Educational Practice Outside the System: Exploring the Legalization Dilemma of Chinese-styled Homeschooling

Abstract

Meeting the increasingly unique and different educational requirements of people has become a genuine problem for education in all countries as society develops and advances. The growth of alternative educational approaches globally is an investigation of this topic, and China's basic education reform urgently needs to learn from the positive experiences of the rest of the world. In recent years, the phenomenon of "home schooling" has quietly emerged in mainland China, but the ensuing issue of the legality and legitimacy of "home schooling" has attracted widespread attention. This paper analyses the legality and legitimacy of home schooling on the basis of the right to education and national legislation, and offers suggestions for the future legalisation of home schooling in China from both legal and policy perspectives, with a view to benefiting basic education in China.