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Download full textRothermel, Paula; Fiddy, Alison – Online Submission, 2001
Home-schooling is growing in popularity. However, although it is legal for children to be educated at home, there are difficulties associated with defining what constitutes home-education, and who falls within the category of the "home-educated". (Contains 6 endnotes.) [This article has been published as: Rothermel, P. and Fiddy, A. (2001) "The…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Educational Policy, Definitions, Institutional Role
Rothermel, Paula – Online Submission, 2000
Should school be a place where children go because they want to go? Yes. Should school be a place where children only go if they want to? Yes. This paper questions the way that we educate our children, taking evidence, not from a school based perspective, but from research (Rothermel 1999a) into those families who choose not to use the system…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Foreign Countries, Children, Standards
