{"id":840,"date":"2013-09-17T13:25:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T13:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/?p=840"},"modified":"2014-02-10T19:20:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T19:20:46","slug":"a-question-of-resistance-why-educators-dont-like-homeschooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/?p=840","title":{"rendered":"A QUESTION OF RESISTANCE: Why Educators Don’t Like Homeschooling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Record: <\/strong>Blane Despr\u00e9s, “A Question of Resistance to Home Education and the Culture of School-Based Education” in Peabody Journal of Education<\/em> 88, no. 3 (2013): 365-377.<\/p>\n

Summary<\/strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0 Despr\u00e9s, President of Ripple Deep Consulting<\/a> in British Columbia, here tries to apply his systemic thinking model called the FoRSE Matrix to the question of public education’s resistance to home education.<\/p>\n

I think Despr\u00e9s’ original plan was to do a survey study of attitudes about homeschooling among public school personnel, but he “was unable to conduct a pilot study to generate hard data.”\u00a0 So in lieu of data he conducted a literature review, reducing the sources he read to various categories on his “FoRSE Matrix” that I believe Despr\u00e9s developed to help businesses look systemically at their operations to foster efficiency and success.<\/p>\n

His review revealed two reasons for the resistance of public school people to homeschooling.\u00a0 First are “philosophical ideals” like the view that all children should attend public school to foster social normalization, and second are “functionality problems” like enrollment declines that happen when children leave public schools for other options.\u00a0\u00a0 He also determined that institutional inertia also contributes, though he acknowledges that he hasn’t even proven that the resistance he’s explaining even exists.<\/p>\n

Appraisal: <\/strong><\/p>\n

This is without question the worst article I’ve ever read in an academic journal.\u00a0 The summary I just gave is my best effort to make something incoherent as clear as possible.\u00a0 The “research” design is absurd.\u00a0 His so-called lit review is laughable, consisting as it does of the most random assortment of odds and ends imaginable.\u00a0 His earliest source comes from 1838 and his most recent from 2002.\u00a0 There is no explanation given for why he chose the sources he did.\u00a0 They include memoirs, random newspaper articles, internet ephemera, and a smattering of books about public education, business, critical theory, and other topics.\u00a0 It’s just crazy.<\/p>\n

Despr\u00e9s’ write up is just as scattered as his collection of sources.\u00a0 One reads a section and wonders why it was there or why it followed what had gone before.\u00a0 There’s really no rational organization or coherent thesis, just a jumble of thoughts.\u00a0 One does get the vague sense that Despr\u00e9s doesn’t like institutional schools and likes homeschooling, but that’s about the most that can be said.\u00a0 The <\/em>Peabody Journal<\/em> should be embarrassed something like this appeared between its covers.<\/p>\n

Milton Gaither, Messiah College, author of Homeschool: An American History<\/a>\"\"<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer<\/strong>:\u00a0 The views expressed in reviews are not the official views of ICHER or of its members.\u00a0 For more information about ICHER\u2019s Reviews, please see the \u00ab\u00a0About these Reviews \u00bb Section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Record: Blane Despr\u00e9s, “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:\u00a0 Despr\u00e9s, President of Ripple Deep Consulting in British Columbia, here tries to apply … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[785,813,30,812],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-schools","tag-blane-despres","tag-british-columbia","tag-peabody-journal-of-education","tag-ripple-deep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}