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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"home schooling"”.
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Parental Reasons for Home Schooling
… of this study is to examine parental reasons for home schooling their children. Participants were parents in a county north of the San Francisco Bay Area who made the decision to home school their children. Parents were asked to participate in an unstructured interview where they discussed their …
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Self-Concept in Home-Schooling Children
<p>The home school appears to be in a renaissance. This national study sought to provide an empirical base upon which to formulate viable decisions regarding homeschooling children. The study considered homeschoolers in grades four through twelve. The randomized sample yielded 224 qualified …
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Selected aspects of home-schooling as reported by home-schooling parents and reported with perceptions of Indiana public school superintendents and principals of home-schooling in Indiana
… and principals to provide special services to home-school families. A second purpose of the study was to identify the services Indiana home-school families would use if available from the public schools.Perceptions Indiana public school superintendents (N=97) and principals (N=404) have of …
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Learner leadership development within home-schooling context
… leadership development takes place during one’s schooling years. The question I asked was: How does learner leadership development happen in the home-schooling environment? This question led to the research in this paper. Literature explored in this study include, among others, work by R.E. Sacks …
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The Effects of Home Schooling on the Developmment of Social Skills
<p>One reason parents may choose to home school their children is that they believe that there is a general lack of discipline in public schools and a decline in the quality of a public education. Although there is validity to this choice, there are often negative stereotypes that are associated …
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A Decade of Home Schooling in Saskatchewan, Canada (1984-1994): A Case Study
… diversity of cultures, lifestyles, and needs of home-schooling families compelled the public educational sector to make available educational alternatives. The purpose of this study was to build upon previous research (Hill, 1988) by interviewing a sample of the same families and their children …
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The Home Schooling Movement in the United States: Historical Development, Contemporary Status and Legal Issues
Public schooling is usually the means by which children are socialized and enculturated, as they transmit the essential cultural knowledge and core values of a given society. However, this approach can become difficult when a society cannot agree on what shared values and knowledge should actually …
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Home schooling in view of John Calvin : a study in education and communion of saints /
… the tension that has emerged around the rise of home schooling in a faith-community strongly committed to establishing and maintaining day schools in the tradition of John Calvin. It aims to identify and understand factors that contributed to this tension and to find ways to bridge, diffuse, …
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Home Schooling in Illinois: A Study of the Perceptions of the State Regional Superintendents of Schools
Little research has been done on home schooling in the State of Illinois. There have been studies which have shown positive outcomes on the part of home schooled youngsters. These studies have been conducted with willing, conscientious, and successful parents. This study intended to provide another …
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Dancing to the music of your heart: home schooling the school-resistant child. A constructivist account of school refusal
… disorder for which therapy is ‘indicated’ and home schooling is ‘contraindicated’. However, I argue that the psychiatric/psychological classifications commonly used to identify school resistance (i.e. ‘school phobia’ and ‘school refusal’) are socio-historical constructs that function to …
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A study of ways home schooling families in southwest Virginia believe public schools can better interface and assist families who choose to home school their children
As more and more families opt to home school their children, public schools are being faced with the need to know more about the families that home school their children within their division because many of these children will later enroll in public school. The purpose of this study was to …
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The relationship of instructional approach to creativity in home-schooled children
This study surveyed a nationwide sample of home-schooling parents and their children and investigated two questions: (1) What are the differences in instructional approaches used by home-schooling parents? (2) Is the creativity of home-schooled children related to differences in the instructional …
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Reasons Seventh-day Adventist Parents Gave for Not Sending Their Children to Seventh-day Adventist Elementary and Secondary Schools
… were selected using criterion sampling—non-home-schooling parents, home- schooling parents, and administrators. Data collection occurred through in-depth interviews, focus groups, and a one-question survey. The interviews were audiotaped. The tapes were transcribed verbatim, coded, and …
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Understanding Parental Motivation To Home School: A Qualitative Case Study
… little educational research has focused on home schooling. Since most students are educated in public schools, parents’ choice of other educational alternatives is often perceived as a deviation from the societal norm. Friends and neighbors of parents who home school rarely understand their …
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