The Polish Home Education as a “Mise en Abyme” Between the Human Condition and Social Constructs of Education

• Main Author: Marek Budajczak
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ignatianum University Press 2017-09-01
• Series: Studia Paedagogica Ignatiana
• Subjects: edukacja; edukacja domowa; polityka oświatowa; prawo oświatowe; mise en abyme
• Online Access: https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/SPI/article/view/14693

<p class="szaretekststrangSTRESZCZENIE"><span lang="EN-US">Home education, treated as a social organizational form of instructing children and youth, where the coordinators are the parents instead of professional teachers working at a school, emerges as the main alternative to the governmental offer in the field of education, and not just in Poland. It is no surprise then that in the period of important quantitative expansion, home education is being discussed fervently. By using a literary and artistic criticism notion of mise en abyme, the author would like to demonstrate the tensed span of home education between the everyday, atheoretical parental insights into their child’s condition, and, more precisely, into the anthropological conditions of education with a personal substantiation, and politically motivated conclusions as to who a young person is, and – as a result of a regular, school education – who he or she shall become. It will be a perspective of a set of mirrors, with all their advantages and deficiencies, which adequately represents, or politically deforms humanity within single educational events or their continuations. In this way, the present condition of Polish education seems to be relatively hard, having at its disposal considerable optimizing potential as well.</span></p>