This post is the first in a series reviewing the recent articles published in the November 2009 issue of Theory and Research in Education. The article under review is Michael S. Merry and Charles Howell, “Can Intimacy Justify Home Education?”
Merry, professor of philosophy of education at the University of Amsterdam and author of an important recent book on Islamic schooling, and Charles Howell, a philosopher of education at Northern Illinois University who has published many articles on homeschooling (most of them in Brian Ray’s Home School Researcher), here team up for a vigorous argument for intimacy as a guiding value in homeschooling that can justify the practice. Here’s the argument in a nutshell: (more…)
A second, fully revised edition of my 2008 book Homeschool: An American History, was published in March of 2017. 
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Homeschooling Research Notes 