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Direct linkDavies, Scott; Aurini, Janice – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2003
Homeschooling is becoming increasingly popular in Canada. Drawing on a variety of secondary sources and our own data from the province of Ontario, we advance three arguments. First, homeschooling is gaining legitimacy from the increasingly pluralistic nature of educational politics. Second, the lobbying tactics of homeschool advocates increasingly…
Descriptors: Individualism, Parent Rights, Home Schooling, Foreign Countries
Aurini, Janice; Davies, Scott – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2005
Homeschooling is enjoying new-found acceptance in North America. Drawing on a variety of secondary sources and our own data from Ontario, Canada, we find that homeschooling is growing steadily, and is becoming an increasingly legitimated form of education. To understand these changes, we review prevailing sociological explanations that focus on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Schooling, Human Capital, Private Education
