Cat Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3848017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cat Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cat |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8218-6384 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Examining teachers’ attitudes towards parental engagement: Findings from a national survey in England
Parental engagement has a significant impact on children’s educational outcomes, and teachers play a key role in facilitating this. Calls to include parental engagement within teacher education have therefore intensified, with increased focus on teachers’ parental engagement knowledge and skills. Yet, little is known about teachers’ attitudes towards parental engagement. Hence, this study examined teachers’ parental engagement attitudes using a n…
Do teachers have the knowledge and skills to facilitate effective parental engagement? Findings from a national survey in England
Parental engagement is known to positively influence children’s educational outcomes. However, it remains unclear whether teachers in England are sufficiently equipped to facilitate effective parental engagement. We therefore conducted a national online survey of 1782 qualified teachers in England, to explore their parental engagement training, knowledge, skills and factors influencing those skills. We identified concerning training gaps, with mo…
The positioning of parental engagement within England's current educational policy landscape
Parental engagement with children's learning is strongly linked with improved outcomes for children and has thus become a major focus of educational policy around the world. Yet to date, there has been little scrutiny of how parental engagement is positioned within policy documents, nor how this relates to parental engagement practices. This paper analyses the positioning of parental engagement in England's current national educational policy lan…
Predictors of Post-18 Educational Aspirations and Expectations for the Covid-19 Generation
This study used data from the COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities (COSMO) Study, to examine young people’s university aspirations and post-18 education expectations during COVID-19 in relation to their demographic and socio-economic position, school engagement, education disruption, and attitudes to education. Through a series of binary regression analyses, the findings showed the important role school engagement (in the form of online lesson…
How do parents and school staff conceptualize parental engagement? A primary school case study
Understanding what different stakeholders mean by “parental engagement” is vital as school leaders and policy makers increasingly turn to parental engagement to improve pupils’ outcomes. Yet, to-date, there has been little examination of whether parents’, teachers’, and school leaders’ conceptions of parental engagement match those used in research and policy. This case study used online questionnaires to explore the conceptions of parental engag…
Have Teachers’ Perceptions of Parental Engagement Changed Following Covid-19? Evidence from a Mixed-Methods Longitudinal Case Study
Parental engagement is of interest to teachers, school leaders, researchers, and policy makers as a key driver of pupil outcomes. Existing evidence suggests that parental engagement with learning in the home is most effective, but English schools often prioritise school-based events. However, the move to home-learning due to COVID-19 required parents and teachers to play different roles in relation to learning and in relation to each other. Littl…
Abstracts from the Spectra 2018 Symposium Part 4: Interspecies
Cat JonesMy artworks Plantarum: Empathic Limb Clinic and Somatic Drifts alter participants’ perception through visual-tactile illusion and synaptic reorganization, generating their reflection on transitory states and the malleability of the body matrix and triggering new experiences of empathy with the nonhuman.Plantarum: Empathic Limb Clinic blends concepts of neuroscience and horticulture via a cortical reorganization experiment, or what I call…
Slacktivism and the social benefits of social video: Sharing a video to ‘help’ a cause
Interest in online ‘slacktivism’ is high both within and outside academia, and the online sharing of cause-related campaigns is increasing, but research into the extent to which ‘slacktivism’ applies to the act of sharing online content to ‘help’ a cause is limited. Slacktivism, as used in much of today’s popular discourse, is defined as ‘feel-good online activism [with] zero political or social impact’ (Morozov, 2009). Here, a survey-based analy…
The positioning of parental engagement within England's current educational policy landscape
Parental engagement with children's learning is strongly linked with improved outcomes for children and has thus become a major focus of educational policy around the world. Yet to date, there has been little scrutiny of how parental engagement is positioned within policy documents, nor how this relates to parental engagement practices. This paper analyses the positioning of parental engagement in England's current national educational policy lan…
Slacktivism and the social benefits of social video: Sharing a video to ‘help’ a cause
Interest in online ‘slacktivism’ is high both within and outside academia, and the online sharing of cause-related campaigns is increasing, but research into the extent to which ‘slacktivism’ applies to the act of sharing online content to ‘help’ a cause is limited. Slacktivism, as used in much of today’s popular discourse, is defined as ‘feel-good online activism [with] zero political or social impact’ (Morozov, 2009). Here, a survey-based analy…
Abstracts from the Spectra 2018 Symposium Part 4: Interspecies
Cat JonesMy artworks Plantarum: Empathic Limb Clinic and Somatic Drifts alter participants’ perception through visual-tactile illusion and synaptic reorganization, generating their reflection on transitory states and the malleability of the body matrix and triggering new experiences of empathy with the nonhuman.Plantarum: Empathic Limb Clinic blends concepts of neuroscience and horticulture via a cortical reorganization experiment, or what I call…
How do parents and school staff conceptualize parental engagement? A primary school case study
Understanding what different stakeholders mean by “parental engagement” is vital as school leaders and policy makers increasingly turn to parental engagement to improve pupils’ outcomes. Yet, to-date, there has been little examination of whether parents’, teachers’, and school leaders’ conceptions of parental engagement match those used in research and policy. This case study used online questionnaires to explore the conceptions of parental engag…
Have Teachers’ Perceptions of Parental Engagement Changed Following Covid-19? Evidence from a Mixed-Methods Longitudinal Case Study
Parental engagement is of interest to teachers, school leaders, researchers, and policy makers as a key driver of pupil outcomes. Existing evidence suggests that parental engagement with learning in the home is most effective, but English schools often prioritise school-based events. However, the move to home-learning due to COVID-19 required parents and teachers to play different roles in relation to learning and in relation to each other. Littl…
The positioning of parental engagement within England's current educational policy landscape
Parental engagement with children's learning is strongly linked with improved outcomes for children and has thus become a major focus of educational policy around the world. Yet to date, there has been little scrutiny of how parental engagement is positioned within policy documents, nor how this relates to parental engagement practices. This paper analyses the positioning of parental engagement in England's current national educational policy lan…
Predictors of Post-18 Educational Aspirations and Expectations for the Covid-19 Generation
This study used data from the COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities (COSMO) Study, to examine young people’s university aspirations and post-18 education expectations during COVID-19 in relation to their demographic and socio-economic position, school engagement, education disruption, and attitudes to education. Through a series of binary regression analyses, the findings showed the important role school engagement (in the form of online lesson…
Examining teachers’ attitudes towards parental engagement: Findings from a national survey in England
Parental engagement has a significant impact on children’s educational outcomes, and teachers play a key role in facilitating this. Calls to include parental engagement within teacher education have therefore intensified, with increased focus on teachers’ parental engagement knowledge and skills. Yet, little is known about teachers’ attitudes towards parental engagement. Hence, this study examined teachers’ parental engagement attitudes using a n…
Do teachers have the knowledge and skills to facilitate effective parental engagement? Findings from a national survey in England
Parental engagement is known to positively influence children’s educational outcomes. However, it remains unclear whether teachers in England are sufficiently equipped to facilitate effective parental engagement. We therefore conducted a national online survey of 1782 qualified teachers in England, to explore their parental engagement training, knowledge, skills and factors influencing those skills. We identified concerning training gaps, with mo…
Psychology (6 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (2 works) · Family and Disability Support Research (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Medical education (2 works)