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What are the Advantages of Home Education?
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Criss Lyn
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Dec 14, 2020
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- For its adapters, homeschooling has several advantages. Here are the main ones.
This teaching method makes it possible to adapt to the child. The defenders of the IEF demand individualized pedagogy. No compulsory school program, no lesson, no division between subjects ... Parents provide lessons according to the wishes and interests of the children. The only requirement is that they must have the same level of academic knowledge as the pupils following a classical education at the end of the year.
Family education respects children's biological rhythms. Play, cook, make visits, offer free play time, adapt rest times… home schooling allows each child to respect the biological rhythm of each child. Home-schooling also makes it possible to devote more time to certain subjects on which a child presents difficulties, where the school struggles to offer a differentiated pedagogy.
Home-schooling bypasses the logic of performance. Parents adapted from school to home consider that from kindergarten, children enter into a performance logic, which is characterized in particular by the implementation of regular evaluations. Parents who practice IEF intend to circumvent this practice. At home, monitoring is continuous. On this point, the school is evolving. Continuous monitoring is increasingly required and the notion of progress gradually takes precedence over that of performance.
What are the limits of family education?
Homeschooling also has some limitations, summarized below.
Teaching is a profession that requires skills. Parents who are embarking on home schooling need to acquire pedagogical skills, which is not innate. They are advised to train or surround themselves with professionals.
The child loses some of his privacy. Private life and school life are intertwined. The child does not really have a "secret garden". The parent who takes on the role of teacher is present for all the daily activities of his child.
The parent “teacher” posture can be complicated to maintain. Between the lessons, the management of daily life, extra-curricular activities ... the parent who takes on the role of teacher may feel that they no longer have time for their own personal aspirations. Its positioning in relation to its child can also prove difficult to hold. It is thus shown that affect does not facilitate learning.
The social life of the child would be less rich . For a good balance, a child needs to cultivate a social life. Living together, respecting others, confronting ideas… at school, children meet people, discover different sensibilities and become aware of the existence of other universes. These are all aspects that can be complicated to implement in the context of home education