Stepping out of the System? A Grounded Theory on How Parents Consider Becoming Home or Alternative Educators

Autor/in	Adamson, Carrie
Titel	Stepping out of the System? A Grounded Theory on How Parents Consider Becoming Home or Alternative Educators
Quelle	In: British Journal of Educational Studies, 70 (2022) 3, S.281-303 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Adamson, Carrie)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-1005
DOI	10.1080/00071005.2021.1959896
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Parents; Parents as Teachers; Home Schooling; Nontraditional Education; Decision Making; Influences; Constructivism (Learning); Educational Practices; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Eltern; Homeschooling; Home instruction; ; Hausunterricht; Heimschule; Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Influence; Einfluss; Einflussfaktor; Bildungspraxis; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper presents a constructivist grounded theory on the decision-making process that UK home and alternative educators undertake and the related influencing factors. Twenty-one participants from a diverse range of backgrounds were interviewed between one and three times over a two-year period. Some were current home and alternative educators and others were undecided, or had changed their minds about home educating. The core process is entitled 'Stepping out of the system?' It was constructed from three main categories: attitudinal direction, surveying the landscape and negotiating obstacles. Parents have opinions of school that developed before they began to consider how to educate their child; attitudes which are affect laden and guide the process of information gathering. The surveying the landscape stage involves both formal research and informal methods such as hearing the views of others and acting upon their own feelings. The final stage, negotiating obstacles, involves finding practical solutions to barriers they may face. The grounded theory is enriched and deepened by Reddy's (2010) concept of emotional refuges. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01