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Sakarski, Gergana – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2023
Soft skills are key for the successful realisation of individuals in their personal, professional and social life, but scientific research conducted on the soft skills of homeschoolers is still scarce so far. One of the most frequent questions, when homeschooling is discussed concerns the presumed lack of social skills of homeschoolers. A common…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Soft Skills, Skill Development, Well Being
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Fields-Smith, Cheryl A. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Sixty plus years after Brown many Black families find equal educational opportunity through homeschooling, which has increased by 61.8% in recent years. Through a Black Feminist Theory lens, homeschooling has been conceived as a form of resistance to the perceived racism experienced by Black families in public schools in this Phenomenological…
Descriptors: Decision Making, One Parent Family, Blacks, African Americans
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Patterson, Margaret Becker – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2018
Despite a highly developed U.S. adult education system, 90% of adults aged 20 years and older considered the least educated did not participate recently in formal or nonformal education. What are nonparticipants' characteristics, learning backgrounds, and skill levels? What predicts their likelihood of "not" participating in recent…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Participation, Individual Characteristics, Probability