Abstracts
Résumé
L'éducation à domicile est une option éducative marginale, quoique légale et présente à travers le monde. Au Québec, jusqu'ici, aucune étude approfondie n'avait décrit cette pratique et la population des familles concernées était inconnue. Cet article porte sur les raisons du choix de l'«école à la maison», exprimées par 203 familles québécoises au moyen d’un questionnaire. Cette enquête, réalisée en 2003, visait à documenter les conceptions de l'éducation, les raisons du choix, l'expérience éducative et les caractéristiques sociodémographiques des familles. Les raisons évoquées sont multiples et hétérogènes. Les rationnels décisionnels des parents sont variés et multidimensionnels. Une des particularités de ces résultats est qu'aucune voix religieuse, anti-étatique ou philosophique ne semble dominer le discours des parents-éducateurs québécois. Pour l'ensemble des participants, les principaux facteurs à la base de ce choix sont un désir de poursuivre un projet éducatif familial, une objection aux modes d'organisation du système scolaire, une volonté d'offrir de l'enrichissement et un souci du développement socioaffectif des enfants.
Abstract
Home schooling is a borderline, though legal, option that is exercised throughout the world. Until now, there has been no in-depth study of this practice in Quebec and there has been no head count of the families concerned. This article deals with the reasons for choosing home schooling, as given by 203 Quebec families who responded to a questionnaire on the subject. The survey, carried out in 2003, was designed to document the families` representation of education, the reasons for their choice, their educational experience and their socio-demographic profiles. The reasons they gave were both numerous and diversified. The rationale of the parents’ decisions is both varied and multidimensional. One of the particularities of the results is that the discourse of these Quebec parental educators seems quite devoid of any religious, anti-State or philosophical overtones. For the participants as a whole, the basic factors that largely determined their choice were their desire to implement a family educational project, their objection to the modes of organization of the school system, a desire to offer an enriched learning experience and a concern with the socio-affective development of their children.
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