Deschooling as a Taboo Transgression: A Reconstructive Study of Justifications for the Familial Practice of Deschooling - Softcover

Böder, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3658398175 ISBN 13: 9783658398170

Publisher: Springer, 2023

Synopsis

With the realization of familial deschooling in Germany, the so-called social movement of the ,Freilerner’ transgresses a taboo and is therefore under enormous pressure to justify itself. Following on from this, the reconstructive study asks what latent structures of meaning underlie the subjective crisis scenarios about the schooling of children and the ideal concepts of parents in the sense-giving justification of the family deschooling practice. In the course of this, three types of the justification for the familial practice of deschooling, namely defending, charismatizing, and escaping, are empirically established. In this way, the study not only makes an empirically based contribution to a more reflective discourse on alternative educational practices, but also pushes itself into a taboo zone of school pedagogy and educational research in Germany. Because it addresses the school as a historically consolidated, but not as an organization without alternatives for learning andeducational processes of children and adolescents.

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About the Author

Dr. Tim Böder is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Education, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His research focuses on school culture, delimitations of the pedagogical and deschooling; youth, youth culture and politics; qualitative-reconstructive methods and methodologies.

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With the realization of familial deschooling in Germany, the so-called social movement of the ,Freilerner’ transgresses a taboo and is therefore under enormous pressure to justify itself. Following on from this, the reconstructive study asks what latent structures of meaning underlie the subjective crisis scenarios about the schooling of children and the ideal concepts of parents in the sense-giving justification of the family deschooling practice. In the course of this, three types of the justification for the familial practice of deschooling, namely defending, charismatizing, and escaping, are empirically established. In this way, the study not only makes an empirically based contribution to a more reflective discourse on alternative educational practices, but also pushes itself into a taboo zone of school pedagogy and educational research in Germany. Because it addresses the school as a historically consolidated, but not as an organization without alternatives for learning and educational processes of children and adolescents.

The Author

Dr. Tim Böder is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Education, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His research focuses on school culture, delimitations of the pedagogical and deschooling; youth, youth culture and politics; qualitative-reconstructive methods and methodologies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3658398175
• ISBN 13: 9783658398170
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 171