The position of homeschooling in the polish education system

Abstract

The article is aimed at familiarizing with the so called home education, an alternative form to public education in Poland. Home education offers a chance and creates conditions for natural and independent learning, with regard to individual potentialities, needs and the pace in which children and youth develop. This takes place in contrast to schools, in which children are treated as one, similar (to one another) group – not as a unique team of individuals. What has been presented in this study are the historical and legal threads of home education in Poland, the description of the functioning of schools which are to support homeschooling.