Seventeenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

This ethnographic research focusses on foreign parents, immigrants, and refugees, living in West Attica in recent years. The purpose of the research was to generally investigate their culture, the practices they adopt regarding the education of their children and the exercise of the parental role. The findings of this research also highlight the difficulties in achieving parental involvement, due to the reproduction of gender stereotypes in parents with a refugee background. Finally, suitable ways are proposed to achieve intercultural communication, through both live and distant means with modern easy-to-use technological applications. These means contribute to the effective communication of school and family and to the overcoming of existing obstacles in their communication, even during the time of a pandemic.