by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1986 | Volume 02, Issue 3
Tizard, Hughes, Pinkerton, and Carmichael (1982) were interested in four-year-olds as they compared adults’ cognitive demands on girls at home and at nursery school. The two treatments for each girl were being at nursery school with a teacher(s) in the morning and at...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1986 | Volume 02, Issue 3
Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology suggests that a person should set himself apart from or objectively “bracket” a phenomenon in order to understand it before making a value judgment related to it. This appears to be the approach utilized by Michael Shepherd as he...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1986 | Volume 02, Issue 3
Purpose of the Study. This paper is a narrative of various activities in the American home schooling movement focusing on the period from the 1970s to the present. It demonstrates how both alternative school advocates and “religious right” groups participate in the...