A Survey on the Application of WeChat Platform on Home-school Cooperation

DOI

10.2991/iceess-19.2019.79How to use a DOI?

Keywords

WeChat platform, home-school cooperation, primary school, case study

Abstract

This study is to investigate and analyze the application of WeChat platform in home-school cooperation and discovers the problems existing in the current home-school communication. It is a case study, in which a primary school in Beijing was chosen to be surveyed. Questionnaires were handed out to twenty teachers and sixty students’ parents and then further interviews have been done. According to the respondents, WeChat platform can bring teachers and parents into close contact and enhance home-school cooperation. In terms of the deficiencies of home-school communication on WeChat platform, some suggestions were given accordingly. For families, they should not neglect their educational responsibilities. For teachers, they should make clear what and how to communicate with parents in group chat and private talk. For the school, it is better to appoint professionals to run the official account to fulfill its effects.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yafei Wang
AU  - Yumeng Zhao
PY  - 2019/10
DA  - 2019/10
TI  - A Survey on the Application of WeChat Platform on Home-school Cooperation
BT  - Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Education, Economics and Social Science (ICEESS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 314
EP  - 317
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/iceess-19.2019.79
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