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Socialization and Home Educated Children: An Exploratory Study

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"Examines views of homeschool parents who participated in a focus group. Attempts to extend the current research knowledge by examining how homeschooling parents view socialization. No attempt was made to define socialization, as commonly understood by laypersons or researchers, for the participants. Attempst to fuel further conversation about socialization as it applies, or does not apply, to educating children at home.

 

 

Bryan G. Miller, M.A.R., Volume 14, No. 2, 2000, p. 7-14

 

 

 

 

Academic Intrinsic Motivation in Homeschooled Children

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"Analyzes academic intrinsic motivation in homeschooled children. Measures intrinsic interest in learning in children from three different educational settings: homeschools, a public school using grades for student evaluation, and a public school using portfolio assessment instead of grades. Also, homeschooled children’s academic achievement was tested and their parents’ attitudes and teaching practices were recorded to see what relationship these factors might have to academic intrinsic motivation.

 

 

Richard G. Medlin, Ph.D., and Robin E. Blackmer, Volume 14, No. 2, 2000, p. 1-6

 

 

The Homeschool Movement in the Postmodern Age

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Analyze the homeschool movement by grounding it in the social movement literature, particularly that which focuses on “new social movements,” and by highlighting the recent global social and cultural changes that have occurred as developed societies have been transformed from industrial to information societies, and their cultures from modern to postmodern ones. Argues that these changes are in large part responsible for the appearance, growth, and persistence of the homeschool movement in the late twentieth century. Includes information from interviewing and interacting with homeschooling families who are members of two homeschool support groups, with dozens of homeschoolers attending several homeschool conventions and activities, and with over a hundred homeschoolers across the nation via the Internet.

 

 

Gary Wyatt, Ph.D., Volume 13, No. 4, 1999, p. 23-30

 

 

The Perceived Impact of Home Schooling on the Family in General and the Mother-Teacher in Particular

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Uses quantitavie methods (in this part 1 of the study) to determine the perceptions of the mother-teacher in home schooling families as to the impact of the home schooling process on the family in general, and on the mother-teacher in particular (i.e., its effect on the roles and attending responsibilities of mother, teacher, wife, and individual).

 

 

Susan A. McDowell, Ed.D., Volume 13, No. 4, 1999, p. 1-21

 

 

An An Analysis of Print Media Coverage of Homeschooling: 1985-1996

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The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of the press, specifically the print media, upon the public’s perception of homeschooling.

 

Isabel Faith Lyman, Ph.D., Volume 13, No. 3, 1999, p. 11-14

 

A Radical Ideology for Home Education: The Journey of John Holt from School Critic to Home School…

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This study, based on a chronological treatment of primary sources, deals with the philosophical underpinnings of the home school movement from the tradition of the radical left, by examining the works of John Holt, the man perhaps most influential in providing an intellectual base for the radical segment of the movement.

Casey Patrick Cochran, Ph.D., Volume 13, No. 3, 1999, p. 1-10

 


 

A Descriptive Study and Needs Assessment of the Typical Washington Homeschool Family

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This descriptive study adds to the body of information that already exists concerning the typical homeschool profile works to identify areas of need that could conceivably be met by public and/or private institutions.
Valerie Lynn Witt, M.Ed., Volume 13, No. 2, 1999, p. 7-16

 

 

 

 

An Investigation of the Admission Standards of United States Colleges and Universities for Home…

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the admissions standards of U.S. colleges and universities for home-schooled students.
Brian D. Villanueva, Volume 13, No. 2, 1999, p. 1-6

Acceleration: A Case Study of Home Schooling

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while special withdrawal programs are usually broad-based in approach and allow students to leave their regular class for a specified amount of time for special instruction with a resource teacher, they may not meet the needs of an extremely gifted child or be relevant to his or her talent areas. Can home schooling provide the type of accelerated learning needed by some gifted students?.

Janice Leroux, Ph.D. and David Bell, B.A., B.Ed., Volume 13, No. 1, 1998, p. 1-6

CHILDREN’S PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR HOME SCHOOLING EXPERIENCES

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If a major parental motivation for home educating children is to address their unique individual needs (Lines, 1987; Van Galen, 1987), then one important measure of whether or not those needs have been met is home schooled children's perceptions of their educational experience. It is for this reason that this study investigates the effect of parents' motivations for home schooling on children's perceptions of their home schooling experience. .

Don C. Adams, Ph.D. and Shannon R. Purdy, M.Ed., Volume 12, No. 3, 1996, p. 1-8