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 homeschooling in the South African context, interpreting it as a viable form of “Open Learning.” (more…)
Posted in Uncategorized on July 29, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Just a note for readers of this blog: Next week our family is going away on vacation and after that it will be time to get ready for the upcoming fall semester at my college, so I will not have the kind of time I’ve had over the summer to compose these blog entries. I’ll still update the blog as much as I can, hopefully at least once a week, but definitely not daily as I’ve been doing for the past few weeks. Thanks to everyone who has been stopping by!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dana Hanley, Homeschool: an American History, principleddiscovery.com on July 28, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Dana Hanley of principleddiscovery.com has an online radio show which can be accessed here. Today at 2:30 I’ll be talking with her about my book Homeschool: An American History. The show is archived, so you can catch it any time.
Posted in Classics, Curriculum, tagged Association of Classical Christian Schools, Charles Evans, Classical Christian Education, Classical Christian Home Educators, classical education, Classics, Dorothy L. Sayers, Douglas Wilson, Ken Myers, Logos School, Lost Tools of Learning, Mars Hill Audio Journal, Peter J. Leithart, Robert Littlejohn, Susan Wise Bauer on July 25, 2008| 1 Comment »
This post reviews Peter J. Leithart, “The New Classical Schooling” in Intercollegiate Review 43, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 3-12. (Available fulltext here)
Leithart, a professor at New Saint Andrews University in Moscow, Idaho, is well-placed to chronicle the emerging classical Christian Education movement. He has long been associated with The Logos school and Trinity Reformed Church in Moscow (where he now serves as pastor), the seedbed of the movement. In this article Leithart traces the history of the movement and discusses its underlying philosophical rationale. (more…)
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. (more…)
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| 14 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 “school resistance”–the overwhelming fear of school and refusal to attend by some children. Rather than medicating such children and forcing them to attend school, Stroobant looks at homeschooling as an alternative therapy. (more…)
Posted in Motherhood, Parental motivation, public school and homeschool partnerships, research methodology, tagged Lee SmithBattle, pregnant teens, teen mothers, tutoring on July 22, 2008| 2 Comments »
This post reviews Lee SmithBattle, “‘I Wanna Have a Good Future:’ Teen Mothers’ Rise in Educational Aspirations, Competing Demands, and Limited School Support.” in Youth and Society 38, no. 3 (March 2007): 348-371.
SmithBattle, a professor at the St. Louis University School of Nursing, here describes how pregnancy and childbirth often serve as motivators for young teens to raise their educational aspirations. (more…)
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. (more…)
Posted in History of Homeschooling, Homeschool Law, Parental motivation, Politics of homeschooling, Quantitative data, research methodology, tagged African American homeschooling, Casey Patrick Cochran, Diffusion Research, Georgia, Minorities and homeschooling, Race and homeschooling, Tal Levy on July 18, 2008| 5 Comments »
This post reviews Tal Levy, “Homeschooling and Racism” in Journal of Black Studies (November 2007): 1-19. (Available fulltext here).
Levy, a political science professor at Marygrove College in Detroit, here offers 13 hypothetical reasons why various states passed homeschool legislation and puts each hypothesis to the test to see if it really explains the expansion of homeschooling. (more…)
A second, fully revised edition of my 2008 book Homeschool: An American History, was published in March of 2017. Get it here!
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