This post reviews Cynthia M. Villalba, “Home-Based Education in Sweden: Local Variations in Forms of Regulation” in Theory and Research in Education 7, no. 3 (November 2009): 277-296.
Villalba, who recently received her PhD from the Institute of International Education at Stockholm University (Dissertation title: Home Education in Sweden), here presents an engaging summary of the [...]
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Villalba on Homeschooling in Sweden
Posted in International Homeschooling, tagged Cynthia M. Villalba, Homeschooling in Sweden, Institute of International Education, insyn, Stockholm University, Swedish Homeschooling, Theory and Research in Education on December 14, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Seo on Homeschooling in South Korea
Posted in International Homeschooling, tagged Catholics, Christianity in South Korea, Deok-Hee Seo, education fever, Ethnography, Homeschooling in South Korea, Protestants, South Korea on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Deok-Hee Seo, “The Profitable Adventure of Threatened Middle-Class Families: An Ethnographic Study on Homeschooling in South Korea” in Asia Pacific Education Review 10, no. 3 (September 2009): 409-422
Seo, a professor at Chosun University in South Korea, here looks at the homeschooling experiences of four middle-class Korean families and situates these experiences in [...]
Park on Home Literacy Environments
Posted in International Homeschooling, Quantitative data, tagged Comparative Education, home environment, Hyunjoon Park, International Education, literacy, PIRLS, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post briefly reviews Hyunjoon Park, “Home Literacy Environments and Children’s Reading Performance: A Comparative Study of 25 Countries” in Educational Research and Evaluation 14, no. 6 (Winter 2008): 489-505
Park, a professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, here gives the results of an ambitious study of 25 countries aiming to determine the degree [...]
Varnham on Homeschooling in Australia and New Zealand
Posted in Homeschool Law, International Homeschooling, tagged Homeschooling in Australia, Homeschooling in New Zealand, Sally Varnham on October 14, 2008 | 19 Comments »
This post reviews Sally Varnham, “My Home, My School, My Island: Home Education in Australia and New Zealand” in Public Space: The Journal of Law and Social Justice 2 (2008): 1-30. [Available fulltext here]
Varnham, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, specializes in education law. Here she [...]
Meighan on John Holt
Posted in History of Homeschooling, International Homeschooling, tagged Casey Patrick Cochran, Growing Without Schooling, Homeschooling in Great Britain, John Holt, personalized learning, Roland Meighan, Susannah Sheffer on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Roland Meighan, John Holt (London: Continuum, 2007).
Roland Meighan, a British intellectual/activist and the driving force behind Educational Heretics Press, (whose website houses an archive of his articles), here provides a guide to the educational writings of John Holt, a leading American critic of public education in the 1960s, who in the late 1970s [...]
British Researchers on Reading to Children
Posted in Family life, International Homeschooling, Islamic Homeschooling, public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged Ann Williams, bilingual education, Clare Kelly, Eve Gregory, literacy, reading to children, siblings on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Clare Kelly, Eve Gregory, and Ann Williams, “Home to School to Home: Syncretised Literacies in Lingustic Minority Communities” in Ofelia Garcia and Colin Baker, eds., Bilingual Education: An Introductory Reader (Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2007).
This essay is one of several chapters in a comprehensive reader on bilingual education. The researchers compare and contrast [...]
Brynard on Homeschooling in South Africa
Posted in International Homeschooling, tagged Accelerated Christian Education (ACE), Homeshooling in South Africa, Susette Brynard on July 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This post reviews Susette Brynard, “Home Schooling as an Open-Learning Educational Challenge in South Africa” in South African Journal of Education 27, no. 1 (2007): 83-100.
Brynard, a lecturer in the Department of Comparative Education and Educational Management at the University of the Free State in South Africa, here provides an overview of the issue of [...]
Loh-Ludher on Homeschooled Malaysian Women
Posted in Family life, International Homeschooling, Islamic Homeschooling, tagged distance education, Lee Lee Loh-Ludher, Malaysia, Muslim homeschooling, tutoring on July 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This post reviews Lee Lee Loh-Ludher, “The Socioeconomic Context of Home-Based Learning by Women in Malaysia” in Distance Education 28, no. 2 (August 2007): 179-193.
Loh-Ludher, founder of the University for Education and Development in Battambang, Cambodia, here describes the challenges faced by poor women in Malaysia and the hope that home-based tutoring holds out for them. [...]
Stroobant on Homeschooling School-Resistant Children
Posted in International Homeschooling, Motherhood, public school and homeschool partnerships, research methodology, tagged deconstruction, Emma Stroobant, Michel Foucault, New Zeland homeschooling, Postmodernism, Qualitative research, school resistance, unschooling on July 23, 2008 | 10 Comments »
This post reviews Emma Stroobant, “Dancing to the Music of Your Heart: Home Schooling the School-Resistant Child” (Ph.D. Thesis, University of Auckland, 2006). (Available fulltext here)
Stroobant, a doctoral candidate at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, here offers as her Ph.D. thesis a challenge to the dominant medical model that pathologizes the phenomenon of [...]
Jackson on Homeschoolers’ Transition to Formal Schools
Posted in International Homeschooling, public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged Accelerated Christian Education (ACE), Autonomy, Glenda Jackson, homeschooling and public education, Homeschooling in Australia, Rob Reich on July 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This post reviews Glenda Jackson, “Home Education Transitions with Formal Schooling: Student Persspectives” in Issues in Educational Research 17 (2007) (Available fulltext here)
Jackson, a doctoral candidate at Monash University in Australia, here conducts three case studies of homeschooled students transitioning to and from formal schools.
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