Institutionalization Models of Home Education Practices
The topic of home education has become very popular in parental groups and the media when there is the COVID-19 pandemic. It is difficult to record an increase in the number of families who have chosen for their children to receive a form of basic general education in the form of home education - the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation does not publish a report on this area.
Family education is a form of basic general education provided by the Education Act of 1992, in which parents take full responsibility for their children's education. The trend to take back the right to educate their own children has been going on for decades. "Homeschooling" or family education is a practice that has been actively developing in Western societies (Western culture) since the end of the twentieth century. Overall, the number of families educating their children at home does not exceed 2% of those who are legally required to receive compulsory education.
Scientific, especially pedagogical, studies consider family education as a marginal practice. We suggest that home education practices are one of the processes of transformation of the educational institution, framing new rules. Materials from interviews with parents-homeschoolers show that their choice is often a crisis practice when there is a shortage of formal educational resources, but they are generally committed to institutionalized forms of learning and seek to legitimise their practices.
Maria Pridatchenko, senior researcher fellow IL SIR, PhD in Sociology, Associate Professor at the Department of Sectoral and Applied Sociology at NNSU named after N.I. Lobachevsky.
When: 30 September, 3 pm (Moscow)
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Maria Prydatchenko
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