Homeschooling in Chinese cities: educational implications for post-pandemic schools

Homeschooling in Chinese cities: educational implications for post-pandemic schools

• Lee, Tsz Lok Trevor The Education University of Hong Kong

Educational Review, 2023

Routledge

2023

• A Human Growth & Development
  • AE Socioeconomic & Cultural Differences, Class & Family Background
• A Human Growth & Development
  • AF Family & Development, Family Relationship, Reproduction & Child Rearing, Family Education, Parental Involvement
• P Social Context of Education
  • PB Comparative Education

Diversification Hybridisation Personalisation Post-pandemic Schools Chinese Homeschooling Home-school Relations

• Hong Kong
• Taipei

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

This article reports the findings of a multi-site qualitative study of 31 Chinese homeschooling families in Taipei and Hong Kong. Homeschooling, a significant source of inspiration for school innovation, has been growing around the globe in recent years, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic highlighting the challenges facing mainstream schools. The findings reveal that the families under study chose to homeschool their children mainly because they were dissatisfied with mainstream schools in the Chinese context, which, as they described, were not sufficiently child-centric. Notably, their homeschooling practices were highly diversified and hybridised, including a variety of organisational methods, actors, and materials. Based on lessons learned from homeschooling, the findings indicate the need for mainstream schools to reimagine their relations with families and the outside world in terms of pedagogic time, space, relations, and resources to better respond to every student’s unique needs as well as the challenges ahead in the post-pandemic world. Copyright © 2023 Educational Review.

• English

Journal Articles

• 00131911

• 10.1080/00131911.2023.2234662

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/f1b1a2dc

2023-10-18