Homeschool - An American History

Informationen zum Autor Milton Gaither is Professor of Education at Messiah College, USA. Klappentext This is a lively account of one of the most important and overlooked themes in American education. Beginning in the colonial period and working to the present, Gaither describes in rich detail how the home has been used as the base for education of all kinds. The last five chapters focus especially on the modern homeschooling movement and offer the most comprehensive and authoritative account of it ever written. Readers will learn how and why homeschooling emerged when it did, where it has been, and where it may be going. Please visit Gaither's blog here: http://gaither.wordpress.com/homeschool-an-american-history/ Zusammenfassung This is a lively account of one of the most important and overlooked themes in American education. Beginning in the colonial period and working to the present! Gaither describes in rich detail how the home has been used as the base for education of all kinds. The last five chapters focus especially on the modern homeschooling movement and offer the most comprehensive and authoritative account of it ever written. Readers will learn how and why homeschooling emerged when it did! where it has been! and where it may be going. Please visit Gaither's blog here: http://gaither.wordpress.com/homeschool-an-american-history/ Inhaltsverzeichnis The Family State, 1600-1776 * The Family Nation: 1776-1860 * The Eclipse of the Fireside, 1865-1930 * Why Homeschooling Happened, 1945-1990 * Three Homeschooling Pioneers * The Changing of the Guard, 1983-1998 * Making it Legal * Homeschooling and the Return of Domestic Education, 1998-2008

Product details

• Authors: M Gaither, M. Gaither, Milton Gaither
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2008
• EAN: 9780230606005
• ISBN: 978-0-230-60600-5
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, Teaching, Sociology, Sociological Theory, Learning, History of Education, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Conservation Biology, Nature Conservation, teacher training, Learning & Instruction, Conservation of the environment, History of the Americas, Teaching and Teacher Education, Instruction, Education—History, America—History, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Instructional Psychology, American History;education;schooling