All Education is Spiritual and Ergo Homeschooling is Resurging

• Authors: Brian D. Ray

Title variants

Duchowy charakter całości edukacji powodem odradzania się edukacji domowej

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

All education is spiritual and ergo homeschooling is resurging. Parent-directed, family- and home-based private education schooling – that is, homeschooling – is millennia old and has experienced a notable renascence around the world during the past 40 years. With respect to homeschooling, “Parent-directed means the parents have deliberately chosen to take responsibility for the education of their children, controlling both the education process and the curriculum (course of study). Family-based means the center of educational gravity is the home, with other resources being secondary” (homeschoolingbackgrounder.com, 2020). One of the key reasons that home education is growing is that more parents and more of the general public are recognizing that all education of children deals with values, beliefs, and, ultimately, an overall worldview (Weltanschauung). Because worldview is a comprehensive conception or apprehension of the world, especially from a specific standpoint, it is, de facto, spiritual. This paper shows that all education and schooling is the teaching, training, and indoctrination of children, that the worldwide rebirth of home education came with a focus on spirituality, that empirical evidence shows that all education is spiritual and spirituality is motivating many homeschoolers, and, finally, that scholarly theoretical arguments against homeschooling involve the spiritual.

PL

Każda odmiana edukacji ma „duchowy” charakter, czego konsekwencją jest renesans edukacji domowej. Kierowana przez rodziców, oparta na rodzinie i domu prywatna edukacja – tj. edukacja domowa – ma tysiące lat, a od czterdziestu lat doświadcza zauważalnego renesansu na całym świecie. Oto jego definicja: „Kierowanie przez rodziców oznacza, że dobrowolnie przyjmują oni na siebie odpowiedzialność za edukację swoich dzieci, kontrolując zarówno jej proces, jak i program (treści). Oparcie na rodzinie to wskazanie, że środkiem ciężkości edukacji jest rodzinny dom, a jej środki mają drugorzędne znaczenie” (homeschoolingbackgrounder.com, 2020). Jednym z głównych powodów upowszechniania się edukacji domowej jest to, że coraz większa liczba rodziców i coraz większy segment opinii publicznej uznaje za istotne wartości, przekonania, a ostatecznie ogólny światopogląd (Weltanschauung). Jako że światopogląd jest ogólną koncepcją lub wizją świata, szczególnie z konkretnego punktu widzenia, to de facto ma charakter duchowy. Artykuł ten wykazuje, że cała edukacja i kształcenie są nauczaniem, wdrażaniem i indoktrynacją dzieci, że światowe odradzanie się edukacji domowej dokonuje się z orientacją na duchowość oraz że empiryczne dowody przesądzają o tym, iż całość edukacji jest duchowa, przy czym duchowość motywuje wielu edukatorów domowych, a wreszcie że akademickie, teoretyczne zaledwie argumenty przeciwko edukacji domowej same zdradzają swoiste uduchowienie.

Keywords

EN

homeschooling; home education; spirituality; public school; private school

PL

edukacja domowa; duchowość; szkoła publiczna; szkoła prywatna; edukacja domowa; duchowość; szkoła publiczna; szkoła prywatna

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Nauki o Wychowaniu. Studia Interdyscyplinarne
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 244-259

Dates

published

2021-07-01

Contributors

author

Brian D. Ray

• National Home Education Research Institute Salem, Oregon, USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/2450-4491.12.16