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| Author(s): |
Luciane Muniz Ribeiro Barbosa
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Educação (FE/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2013-06-03 |
| Examining board members: |
Romualdo Luiz Portela de Oliveira;
Celso de Rui Beisiegel;
Carlos Roberto Jamil Cury;
Clarice Seixas Duarte;
Nina Beatriz Stocco Ranieri
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| Advisor: | Romualdo Luiz Portela de Oliveira |
| Abstract | |
The current thesis aims at analysing the tenets and the basis of homeschooling, as well as its possible regularisation in Brazil. The number of families that decide to teach their children at home has been increasing, besides understanding that the present federal legislation does not permit such brand of education and makes compulsory the enrollment of infants in an educational institution. This phenomenon has incited specific actions of the Judiciary, the presentation of Bills for its regulation and the interest of society in an alternative way of teaching their kids, not to mention the debates and reflections on the subject. Following international tendencies in favor of the regularization of homeschooling, people who defend teaching at home in the country have reclaimed the use of international documents of Human Rights Protection to require the priority of parents over their childrens education and organised associations to exert influence over the Legislature and advertise the topic for the society. In addition to judiciary debate some questions have risen, such as: Are valid the arguments presented by parents to reject the school as a place to academic and social education? Which are the philosophical and political principals behind States refuse in relation of the compulsion to school education? Is it possible to see homeschooling as an alternative to school education of children and adolescents in Brazil and reject the idea that educational institutions have the monopoly over socialization and citizen formation issues? Would this type of education be viable to everyone or it would just represent the disengagement of a few ones with public education? What would the regulation of homeschooling bring on for the debate on teacher practices and teacher training? These and other questions about this subject are the focus of the thesis presented here, which is based on bibliographical research and interviews with families that teach their kids at home. It reveals the panorama of homeschooling and investigates it as a possible way to an education that is able to encompass academic results and the achievement of constitutional goals to the full development of the individual and their capacity to exercise citizenship. It is important to emphasize that all the discussion over the topic in question intends to contribute to the necessary confrontations for a high-quality public education for everyone. (AU) | |