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Explaining Home Education: Parents' Accounts of Their Decisions to Teach Their Own Children.

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Van Galen, Jane A. – Urban Review, 1987

Interviews with 23 parents from 16 families revealed the following broad explanations for choosing home schooling: (1) home schooling will strengthen their families; (2) schools teach values and beliefs that directly contradict those that they want their children to learn; and (3) only they understand their children's special educational needs.…

Descriptors: Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Relationship, Family School Relationship

Family Unity Objectives of Parents Who Teach Their Children: Ideological and Pedagogical Orientations to Home Schooling.

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Mayberry, Maralee; Knowles, J. Gary – Urban Review, 1989

Examines parents who teach their children at home. While families have complex motives for home schooling, a common factor is parents' desire to maintain or further develop family unity, and to resist the effects of urbanization and modernization on the family. Suggests benefits of home/public school partnerships. (AF)

Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Family (Sociological Unit), Family School Relationship