.

This includes how school-led learning at home is conceptualised and the experiences of Māori and Pasifika families over the period of school closures. They also consider what we can learn from the weeks of lockdown about the value of home-school partnerships and what this means for schools moving forward. In particular, they urge schools to engage in true, bidirectional partnership with families, and to capture, engage with and utilise both student and parent voice.