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LEGITIMATE PERIPHERAL PARTICIPATION: How Commitment to Homeschooling Grows
Record: Leslie Safran, “Legitimate Peripheral Participation and Home Education” in Teaching and Teacher Education 26, no. 1 (2010): 107-112. Summary: Safran, a British researcher who has written a few other works on homeschooling and in 2008 completed her doctoral dissertation, … Continue reading
Posted in International, Parental Motivation, Socialization
Tagged 1996 Education Act, England, Great Britain, Jennifer Lois, John Holt, Lave, legitimate peripheral participation, Leslie Safran, Ruth Morton, Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation, Teaching and Teacher Education, United Kingdom, Wengar
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THE TEMPORAL EMOTION WORK OF MOTHERHOOD: How Homeschooling Mothers Deal with the Time Crunch
Record: Jennifer Lois, “The Temporal Emotion Work of Motherhood: Homeschoolers’ Strategies for Managing Time Shortage” in Gender and Society, 24, no. 4 (August 2010): 421-446. Summary: Lois, a professor of sociology at Western Washington University, here continues her work focusing … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Parental Motivation
Tagged Gender and Society, Jennifer Lois, problematic emotions, savoring, sequencing, Sharon Hays, temporal emotion work
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HOME EDUCATION IN THE POST COMMUNIST COUNTRIES: the Czech Republic
Record: Yvona Kostelecká, “Home Education in the Post Communist Countries: Case Study of the Czech Republic” in International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 3, no. 1 (October 2010). Available Here. Summary: Kostelecká, a member of the education faculty at Charles … Continue reading
Posted in International, Parental Motivation, Special Needs
Tagged Charles University, Czech Republic, International Electric Journal of Elementary Education, NCES, Yvona Kostelecka
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THE BUSINESS OF EDUCATION: Home Study Programs in the 1920s-1930s and Today
Record: Robert Hampel, “The Business of Education: Home Study at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin in the 1920s and 1930s.” in Teachers College Record 112, no. 9 (September 2010): 2496-2517. Summary: Hampel, a professor at the University of … Continue reading
Posted in College/Postsecondary, History, Public Schools
Tagged Columbia University, Nicholas Murray Butler, Robert Hampel, Teachers College Record, University of Deleware, University of Wisconsin
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IS HOME SCHOOLING ‘IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD?’: Divorce and Homeschooling
Record: Charles J. Russo, “Is Home Schooling ‘in the Best Interests of the Child?’ The Supreme Court of New Hampshire Answers – Not When Divorced Parents Disagree!” in Private School Monitor 33, no. 2 (Fall 2011). Summary: Russo, a prolific … Continue reading
Posted in Legal
Tagged Charles J. Russo, Gertler v. Gertler, In re Kurowski, Morgan v. Morgan, New Hampshire, Private School Monitor
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HOME EDUCATION: Three Types of Homeschoolers
Record: Ruth Morton, “Home Education: Constructions of Choice” in International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education 3, no. 1 (October 2010) Available Here. Summary: Morton, a doctoral student at the University of Warwick whose dissertation is a qualitative study of homeschooling … Continue reading
Posted in International, Parental Motivation
Tagged International Electric Journal of Elementary Education, Jane Van Galen, Mitchell Stevens, Ruth Morton, University of Warwick
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RACE AND EDUCATION AT THE CROSSROADS: A Hypothetical Thought Experiment
Record: Consuelo Valenzuela Lickstein, “Race and Education at a Crossroads: How Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 and Wisconsin v. Yoder Shed Light on the Potential Conflict Between the Black Homeschooling Movement and K-12 Affirmative … Continue reading
Posted in Legal, Public Schools, Race/Ethnicity
Tagged Brown v. Board of Education, Choate Hall, Consuelso Valenzuela Lickstein, Grutter v. Bollinger, Journal of Gender Race and Justice, Justice Roberts, Meyer v. Nebraska, Parents Involved, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, Stewart LLP, University of Iowa College of Law, Wisconsin v. Yoder
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RECOGNIZING AND REGULATING: Another Lawyer Considers Homeschooling Regulations
Record: Paul A. Alarcón, “Recognizing and Regulating Home Schooling in California: Balancing Parental and State Interests in Education” in Chapman Law Review, 13 (2010): 391-416. Summary: Alarcón here presents a summary of the recent In re Rachel L. and Jonathan … Continue reading
Posted in Legal, Policy/Regulation
Tagged California, Chapman Law Review, In re Jonothan L., In re Rachel L., In re Shinn, Judge Croskey, Paul A. Alarcon, People v. Turner
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EVIDENCE FOR HOMESCHOOLING: Three Lawyers Argue for Less Regulation of Homeschooling
Record: Tanya K. Dumas, Sean Gates, and Deborah R. Schwarzer, “Evidence for Homeschooling: Constitutional Analysis in Light of Social Science Research” in Widener Law Review, 16, no. 1 (September 2010): 63-87. [Abstract available here] Summary: The authors here are all … Continue reading
Posted in Legal, Policy/Regulation
Tagged Deborah R. Schwarzer, Gifted Homeschoolers Forum, Home School Researcher, Homeschool Association of California, In re Rachel L., Peabody Journal of Education, Sean Gates, Tanya K. Dumas, Widener Law Review
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