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Direct linkHalsey, Katie – Oxford Review of Education, 2015
This essay explores the relationship between theories of domestic pedagogy as articulated in eighteenth-century conduct books, and fictional representations of home education in novels of the period. The fictional discussions of domestic pedagogy interrogate eighteenth-century assumptions about the innate superiority of a domestic education for…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Females, Eighteenth Century Literature, Novels
Sutherland, Gillian – Oxford Review of Education, 2015
Once societies embarked on programmes of mass education home schooling became essentially a middle-class project and remains so. This paper looks at the educational experiences of some lower middle class women at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for whom the resources of the middle-class home were simply not available. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Schooling, Educational Experience, Middle Class
Davies, Richard – Oxford Review of Education, 2015
Elective Home Education is a legal, minority approach to the compulsory education of children. I review the potential contribution of the historical analysis of "domestic pedagogies", presented in this Special Issue, for home education practice in the UK. By drawing on narratives of a period at the cusp of the perceived normalcy of…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Educational History, Educational Development, Educational Practices
de Bellaigue, Christina – Oxford Review of Education, 2015
This article examines the work of educationist Charlotte Mason (1842-1923) to explore the practice of home education in the late nineteenth century. Mason's work reflected and responded to the particular circumstances and concerns of her clientele. She provided a way for parents to compensate for the practical deficiencies of contemporary…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Unions, Parent Influence, Educational Practices
Crone, Rosalind – Oxford Review of Education, 2015
The transmission of knowledge and skills within the working-class household greatly troubled social commentators and social policy experts during the first half of the nineteenth century. To prove theories which related criminality to failures in working-class up-bringing, experts and officials embarked upon an ambitious collection of data on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Working Class, European History, Crime
Tuckness, Alex – Oxford Review of Education, 2010
John Locke is often taken to be a staunch defender of parents' rights in the realm of education. In fact, Locke's pedagogical reasons for preferring home education to school education do not necessarily apply to similar choices in modern contexts. Locke's political argument for defining education as a duty of parents rather than the state does not…
Descriptors: Parent Rights, Home Schooling, Philosophy, Parent Role
