International Center for Home Education Research Reviews

TYPES OF SUPPORT: Homeschooling Pedagogy and Student Motivation

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record: Debra A. Bell, “Types of Home Schools and Need-Support for Achievement Motivation” (PhD Dissertation, Temple University, 2012) [Avaliable Here]

Summary:

Bell is a homeschooling veteran with a strong internet presence and full speaking schedule at homeschooling events. In the midst of all of that activity she has also found time to complete a doctorate in education. This is her thesis.

Bell asks what homeschooling pedagogy might contribute to the literature on motivating students. Continue reading →

Posted in Academic Achievement, Pedagogy, Socialization | Tagged Autonomy, Competence, Debra A. Bell, Dissertation, JohnMarshall Reeve, PALS, Patterns of Adaptive Learning Scales, PIS, Positive and Negative Conditional Regard Scale, Problems in School Questionnaire, Relatedness, SDT, Self Determination Theory, Temple University | Comments Off

State Homeschooling Enrollment Data 2013

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Milton Gaither

On my old site I occasionally posted all the available data on enrollment compiled by the various states in the USA. This data is not the best for several reasons. First, many states do not collect data on enrollments at all. Second, even those that do often do so on an ad hoc basis, and the results can be unreliable between counties and from year to year. Third, even if a state has done its best to collect accurate data, an unknown percentage of homeschoolers simply do not register with the state.

With those caveats in mind, we can nevertheless learn some things from this data, especially by attending to trends over time. Continue reading →

Posted in Research Methodology | Tagged Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, State data, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia | Comments Off

HOMEWARD BOUND: A Journalist Chronicles Hip Domesticity

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record: Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2013).

Matchar is a freelance journalist who has written for many prominent publications. This is her first book.

Summary:

Matchar’s book is a lively look at several trends among mostly middle class, white, politically progressive young women in the United States. These trends, which range from cooking from scratch with local, organic food, to handicrafts, to at-home businesses, to homeschooling, are all illustrative of a larger movement among these young women toward what Matchar calls “the New Domesticity.” Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, Parental Motivation | Tagged Attachment Parenting, Emily Matchar, Etsy, Great Recession, Home Birth, Intensive Parenting, New Domesticity, Re-Skilling Movement, Robots, Unschooling | Comments Off

LATIN IN THE HOMESCHOOLING COMMUNITY: Results of a Large-Scale Survey

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record:

Christine Hahn, “Latin in the Homeschooling Community,” in Teaching Classical Languages 4, no. 1 (Fall 2012): 26-51. [Available Here]

Hahn is a homeschooling mother and owner of Latin for Homeschoolers, an online tutoring service.

Summary:

To date there has been very little research on the very popular form of homeschooling known as classical education. Peter Leithart has explained the growth of the classical movement at the macro level. Anthony and Burroughs have provided a careful study of four families associated with one classical cooperative. Hahn’s study here goes well beyond anything that has been published in the past, giving us our first quantitative look at classical homeschoolers. Continue reading →

Posted in Curriculum | Tagged Cambridge University Press, Christine Hahn, Classical, Classical Academic Press, Classical Christian, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dorothy Sayers, Kenneth V. Anthony, Latin, Memoria Press, Peter Leithart, Quantitative data, Susie Burroughs, Teaching Classical Languages, The Lost Tools of Learning, trivium, Unschooling | Comments Off

DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS: A Peek Inside Four Classical Homeschools

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record:

Kenneth V. Anthony and Susie Burroughs, “Day to Day Operations of Home School Families: Selecting from a Menu of Educational Choices to meet Students’ Individual Instructional Needs.” in International Education Studies, 5, no. 1 (February 2012): 1-17. [Available fulltext here]

Anthony, an instructor at Mississippi University for Women, and Burroughs, a professor of education at Mississippi State, here describe the daily activities of four homeschooling families, all of whom are part of the same classical education co-op in a “southeastern U.S.” state, which I presume to be Mississippi.

Continue reading →

Posted in Curriculum, Pedagogy | Tagged classical education, homogeneity sample, International Education Studies, Kenneth V. Anthony, Mississippi, Mississippi State University, Mississippi University for Women, Outcomes-Based Education, Portfolio Assessment, Progressive Education, Susie Burroughs, Tim Tebow Bill | Comments Off

THE NEW CLASSICAL SCHOOLING: A Summary and Appraisal

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record:

Peter J. Leithart, “The New Classical Schooling” in Intercollegiate Review 43, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 3-12. (Available fulltext here)

Leithart, a professor at New Saint Andrews University in Moscow, Idaho, is well-placed to chronicle the emerging classical Christian Education movement. He has long been associated with The Logos School and Trinity Reformed Church in Moscow, the seedbed of the movement. In this article Leithart traces the history of the movement and discusses its underlying philosophical rationale. Continue reading →

