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The Harms of Homeschooling? Where Are the Premises? |
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DATA-BASED RESEARCH has consistently revealed favorable things related to the modern homeschool movement for about 25 years. Theoretical philosophical research, on the other hand, argues conflicting things about home-educating families and students. For example, professor Robin West (2009) recently published a controversial piece entitled “The Harms of Homeschooling” that will be the main subject of this article. To set the stage for this discussion, a very brief summary of research on home education is important. Brian D. Ray, Volume 25, Number 3, 2010, p. 11-16. (In the “Perspectives – News and Comments” section of this journal which consists of articles that have not undergone peer review.) National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA,
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