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British Researchers on Reading to Children

Posted in Family life, International Homeschooling, Islamic Homeschooling, public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Loh-Ludher on Homeschooled Malaysian Women

Posted in Family life, International Homeschooling, Islamic Homeschooling, tagged , , , , 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.  [...]

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Neil MacFarquhar on Muslim Homeschooling

Posted in Family life, Islamic Homeschooling, Politics of homeschooling, Socialization, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on June 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »

A recent New York Times piece  by Neil MacFarquhar titled “Resolute or Fearful, Many Muslims Turn to Homeschooling,” while not exactly educational research, does offer some hard-to-come-by data on homeschooling among Muslims.  It also raises important questions for the broader homeschooling movement.  Until more substantive research on homeschooling among American Muslims is produced, we will have to [...]

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