This article responds to Poutiatine's (2009) "What is Transformational?: Nine Principles Toward an Understanding Transformational Process for Transformational Leadership" by relating home schooling environments as lab schools for developing transformational leaders. Although many families select home schooling for improved academic progress or…

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…

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…