@article{repository4289,
          number = {4},
       publisher = {Ilkogretim Online},
           month = {June},
            year = {2020},
           title = {The development of a digital application to promote parents' involvement in character education at primary schools},
         journal = {Ilkogretim Online - Elementary Education Online},
          volume = {19},
           pages = {2564 --2570},
        abstract = {This paper documents the preliminary development procedure of a digital application named
Parents UP to promote parents' involvement in their children character education at primary schools in
Indonesia. Parents UP was developed as an android-based system interface and was proposed to enable
parents maintain mutual engagement with school administrator, teacher and pedagogy team in
nurturing and monitoring the good characters of the children. Despite the positive feedback from the
school head-teachers, administrators, teachers and parents towards the incorporation of Parents UP
technology in their children character education at school, some critical issues were highlighted during
the pilot project, such as different focus of character education at the participating schools, diversity in
parents' and students' economy and social status, and the influence of parents' culture and religion to
the activity modules in the application. In reference to the findings, implications of the study to further
development of Parents UP are offered.
Keywords: digital application, parents' involvement, character education, primary school education},
            issn = {doi :10.17051/ilkonline.2020.19.04.001},
             url = {http://ilkogretim-online.org/index.php/ioo/article/view/1808/1554},
          author = {Sari, Yessy Yanita and Zulaiha, Siti and Mulyono, Herri}
}