International perspectives on home education : do we still need schools? /
This unique and enriching volume presents 21 chapters written by an eclectic mix of leading names in home-based education research worldwide. It is the first ever snapshot of global thinking in home based education issues with contributions from a diverse academic community from countries including...
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: The Learning Process. Home educating parents : martyrs or pathmakers? / Leslie Safran Barson
- Reflections on Australian home education research and Vygotskian learning theory / Glenda Jackson
- Parental and children's views on mathematical learning within the home-environment / Noraisha Yusof
- The informal acquisition and development of literacy / Alan Thomas and Harriet Pattison
- How are new technologies impacting elective home learners? / Andew McAvoy
- Tensions and Criticisms. Home education and social integration / Christian W. Beck
- A case of mistaken identity : perspectives of home educators and state officials in England, Wales, and Florida, USA / Samantha Eddis
- Validity of high stakes standardized test requirements for homeschoolers : a psychometric analysis / Nicky Hardenbergh
- Does home education 'work'? : challenging the assumptions behind the home education movement / Christopher Lubienski and Jameson Brewer
- Political Conflict. Home education versus compulsory schooling in Germany / Thomas Spiegler
- Home education : a human right? / Daniel Monk
- Home education and the European convention on human rights / Joke Sperling
- Home education : a desperately dangerous notion? / Paula Rothermel
- Lifestyle and Choice. Home schooling : the choice and the consequences / Ari Neuman and Professor Aharon Aviram
- Reflections and comparative assessments on home education in three Colombian families / Erwin Fabián García López
- Models : War, Poverty and Necessity. Home-based schools : increasing the access of education to Afghan girls and women / Ulrike Hanemann
- Minimally invasive education : pedagogy for development in a connected world / Sugata Mitra
- Black homeschoolers : nowhere left to go / Cheryl Fields-Smith
- Education as God wants it : gender, labour, and home schooling / Michael Apple
- Cultural and Intercultural Relations. Carnival of blogs : an example of facilitating intercultural relations in Hispanic home education / Madalen Goiria
- Homeschooling and the intercultural world in which I live / Carlo Ricci.