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Peer reviewedVan Galen, Jane A. – Urban Review, 1987
Interviews with 23 parents from 16 families revealed the following broad explanations for choosing home schooling: (1) home schooling will strengthen their families; (2) schools teach values and beliefs that directly contradict those that they want their children to learn; and (3) only they understand their children's special educational needs.…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Relationship, Family School Relationship
Peer reviewedVan Galen, Jane A. – Urban Education, 1988
Interviews reveal that home schooling is both a pedagogical decision and a public declaration of the importance of the family. Parents' socialization into home schooling is defined by the political and legal climate of their state and school district. Restrictions of home schooling will not solve the parents' dissatisfaction with traditional…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Educational Resources, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Environment
Peer reviewedVan Galen, Jane A. – Education and Urban Society, 1988
Meetings of home schoolers were observed to determine parents' attitudes toward traditional education. Many parents, over time, grew to question the validity of their previous assumptions but remained firm in their belief that schools are not neutral and meritocratic dispensers of knowledge. (BJV)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Home Schooling, Ideology, Instruction
