Posted in Homeschool Law, International Homeschooling, tagged 1991 Education Act, Charles University, Communism, Czech Republic, Hungary, International Review of Education, Poland, Prague, SLovakia, Slovenia, Timothy Hagen, Yvona Kostelecká on March 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Record: Yvona Kostelecká, “The Legal Status of Home Education in Post-Communist Countries of Central Europe” in International Review of Education 58, no. 4 (August 2012): 445-463.
Summary: Kostelecká, on the faculty of education at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, and author of a fine 2010 piece on home education in the Czech Republic, here expands her scope to five post-communist states in Central Europe: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, and Hungary.
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Posted in International Homeschooling, tagged Czech homeschooling, Czech Republic, Czech Republic homeschooling, Estonia, Estonian homeschooling, Hungarian homeschooling, Hungary, Poland, Polish homeschooling, Russia, Russian homeschooling, Slovak homeschooling, SLovakia, Yvona Kostelecká on October 7, 2011| Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Yvona Kostelecká, “Home Education in the Post Communist Countries: Case Study of the Czech Republic” in International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 3, no. 1 (October 2010). Available Here.
Kostelecká, a member of the education faculty at Charles University in Prague, here tries to get purchase on homeschooling in the wider world of post-Communist Eastern Europe by looking in detail at the Czech Republic. Her conclusion? It’s legal but rare and heavily regulated.
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