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Direct linkFensham-Smith, Amber Joy – Journal of Pedagogy, 2021
Home-schooling, or 'elective home education' (EHE) as it is more commonly known in the UK, invites contestation and controversies. Drawing on a UK-wide study of 242 families this paper explores a collection of EHE pedagogic practices within the socially situated contexts of doing everyday life. Through an application of Bernsteinian ideas, the…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Teaching Methods, Social Environment, Personal Autonomy
De Carvalho, Eloise; Skipper, Yvonne – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2019
A common perception of home education is that despite potential beneficial educational outcomes, children who are home educated lack social experiences and therefore show poor social development. However, previous research in this area suggests that home educated children demonstrate a range of age-appropriate social skills. This research has…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries
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
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
