The Home Education Movement in Context, Practice, and Theory

Susan A. McDowell, Ed.D., and Brian D. Ray, Ph.D., Editors

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This book is a special double-issue of the Peabody Journal of Education (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee) on home schooling is a unique book. It covers:

• Socialization
  
• Academic achievement
  
• History of home schooling
  
• Population growth of the educational alternative
  
• Arguments for home schooling
  
• Arguments against home schooling
  
• Much more

The titles and authors of the articles follow:

1. The Home Education Movement in Context, Practice, and Theory: Editors\' Introduction, by Susan A. McDowell (Vanderbilt University) and Brian D. Ray (National Home Education Research Institute)
2. Pluralism to Establishment to Dissent: The Religious and Educational Context of Homeschooling, by James C. Carper (University of South Carolina)
3. Home Schooling and the Future of Public Education, by Paul T. Hill (University of Washington, Seattle)
4. From Confrontation to Accommodation: Home Schooling in South Carolina, by Zan Peters Tyler (Founder and President of the South Carolina Association of Independent Home Schools) and James C. Carper (University of South Carolina)
5. Home Education Regulations in Europe and Recent U.K. Research, by Lesley Ann Taylor (Wales, U.K.) and Amanda J. Petrie (University of Liverpool, England)
6. Home Schooling: The Ameliorator of Negative Influences on Learning?, by Brian D. Ray (National Home Education Research Institute)
7. Homeschooling and the Question of Socialization, Richard G. Medlin (Stetson University)
8. Participation and Perception: Looking at Home Schooling Through a Multicultural Lens, by Susan A. McDowell (Vanderbilt University) and Annette R. Sanchez and Susan S. Jones (Nashville State Tech)
9. Defying the Stereotypes of Special Education: Home School Students, by Jacque Ensign (Southern Connecticut State University)
10. When Homeschoolers Go to School: A Partnership Between Families and Schools, by Patricia M. Lines (Senior Research Analyst, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, United States Department of Education)
11. The Home Schooling Mother-Teacher: Toward a Theory of Social Integration, by Susan A. McDowell (Vanderbilt University)
12. Whither the Common Good? A Critique of Home Schooling, by Christopher Lubienski (Iowa State University)
13. The Future of Home Schooling, by Michael P. Farris (Attorney, Founder and President of the Home School Legal Defense Association) and Scott A. Woodruff (Attorney, Home School Legal Defense Association)
14. The Cultural Politics of Home Schooling, by Michael W. Apple (University of Wisconsin)
15. Home Schooling for Individuals\' Gain and Society\'s Common Good, by Brian D. Ray (National Home Education Research Institute)
16. The Home Schooling Movement: A Few Concluding Observations, by Robert Crowson (Vanderbilt University)

(300 pages, book, paperback, 2000)