Desde Aprender sem escola, me llega la información sobre esta investigación que ha inicicado Charlotte Rochez desde Canadá e Inglaterra. Gracias.
Charlotte nos comenta que su investigación se basa en la historia de la educación en casa desde el siglo XX hasta nuestros días tanto en British Columbia, Canada como en Inglaterra, Reino Unido. La investigación se basa en la participación y las aportaciones a las que se accede a través de entrevistas, testimonios y distintos grupos de debate. Está trabajando en una tesis doctoral, y el blog refleja aspectos relacionados con la marcha de la investigación. Le interesa convertir el proceso de investigación para la redacción de una tesis en una experiencia democrática de mano de los recursos que ofrece Internet. De manera que su blog es algo así como un experimento. Ni qué decir tiene que me identifico completamente con su peprspectiva a la hora de plantearse la investigación cara a la redacción de una tesis.
England – Research Questions
Participation in this research is voluntary. Responses may be used in my ongoing research which seeks to interpret meanings of home-based education. The research is a cross-cultural historical investigation which focuses on British Columbia and England from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The research is intended to form the basis of my PhD thesis for submission at the University of Cambridge, England.
These questions may be used as a basis for a reflective testimony of your experience and understanding of home-based education. Please either send your answers to me as an email (cdr34@cam.ac.uk) or personal Facebook.com message or share your answers publicly as a comment on the Facebook.com England History of Home Education group discussion board (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=32679206776&ref=ts).
In the data analysis and research report all responses will be treated as anonymous unless you specifically request otherwise. If you do not wish to respond to a question please type N/A and move on to the next question. Where relevant please make reference to dates or periods of time and geographic locations.
Thank you.
1). Basic Information
a). What year did you begin (and finish) home-based education?
b). At the time of home-based education where were you living?
2). Registration
a). Have you ever been registered with your local education authority?
b). Have you had any interaction with your local education authority?
3). Terminology and definition
How would you refer to yourself (home educator/home-based educator/home learner/homeschooler/unschooler /other)? What does this term mean to you?
4). Children
a). How old was the child on beginning (and finishing) home-based education?
b). Does the child have any special learning needs?
c). Has the child attended school at any point?
5). Purposes and reasons
a).What were your original motivations for choosing home-based education?
b). What were your motivations for continuing home-based education?
6). Please describe your home education provision and practice.
Aspects to consider include those such as:
a). The location of learning
b). The person teaching or facilitating learning (mother/father/tutor/sibling/self-taught/other)
c). The curricula (if any) employed
d). The pedagogy and learning methods employed
e). The schedule/time-table (if any) employed
f). The resources used
g). Examinations/tests used (if any)
h). Involvement in support groups and organisations
i). Involvement in clubs and activities
7). Social and Legal Context
a). What social reactions have you had to your home-based education – from friends and family, the wider public, schools and the media?
b). Have you received any support (financial or otherwise) from social contacts, institutions, support organisations?
c). How have you found the government and Local Education Authority in relation to your home-based education? Have you experienced any legal difficulties? Have you received any support?
8). If willing, please describe your social background. Please reflect on the relationship between your social background and your choosing home-based education and your practices. Aspects to consider may include those such as:
a). Religious-views
b). Political-views
c). Geographic location (rural/suburban/urban)
d). Parents’ age at birth of child
e). Parents’ education-level
f). Family income-level and social class
g). Family-size
h). Race
i). Other
9). Social Significance
a). What do you see as the implications, consequences, advantages and disadvantages of home-based education for the child and the family?
b). What do you see as the implications, consequences, advantages and disadvantages of home-based education for the community and wider society?
10). Do you have any additional comments?
11). Your responses will be treated as anonymous unless you specifically request otherwise. If you would like your name to be used if references to your responses are made, please state how you would like your name to appear.
Additional Questions for those who have been involved in (or have had an awareness of) home-based education for more than fifteen years – please answer with reference to the time during which you have been involved
12). Basic Information
For what length of time, in what geographic locations and in what ways have you been involved in home-based education?
13). How do you believe the number of people engaged in home-based education change (increased or decreased) during this time? What, do you think, has caused this change?
14). Do you think the motivations and reasons behind home-based education have changed during this time? What do you think has caused this change?
15). How do you believe popular home-based education provision and practices have changed during this time? Points to consider include those such as:
a). Locations of learning
b). The person acting as teacher of learning-facilitator
c). Curricula employed
d). Pedagogy and learning methods employed
e). The use of schedules
f). Resources used
g). The use of tests and examinations
h). Involvement in support groups and organisations
i). Involvement in clubs and activities
16). Social and Legal Context
a). Do you think social attitudes and reactions to home-based education have changed during this time?
b). Do you think resources and support for home-based education have changed during this time?
c). Do you think the relationship between Local Education Authorities & the government and home-based education has changed during this time?
17). How do you believe the social backgrounds of home-based educators’ have changed during this time?
Points to consider may include:
a). Religious-views
b). Political-views
c). Geographic location (rural/suburban/urban)
d). Parents’ age at birth of child
e). Parents’ education-level
f). Family income-level and social class
g). Family-size
h). Race
i). Other
18). How do you feel the implications, consequences, advantages and disadvantages of home-based education have changed during this time?
19). Do you have any additional comments?
