Home Based Learning—A Flexible and Personalised Approach to Education

Home-based learning or home-schooling refers to learning from home rather than school. It is an acquiring education by children where parents or tutors teach them at home without going to school to attend the normal classes. A common saying is “Home is the first school and parents are the first teachers”. It seems to be an opportunity to children to learn independently and to become more self-directed in their way of learning. This type of learning encourages the children to be flexible with their studies through engaging with the family and spending time for their own recreational activities or work. It promotes the involvement of parents in academic matters. Many countries, such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, legally support the existing method of home-based learning or home-schooling by seeing them as traditional schooling systems. There are also some countries which didn’t support this system of education such as Germany, where it is seen as illegal, but the private or public education is set to be mandatory. As per the report of Times of India, legally the Indian judicial system does not hold home-schooling or online schooling against any section or provision (sections 18 and 19) of the Right to Education 2009. As the world face an outbreak of COVID-19 situation which changes the existing educational facilities into a digital world of learning. Thus, the concept of home based learning system was adopted everywhere. The research aims to analyse the concept of home-based learning a helpful way of learning for the world.