Russian Journal of Education and Psychology (Oct 2024)
THE FAMILY EDUCATION FORM IN THE ESTIMATION OF PARENTS AND RESULTS OF CHILDREN’S SOCIALISATION
Abstract
Background. Nowadays the family education is getting popular in Russia. It important to investigate reasons of this trend: disadvantages, advantages and consequences of it. Purpose. To determine reasons of choosing the family education from parent's side, explore their advantage and disadvantage, as well as investigate aspects of the socialisation of children who are in the family education. Materials and methods. In the research were involved parents, who prefer family or traditional education as well as children who are on family or traditional education. Parents were interviewed via the questionnaire of K.V. Zhuikova, S.V. Lyalikova "Family and home schooling as a model of education, the future". Children were tested by the methodology of diagnosing the socio-psychological adaptation of K. Rogers and R. Diamond. Results. Parents prefer the family education due to the low quality of the traditional education, intention to save children's health, supporting the attachment to parents and stressful conditions at school. They appreciate individual approach, flexible schedule and the time that the family education provide. They confident that the study is more important that estimations. The disadvantages of the family education are the lack of team-work experience, low level of socialisation. Meanwhile parents who prefer traditional education are more critical to this disadvantages. The criteria of choosing the traditional education based on such values as health, family well-being, independence, freedom in life, creative development and self-development. The parents who prefer the traditional education tends to choose the school uniform since they value achievements. Children from the traditional education have the high level of socialisation, they accept themself and others, have the less level of emotional discomfort (in comparing with children from the family education, who have dominate internal control and intention to domination.
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