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Direct linkAdamson, Carrie – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2022
This paper presents a constructivist grounded theory on the decision-making process that UK home and alternative educators undertake and the related influencing factors. Twenty-one participants from a diverse range of backgrounds were interviewed between one and three times over a two-year period. Some were current home and alternative educators…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Parents as Teachers, Home Schooling
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
Gaither, Milton, Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2016
"The Wiley Handbook of Home Education" is a comprehensive collection of the latest scholarship in all aspects of home education in the United States and abroad. This book presents the latest findings on academic achievement of home-schooled children, issues of socialization, and legal argumentation about home-schooling and government…
Descriptors: Guides, Home Schooling, Academic Achievement, Socialization
McIntyre-Bhatty, K. – Education, Knowledge & Economy: A Journal for Education and Social Enterprise, 2007
During the last 2 years, Britain's Department for Education and Skills (DfES) has commissioned several pieces of research into various aspects of home education. These items of research have served to illustrate several of the most pressing local authority concerns with regard to the educational outcomes, socialisation and welfare of children…
Descriptors: Private Education, Home Schooling, Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment
Sheehy, Kieron; Bucknall, Sue – Learning, Media and Technology, 2008
This research captured the views of young people regarding their views of "how learning should be in the future". Four focus groups were run with different groups of school-age pupils. The ways in which technology was seen within these discussions were analysed. The findings noted that the explicit use of technological innovations, and…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Educational Technology, Futures (of Society), Educational Trends
