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This significant volume studies the growing body of research on home education, and offers a broad analysis of this movement. Introductory chapters present the most current information on the demographics of the movement and on the social and academic outcomes of home education. Beyond these data, the broader implications of the movement are considered in chapters discussing legal issues and policy analysis. Additional chapters provide historical and sociological analysis of the conflicts between parents and schools that often precipitate the decision to home school. The volume ends with an anthropological analysis of learning in the informal home setting and a philosophical critique of the movement as an abandonment of a belief in the efficacy of common schooling.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #2208660 in Books
• Published on: 1991-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 217 pages

Customer Reviews

still the best source of balanced info. on home schooling
As a scholar, working as an associate professor of cultural and interdisciplinary studies at Antioch College, I have a student population that contains a large number of home schooled students. Much has been published in recent years on home schooling, but this balanced collection remains the best source of information available on home schooling. It includes information on state regulation, historical context, the reality of particular family's experiences, the motivations of different groups heavily invested in home schooling, etc...For any academic undertaking a study of home schooling, for any parent considering home schooling of their own child or children, I highly recommend a serious reading of this definitive book.