Parental Engagement: Why Parents in Russia Choose Homeschooling and What Problems They Have to Solve

Autor/inn/en	Lyubitskaya, Kristina; Polivanova, Katerina
Titel	Parental Engagement: Why Parents in Russia Choose Homeschooling and What Problems They Have to Solve
Quelle	In: Journal of School Choice, 16 (2022) 2, S.191-209 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Lyubitskaya, Kristina) ORCID (Polivanova, Katerina)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1558-2159
DOI	10.1080/15582159.2021.2018785
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Home Schooling; Parent Attitudes; Parent Participation; Barriers; Parents; Family Attitudes; Parent Child Relationship; Parent Role; Cultural Context; Elementary Secondary Education; Parents as Teachers; Russia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Homeschooling; Home instruction; ; Hausunterricht; Heimschule; Elternverhalten; Elternmitwirkung; Eltern; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Parental role; Elternrolle; Russland
Abstract	Previous studies of homeschooling focus primarily on two areas: the demographic characteristics and socio-economic status of homeschoolers and the achievements of homeschooled children. Recently, however, the angle of research has shifted to the emotional and social results and emerging problems of homeschooling. Our paper presents the first attempt to investigate the reasons families in Russia choose homeschooling in the context of the historical changes that took place in the Russian education system in regard to the reasons families in Europe and the US choose homeschooling. In addition, this paper identifies the barriers homeschool families in Russia face and ways to overcome them. The study is based on survey data (N = 151) and interviews (N = 33) of parents in Russia. Our results indicate that parents struggle to define their role(s) in their relationships with their children during homeschooling while also encountering a lack of support and the misunderstanding of other family members. In addition to these difficulties, we identified organizational problems, including the transition to homeschooling, the lack of parental pedagogical competence, and the lack of special methods of individual education. A distinctive feature of Russian homeschooling, moreover, is that it remains parent-friendly, allowing the family to choose and organize the form of education for their children, and is developing rapidly while existing being in an institutional environment controlled by the state, with the legacy of the Soviet educational system. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01