Monthly Archives: November 2012

EXPERIENCES OF PARENTS: Autism Spectrum Disorder and Homeschooling

Record: Karen S. Hurlbutt, “Experiences of Parents Who Homeschool Their Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders” in Developmental Disabilities 26, no. 4 (December 2011): 239-249. Summary: Hurlbutt, who now goes by the name of Karen Eastman, is a Special Education professor … Continue reading

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HOMESCHOOLING PARENTS: Practices and Beliefs about Vaccinations

Record: Elizabeth L. Thorpe, et al., “Homeschooling Parents’ Practices and Beliefs about Childhood Immunizations” in Vaccine, 30, no. 6 (February 2012): 1149-1153. Summary: This paper, written by a group of physicians and medical researchers, noting the rise both in occurrences … Continue reading

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LINKING PARENTAL MOTIVATIONS: Comparing Parents who Homeschool with Those who Don’t

Record: Christa L. Ice and Kathleen V. Hoover-Dempsey, “Linking Parental Motivations for Involvement and Student Proximal Achievement Outcomes in Homeschooling and Public Schooling Settings” in Education and Urban Society 43, no. 3 (May 2011): 339-369. [Abstract available here] Summary: Hoover-Dempsey … Continue reading

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EDUCATION ON THE HOME FRONT: The European Union and Home Education

Record: Colin Koons, “Education on the Home Front: Home Education in the European Union and the Need for Unified European Policy.” Indiana International and Comparative Law Review, 20, no. 1 (2010): 145-174. Summary: Koons, a recent graduate from Indiana University … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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