Published: 2024-06-30

‘I got my life back…’ – home education as a friendly form of education for the student and his family in the opinion of the parents surveyed

Kinga Lendzion
Academic Journal of Sociology
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.21697/ucs.2024.33.1.06

Abstract

Home education is one of the alternative forms of education in which parents take on the responsibility of educating their children. The reasons for taking the children out of school and switching to home education are varied, but increasingly the negative assessment of system schools by parents and students comes to the fore. Among the advantages of home schooling are the possibility to adapt the educational requirements to the individual abilities and needs of the child, the lack of a disciplinary and therefore stressful school environment.

In this article, the author presents the results of a qualitative study conducted among parents who educate their children at home. One of the aims of the interviews was to find out how parents perceive teaching their children at home. In the analysis of the collected material, nine code groups emerged, including the effects of the switching to home education, among which two subcodes were distinguished: changes in the child’s behaviour in everyday life and changes in family life; and among these, further subgroups of codes. The analysis of the data obtained from own research, allows us to state that home education creates a welcoming learning environment for the children, as well as for the whole family.

Keywords:

home education, family, the education system, constructivist model of education

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Lendzion, K. (2024). ‘I got my life back…’ – home education as a friendly form of education for the student and his family in the opinion of the parents surveyed. Academic Journal of Sociology, 33(1), 55–70. https://doi.org/10.21697/ucs.2024.33.1.06

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