Family Ties - Relationships, Socialization and Home Schooling

Relying on a decade-long participant observation study, this book focuses on the salience of parent-child relationships for home schooling. Those experiences with traditional schools emerge as a major motive for home schooling. The quality of the relationships that develop between parents and children are the major predictor of a successful home schooling experience. Comparing the socialization between traditional schooling and home schools, Family Ties: Relationships, Socialization and Home Schooling investigates significant controversies in these two separate environments. Professor Gary Wyatt is able to represent a parent with both experiences and contends to dispel the typical home schooling critiques. The efforts of home schooling parents to negotiate favorable identities with others and the techniques used to manage the anxiety associated with this unconventional lifestyle are explored.

List of contents

Part 1 Preface Chapter 2 School's Out Chapter 3 Another Brick in the Wall Chapter 4 The Road Less Traveled Chapter 5 The "S" Word Chapter 6 Doubts and Fears Chapter 7 Challenging Assumptions Part 8 References Part 9 Index Part 10 About the Author

About the author

By Gary Wyatt

Product details

• Authors: Gary Wyatt, Wyatt Gary
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.12.2007
• EAN: 9780761839118
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-3911-8
• No. of pages: 65
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Home Schooling, EDUCATION / Student Life & Student Affairs, Organization & management of education, Home Schooling, Educational administration & organization, Open learning, home learning, distance education