International Perspectives on Home Education : Do We Still Need Schools? / edited by P. Rothermel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rothermel, P., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational psychology.

Learning, Psychology of.

Educational sociology.

Teachers--Training of.

Teachers.

School management and organization.

Educational Psychology.

Instructional Psychology.

Sociology of Education.

Teaching and Teacher Education.

Organization and Leadership.

Local Subjects:

Educational Psychology.

Instructional Psychology.

Sociology of Education.

Teaching and Teacher Education.

Organization and Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection brings together the research of an eclectic mix of leading names in home-based education studies worldwide. It uses home education to explore contemporary education outside of school and place it into a global, political and critical context, and will be essential reading for home educators, academics and policymakers alike.

Contents:

Cover; Half-Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Home Education: The LearningProcess; 1 Home Educating Parents: Martyrs orPathmakers?; 2 Reflections on Australian HomeEducation Research and VygotskianLearning Theory; 3 Parental and Children's Views onMathematical Learning within theHome Environment; 4 The Informal Acquisition andDevelopment of Literacy; 5 How Are New Technologies ImpactingElective Home Learners?; Part II Home Education: Tensions andCriticisms; 6 Home Education and SocialIntegration

7 A Case of Mistaken Identity:Perspectives of Home Educators andState Officials in England and Wales,and Florida, USA8 Validity of High Stakes StandardizedTest Requirements for Homeschoolers:A Psychometric Analysis; 9 Does Home Education 'Work'?Challenging the Assumptions behindthe Home Education Movement; Part III Political Conflict; 10 Home Education versus CompulsorySchooling in Germany: TheContribution of Robert K. Merton'sTypology of Adaptation to anUnderstanding of the Movement andthe Debate About its Legitimacy; 11 Home Education: A Human Right?

12 Home Education and the EuropeanConvention on Human Rights13 Home Education: A DesperatelyDangerous Notion; Part IV Home Education: Lifestyle andChoice; 14 Homeschooling - The Choice and theConsequences; 15 Reflections and ComparativeAssessments on Home Education inThree Colombian Families; Part V Home Education: Models: War,Poverty and Necessity; 16 Home-Based Schools: Increasing theAccess of Education to Afghan Girlsand Women; 17 Minimally Invasive Education:Pedagogy for Development in aConnected World; 18 Black Homeschoolers: Nowhere Leftto Go

19 Education as God Wants It: Gender,Labour and Home SchoolingPart VI Home Education: Cultural andIntercultural Relations; 20 Carnival of Blogs: An Example ofFacilitating Intercultural Relations inHispanic Home Education; 21 Homeschooling and the InterculturalWorld in Which I Live; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Includes indexes.

ISBN:

9781349496112

1349496111