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Family Unity Objectives of Parents Who Teach Their Children: Ideological and Pedagogical Orientations to Home Schooling.

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Mayberry, Maralee; Knowles, J. Gary – Urban Review, 1989

Examines parents who teach their children at home. While families have complex motives for home schooling, a common factor is parents' desire to maintain or further develop family unity, and to resist the effects of urbanization and modernization on the family. Suggests benefits of home/public school partnerships. (AF)

Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Family (Sociological Unit), Family School Relationship

Home Schooling: Parents as Educators.

Mayberry, Maralee; And Others – 1995

Acknowledging the growing trend to educate school-aged children at home, this book provides a detailed account of home schooling, providing a vision of home education that reflects its multidimensional nature. The book consists of seven chapters: (1) "Learning about Home Schools" describes the research study from which this book is drawn…

Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Cooperation, Court Litigation, Demography