Category Archives: International

HOME EDUCATION, SCHOOL, TRAVELLERS: Migrant Populations and Home Education

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Milton Gaither

Record: Kate D’Arcy, “Home Education, School, Travellers and Educational Inclusion” in British Journal of Sociology of Education 35, no. 5 (2014): 818-835. [Preview Here] Summary:  D’Arcy, a Lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire, here offers a rare look into the … Continue reading →

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EDUCATION WITHOUT SCHOOLS: Home Education in the UK, part 2

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Milton Gaither

Record: Helen E.  Lees, Education Without Schools: Discovering Alternatives (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2014). [Abstract Here] Summary: Lees, a Visiting Research Fellow in Education and Theology at York St. John University in England and founding editor of the online journal … Continue reading →

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EDUCATION WITHOUT SCHOOLS: Home Education in the UK, part 1

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Milton Gaither

Record: Helen E.  Lees, Education Without Schools: Discovering Alternatives (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2014). [Abstract Here] Summary: Lees, a Visiting Research Fellow in Education and Theology at York St. John University in England and founding editor of the online journal … Continue reading →

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EFFECT OF HOME-BASED EDUCATION: Impact on Scientific Concepts among Six-Year Olds in Turkey

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Milton Gaither

Record: Özlem Yurt and Serap Demiriz, “Effect of Home-Based Education Program on Six-Year-Old Children’s Acquisition of Scientific Concept” in International Journal of Human Sciences 11, no. 1 (2014): 1-19. Summary: As this article is written in Turkish and I know … Continue reading →

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SCHOOL ATTENDANCE VS. HOME EDUCATION: Can Germany Loosen Up about Home Education?

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Milton Gaither

Record: Franz Reimer, “School Attendance as a Civic Duty vs. Home Education as a Human Right” in International Journal of Elementary Education 3, no. 1 (October 2010): 5-15. Summary: This is the first article in a special issue of the … Continue reading →

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LEGAL STATUS: Home Education in Post Communist Countries

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Milton Gaither

Record: Yvona Kostelecká, “The Legal Status of Home Education in Post-Communist Countries of Central Europe” in International Review of Education 58, no. 4 (August 2012): 445-463. Summary:  Kostelecká, on the faculty of education at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, and … Continue reading →

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CONFUCIAN WORK AND HOMESCHOOLING: A Look at Home Education in China

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Milton Gaither

Record: Xiaoming Sheng, “Confucian Work and Homeschooling: A Case Study of Homeschooling in Shanghai” in Education and Urban Society, XX, No. X (2013), 1-17. [abstract here] Summary: The article under review here is a condensed version of a 2011 work … Continue reading →

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HOMESCHOOLING BASED ON TECHNOLOGY IN MALAYSIA

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Milton Gaither

Record: Norlidah Alias, Mohd. Nazri Abdul Rahman, Siraj Saedah, and Ruslina Ibrahim, “A Model of Homeschooling Based on Technology in Malaysia” in The Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology 1, no. 3 (July 2013): 10-16 [Available Here] Summary:  The authors … Continue reading →

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THE LONG WAY HOME: Recent Developments in Home Education Law in Spain

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record:  María J. Valero Estarellas, “The Long Way Home: Recent Developments in the Spanish Case Law on Home Education” in Oxford Journal of Law and Religion (2013): 1-25. [Available here]. Summary:  Estarellas, a professor at Centro Universitario Villanueva, Universidad Complutense de … Continue reading →

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DOMESTIC EDUCATION IN 19TH CENTURY BRAZIL

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record: Caria Celi Chaves Vasconcelos, “Domestic Education in Nineteenth Century Brazil: Aspects of European Influence on the Performance of Tutors and Private Teachers” in Social and Education History 2, no. 1 (2013): 1-22. Summary:  Vasconcelos, a professor of History of … Continue reading →

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