Posted in Curriculum | Tagged A Beka Book, Alpha Omega, Association of Classical Christian Schools, Benjamin Rush, Bob Jones Complete, Charles Evans, Classical Christian Education, Classical Christian Home Educators, classical education, Classics, Dialectic, Dorothy L. Sayers, Douglas Wilson, Focus on the Family, Grammar, James Dobson, John Dewey, Ken Myers, Logic, Logos School, Lost Tools of Learning, Mars Hill Audio Journal, New Saint Andrews University, Peter J. Leithart, Quadrivium, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rhetoric, Robert Littlejohn, Society for Classical Learning, Susan Wise Bauer, The Lost Tools of Learning, The National Review, trivium | Comments Off

INFORMAL HOME EDUCATION: A Philosophical Rationale for Liberated Pedagogy

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record:

Alan Thomas and Harriet Pattison, “Informal Home Education: Philosophical Aspirations Put Into Practice” in Studies in Philosophy and Education 32(2): 141-154 (2013) [Available Here]

British researchers Thomas and Pattison are frequent collaborators, most significantly on the 2008 revision of Thomas’ book How Children Learn at Home. In this article they draw on some of their earlier empirical research to make several normative claims about informal home-based learning. Continue reading →

Posted in Curriculum | Tagged Alan Thomas, Autonomous Learning, Harriet Pattison, Informal Home Education, J. C. Blokhuis, John Dewey, Natural Learning, Osmotic, Randall Curren, Unschooling | Comments Off

HOMESCHOOLING IN AMERICA: A Book-Length Survey of Homeschooling Research

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record:

Joseph Murphy, Homeschooling in America: Capturing and Assessing the Movement (Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, 2012).

Murphy, Associate Dean at Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University and author of many, many books and articles on a wide range of topics, here provides a remarkable synthesis of nearly the entire corpus of homeschooling research published from the 1980s to the present. Continue reading →

Posted in Academic Achievement, Parental Motivation, Pedagogy, Socialization | Tagged Cardus Education Survey, Jennifer Lois, Joseph Murphy, National Center for Education Statistics, NCES, Peabody College of Education, Vanderbilt University | Comments Off

QUIVERFULL: A Journalist’s Account of a Homeschooling Sub-Culture, Part 3

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Milton Gaither

This post is the final installment of my treatment of Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement.

In my first post I summarized the book’s content. In my second post I offered a few critiques and generalizations. Here I’d like to offer some speculations about the movement’s future, drawing on a few personal experiences in the process. Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, Parental Motivation | Tagged Albert Mohler, Amish, Christian Right, Doug Phillips, Gary North, Geoffrey Botkin, God's Harvard, Half-Way Covenant, Hanna Rosin, Harvard College, Jr., Kathryn Joyce, Michael Farris, Mormons, Old Order Mennonite, Patriarchy, Patrick Henry College, Protestantism, Puritans, Quiverfull, R.C. Sproul, Reconstructionism, Religious Right, Rousas J. Rushdoony, Rousas Rushdoony, Southern Baptist, Unitarianism, Yale Divinity School | Comments Off

QUIVERFULL: A Journalist’s Account of A Homeschooling Sub-Culture, Part 2

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Milton Gaither

This post continues my review of Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement.

In part 1 I summarized Joyce’s book. Here I will offer three criticisms and then try to generalize a bit from her data. In part 3 I’ll offer some predictions for the future of the Patriarchy movement. Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, Parental Motivation | Tagged Autonomy, birthrate, democracy, Family Wage, feminism, Kathryn Joyce, megachurches, Patriarchy, Pippa Norris, Quiverfull, Ronald Inglehart, Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide, Sexual Revolution, The Atlantic | Comments Off

International Center for Home Education Research Reviews

TYPES OF SUPPORT: Homeschooling Pedagogy and Student Motivation

State Homeschooling Enrollment Data 2013

HOMEWARD BOUND: A Journalist Chronicles Hip Domesticity

LATIN IN THE HOMESCHOOLING COMMUNITY: Results of a Large-Scale Survey

DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS: A Peek Inside Four Classical Homeschools

THE NEW CLASSICAL SCHOOLING: A Summary and Appraisal

INFORMAL HOME EDUCATION: A Philosophical Rationale for Liberated Pedagogy

HOMESCHOOLING IN AMERICA: A Book-Length Survey of Homeschooling Research

QUIVERFULL: A Journalist’s Account of a Homeschooling Sub-Culture, Part 3

QUIVERFULL: A Journalist’s Account of A Homeschooling Sub-Culture, Part 2

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