Implications of the industrial revolution for the family and for the family education

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the contexts and implications of the industrial revolution for education and family, especially in its early stages. The main defining social aspects for the period after the development of the industry were the increase in the living standard, the development of transports and communications, the acceleration of the urbanization. All of these have experienced successive stages of increase or progress, based on the development of technology in developed countries, but an analysis of the implications they have had for family education and in terms of relationships between family members is all the more necessary since many problems from the previous stages remain current. The accelerated industrialization also brought with it the need to travel to different jobs, which led to a gradual decrease the time children could spend with their parents. In the current social context, marked in the world by an increasing rate of labour migration and implicitly by new challenges regarding education and relationships between family members, we have identified recurring hypostases and we synthesized a set of possible research topics able to offer data relevant to support the family in exercising its educational function.