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Informationen zum Autor Milton Gaither is Professor of Education at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. He is the author of American Educational History Revisited: A Critique of Progress (2003) and Homeschool: An American History (2008). Gaither has held several leadership roles for the History of Education Society and is a founder and board member of the International Center for Home Education Research. Klappentext For myriad reasons, more and more parents are choosing to educate their children at home--and not just in the United States. In recent years, home education has grown to become an established phenomenon around the world. The Wiley Handbook of Home Education is a comprehensive collection of the latest scholarship about all aspects of home education in the United States and abroad. Featuring contributions from top international academic researchers and scholars, readings serve both to synthesize the existing literature in the field and set an agenda for avenues of future study. Initial chapters emphasize themes relating to home education in the United States, examining its decades-old roots, historical development, and current demographics. Topics explored include legal issues, parental motivation, academic achievement, higher education, home-schooling of minority populations, and many more. Chapters in subsequent sections cover home education in Canada, Europe, the South Pacific, Africa, Asia, and other regions of the world. Particular attention is given to legal issues and the ways other countries and regions have produced home-educational experiences both similar to and different from those of the United States. Authoritative and illuminating, The Wiley Handbook of Home Education sheds important new light on a dynamic alternative educational movement begun in America that is rapidly spreading to all corners of the globe. Zusammenfassung The Wiley Handbook of Home Education is a comprehensive collection of the latest scholarship in all aspects of home education in the United States and abroad. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors vii Introduction to The Wiley Handbook of Home Education 1 Milton Gaither Part I Home Education in the United States 5 1 The History of Homeschooling 7 Milton Gaither 2 Using Survey Data Sets to Study Homeschooling 32 Eric Isenberg 3 Legal Issues in Homeschooling 59 Antony Barone Kolenc 4 The Calculus of Departure: Parent Motivations for Homeschooling 86 Joseph Murphy, Milton Gaither, and Christine E. Gleim 5 Academic Achievement: Making an Informed Choice about Homeschooling 121 Sandra Martin¿Chang and Kyle Levesque 6 Homeschooler Socialization: Skills, Values, and Citizenship 135 Robert Kunzman 7 Homeschoolers and Higher Education 157 Marc Snyder 8 Homeschooling Motherhood 186 Jennifer Lois 9 Homeschooling among Ethnic¿Minority Populations 207 Cheryl Fields¿Smith 10 Teaching the Child with Exceptional Needs at Home 222 Karen Hurlbutt¿Eastman 11 Homeschooling 2.0: An Overview of Online Learning in K-12 Education across the United States 246 Bryan Mann Part II Home Education Worldwide 269 12 Home Education in Canada 271 Christine Brabant and Marine Dumond 13 Home Education in the United Kingdom 303 Helen E. Lees and Fiona Nicholson 14 Common Themes in Australian and New Zealand Home Education Research 329 Glenda M. Jackson 15 Theories, Practices, and Environments of Learning and Home Education in Latin America 362 Erwin Fabián García López, Diego Fernando Barrera Tenorio, and Wills Emilio Alejandro Fonseca 16 The Legal Situation of Home Education in Europe 395 Henk Blo...
