Tag Archives: Peabody Journal of Education

CHILD TORTURE AS A FORM OF CHILD ABUSE: Homeschooling’s Role

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Milton Gaither

Record: Barbara L. Knox, Suzanne P. Starling, Kenneth W. Feldman, Nancy D. Kellogg, Lori D. Frasier, and Suzanna L. Tiapula, “Child Torture as a Form of Child Abuse” in Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma 7, (2014): 37-49. Summary:  The authors, affiliated … Continue reading →

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TOLERANCE AND LIBERTY: Michael Farris Defends Homeschooling

Posted on September 24, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record: Michael Farris, “Tolerance and Liberty: Answering the Academic Left’s Challenge to Homeschooling Freedom” in Peabody Journal of Education 88, no. 3 (2013): 393-406. Summary:  Farris, the United States’ most influential homeschooling leader for the past 25 years, here summarizes … Continue reading →

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A QUESTION OF RESISTANCE: Why Educators Don’t Like Homeschooling

Posted on September 17, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record: Blane Després, “A Question of Resistance to Home Education and the Culture of School-Based Education” in Peabody Journal of Education 88, no. 3 (2013): 365-377. Summary:  Després, President of Ripple Deep Consulting in British Columbia, here tries to apply … Continue reading →

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HOSTILITY OR INDIFFERENCE? Why There’s not More Homeschooling Research

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record: Charles Howell, “Hostility or Indifference? The Marginalization of Homeschooling in the Educational Profession” in Peabody Journal of Education 88, no. 3 (2013): 355-364. Summary: Howell, a philosopher of education and Dean of Beeghly College of Education at Youngstown State … Continue reading →

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WHY WE NEED HOMESCHOOLING: A Critique of Democratic Education

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record: Perry L. Glanzer, “Saving Democratic Education from Itself: Why We Need Homeschooling” in Peabody Journal of Education 88, no. 3 (2013): 342-354. Summary: Glanzer, an education professor at Baylor University, here argues that homeschooling provides a helpful corrective to … Continue reading →

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CONFRONTATION AND COOPERATION: Public Schools and Homeschooling

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record: Donna M. Johnson, “Confrontation and Cooperation: The Complicated Relationship between Homeschoolers and Public Schools” in Peabody Journal of Education 88 (2013): 298-308. [Preview here] Summary:  Johnson, an education professor at Dakota Wesleyan University, here summarizes a wide range of … Continue reading →

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HOMESCHOOLING AND SOCIALIZATION REVISITED

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record: Richard G. Medlin, “Homeschooling and the Question of Socialization Revisited,” in Peabody Journal of Education 88, no. 3 (2013): 284-297. Summary: Medlin, a psychology professor at Stetson University, here continues a line of inquiry he began in one of the … Continue reading →

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RESISTING THE STATUS QUO: Black Homeschoolers in Atlanta and Washington DC

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record: Cheryl Fields-Smith and Monica Wells Kisura, “Resisting the Status Quo: The Narratives of Black Homeschoolers in Metro-Atlanta and Metro-DC” in Peabody Journal of Education 88, no. 3 (2013): 265-283. Summary:  Fields-Smith of the University of Georgia, whose pathbreaking work … Continue reading →

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New Homeschooling-themed Issue of the PEABODY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Every so often an academic journal decides to devote an entire issue to the topic of homeschooling.  Here is a list of such themed issues: International Journal of Elementary Education 3, no. 1 (October 2010). Theory and Research in Education … Continue reading →

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EVIDENCE FOR HOMESCHOOLING: Three Lawyers Argue for Less Regulation of Homeschooling

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Milton Gaither

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 →

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