International Perspectives on Home Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Paula Rothermel

      Pages 1-17

3. Home Education: The Learning Process

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Home Educating Parents: Martyrs or Pathmakers?

      • Leslie Safran Barson

      Pages 21-29

   3. Reflections on Australian Home Education Research and Vygotskian Learning Theory

      • Glenda Jackson

      Pages 30-43

   4. Parental and Children’s Views on Mathematical Learning within the Home Environment

      • Noraisha Yusof

      Pages 44-56

   5. The Informal Acquisition and Development of Literacy

      • Alan Thomas, Harriet Pattison

      Pages 57-73

   6. How Are New Technologies Impacting Elective Home Learners?

      • Andrew McAvoy

      Pages 74-84

4. Home Education: Tensions and Criticisms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Home Education and Social Integration

      • Christian W. Beck

      Pages 87-98

   3. A Case of Mistaken Identity: Perspectives of Home Educators and State Officials in England and Wales, and Florida, USA

      • Samantha Eddis

      Pages 99-110

   4. Validity of High Stakes Standardized Test Requirements for Homeschoolers: A Psychometric Analysis

      • Nicky Hardenbergh

      Pages 111-135

   5. Does Home Education ‘Work’? Challenging the Assumptions behind the Home Education Movement

      • Christopher Lubienski, T. Jameson Brewer

      Pages 136-147

5. Political Conflict

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. 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

      • Thomas Spiegler

      Pages 151-165

   3. Home Education: A Human Right?

      • Daniel Monk

      Pages 166-178

   4. Home Education and the European Convention on Human Rights

      • Joke Sperling

      Pages 179-188

   5. Home Education: A Desperately Dangerous Notion?

      • Paula Rothermel

      Pages 189-207

6. Home Education: Lifestyle and Choice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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   2. Homeschooling — The Choice and the Consequences

      • Ari Neuman, Aharon Aviram

      Pages 211-222

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.

• Home education
• home schooling
• alternative education
• apprenticeship
• children
• child
• psychology
• education
• learning
• model
• development
• educational research
• integration
• learning and instruction

"Paula Rothermel presents a collection of pertinent, valuable and thought provoking articles in an accessible way. Her work has already proven valuable in expert witness testimony and is certain to find its way on to the shelves of home education specialists." (Wendy Charles-Warner, The Journal of Personalised Education Now, 2015)

Andew McAvoy, Independent Scholar, UK Michael W. Apple, University of Wisconsin, USA Aharon Aviram, Ben-Gurion University, Israel T. Jameson Brewer, University of Illinois, USA Christian W. Beck, University of Oslo, Norway Samantha Eddis, Arizona State University, USA Cheryl Fields-Smith, University of Georgia, USA Erwin García López, National University of Colombia Madalen Goiria, University of the Basque Country, Spain Ulrike Hanemann, UNESCO, UK Nicky Hardenbergh, Independent Scholar, USA Glenda Jackson, Independent Scholar, Australia Christopher Lubienski, University of Illinois, USA Daniel Monk, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Sugata Mitra, Newcastle University, UK Ari Neuman, Western Galilee College, Israel Harriet Pattison, Institute of Education, University of London, UK Carlo Ricci, Nipissing University, Canada Leslie Safran Barson, Independent Scholar, UK Joke Sperling, Independent Scholar, The Netherlands Thomas Spiegler, Friedensau Adventist University, Germany Alan Thomas, Institute of Education, University of London, UK Noraisha Yusof, Independent Scholar, Saudi Arabia

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