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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

Religious Education in Home Schools: Goals-Outcomes Mismatch?

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Cizek, Gregory J. – Religious Education, 1994

Maintains that the past two decades have seen a remarkable growth in alternative education options, particularly home schooling. Asserts that the parents' religious and moral beliefs are primary reasons for the home schooling movement. Reviews research on home schooling and calls for more relevant lines of inquiry. (CFR)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education