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Home school at the edge of chaos during the lockdown: Social workers’ perspectives

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  • Tiitinen, Laura
  • Harrikari, Timo
  • Koivula, Sanna
  • Romakkaniemi, Marjo
  • Fiorentino, Vera

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As a response to prevent the spread of COVID-19, during the spring of 2020, home schooling replaced classroom education. From the social worker’s perspective, this paper explores how home school was organised among the social work client families and what types of resources were needed and launched to control the complexity of home schooling during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic. The conceptual frameworks applied to theorise the self-organisation of home school and how resources were mobilised are complexity theory and social capital theory. The empirical analysis is based on digital diaries written by 33 Finnish social workers and analysed using a thematic qualitative content analysis.

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  • Tiitinen, Laura & Harrikari, Timo & Koivula, Sanna & Romakkaniemi, Marjo & Fiorentino, Vera, 2023. "Home school at the edge of chaos during the lockdown: Social workers’ perspectives," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 155(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:155:y:2023:i:c:s0190740923004462
    DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107250
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