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    Published: 2025-10-13
    Vol. 46 No. 2 (2025)

    Homeschooling as a Chance for the Student’s Mental Well-being?

    Emilia Mazurek
    Seminare. Learned Investigations
    Section: Articles
    https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.1865

    Abstract

    Homeschooling in Poland is a relatively recent phenomenon that elicits strong and often polarised reactions across different social groups. Proponents emphasise, above all, the individualisation of instruction, which is a defining feature of home education. Opponents, on the other hand, focus primarily on concerns about the potential for social maladjustment among homeschooled children. This context gives rise to a fundamental question about the nature and necessity of homeschooling—more specifically, about its potential benefits and limitations in supporting the mental well-being of students. The aim of this article is to address this issue. Some of the doubts surrounding this topic are clarified through a review of the relevant literature, which serves as a foundation for the analysis of the research problem. The conclusions presented herein are further supported by the results of original, objective qualitative research. In particular, the analysis draws on those aspects of the empirical findings that relate to the mental well-being of homeschooled students. As a result, the study presents an image of homeschooling as a practice that can foster students’ psychological well-being, especially in cases where this well-being was compromised during their time in the traditional school system. While the article does not exhaust the complexity of the issue, it offers a valuable starting point for further exploration of the mental well-being of students in the context of home education.

    Keywords:

    pupil, homeschooling, home education, well-being, subjective well-being, child which does not participate to school

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    Mazurek, E. (2025). Homeschooling as a Chance for the Student’s Mental Well-being?. Seminare. Learned Investigations, 46(2). https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.1865

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