International Perspectives on Home Education: Do We Still Need Schools?

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Home Educating Parents: Martyrs or Pathmakers?....Pages 21-29
Reflections on Australian Home Education Research and Vygotskian Learning Theory....Pages 30-43
Parental and Children’s Views on Mathematical Learning within the Home Environment....Pages 44-56
The Informal Acquisition and Development of Literacy....Pages 57-73
How Are New Technologies Impacting Elective Home Learners?....Pages 74-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Home Education and Social Integration....Pages 87-98
A Case of Mistaken Identity: Perspectives of Home Educators and State Officials in England and Wales, and Florida, USA....Pages 99-110
Validity of High Stakes Standardized Test Requirements for Homeschoolers: A Psychometric Analysis....Pages 111-135
Does Home Education ‘Work’? Challenging the Assumptions behind the Home Education Movement....Pages 136-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Home Education versus Compulsory Schooling in Germany: The Contribution of Robert K. Merton’s Typology of Adaptation to an Understanding of the Movement and the Debate About its Legitimacy....Pages 151-165
Home Education: A Human Right?....Pages 166-178
Home Education and the European Convention on Human Rights....Pages 179-188
Home Education: A Desperately Dangerous Notion?....Pages 189-207
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
Homeschooling — The Choice and the Consequences....Pages 211-222
Reflections and Comparative Assessments on Home Education in Three Colombian Families....Pages 223-233
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Home-Based Schools: Increasing the Access of Education to Afghan Girls and Women....Pages 237-253
Minimally Invasive Education: Pedagogy for Development in a Connected World....Pages 254-277
Black Homeschoolers: Nowhere Left to Go....Pages 278-285
Education as God Wants It: Gender, Labour and Home Schooling....Pages 286-299
Front Matter....Pages 301-301
Carnival of Blogs: An Example of Facilitating Intercultural Relations in Hispanic Home Education....Pages 303-313
Homeschooling and the Intercultural World in Which I Live....Pages 314-320
Back Matter....Pages 321-333