Abstract
Family Child-Rearing Practices in the Transformative Society of Latvia
Abstract
Keywords: child-rearing practices in the family, educational field, parental
competence in child-rearing
The current research has grown out of changes in the family child-rearing
practices caused by the transformative situation of the Latvian society and socialphilosophical
paradigm shift. The research emphasizes individual’s autonomy
within the framework of a social system and focuses on parental competence in
child-rearing. The empirical part of the research has 3 stages: first, a pilot research
was conducted. Second, a questionnaire was distributed in order to gather data on
parental competence in child-rearing in contemporary Latvia. For the second stage
of the research, a biographical approach was chosen: the pedagogic situation was
investigated and a portrait was created of a family promoting positive human
experience. In the third stage of the research, the collected data was analized and
interpreted using mix-methods, i.e. integrating the qualitative and quantitative
research methods. The quantitative data was analized using the SPSS 15.0 system
while in processing the qualitative data, AQAD 6 was used.
