Homeschool: An American History

ISBN-13: 9781349950553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 317 str.

Milton Gaither

Opis

This book provides a lively account of one of the most important and overlooked themes in American education. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to incorporate the most recent scholarship on the topic and to provide comprehensive coverage of recent trends.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: The Family State, 1600-1776 

Chapter 2: The Family Nation, 1776-1860 

Chapter 3: The Eclipse of the Fireside, 1865-1930 

Chapter 4: Why Homeschooling Happened 

Chapter 5: Three Homeschooling Pioneers

Chapter 6: The Changing of the Guard, 1983-1998 

Chapter 7: Making it Legal 

Chapter 8: The Homeschooling Movement and the Return of Domestic Education, 1998-2016

O autorze

Milton Gaither is Professor of Education at Messiah College, USA. He is a founding member and co-director of the International Center for Home Education Research and has published extensively on homeschooling and other topics related to the history of US education.  

Blurb

This book provides a lively account of one of the most important and overlooked themes in American education. Beginning in the colonial period and working to the present, Gaither describes in rich detail how the home has been used as the base for education of all kinds. The last five chapters focus especially on the modern homeschooling movement and offer the most comprehensive and authoritative account of it ever written.  Readers will learn how and why homeschooling emerged when it did, where it has been, and where it may be going. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to incorporate the most recent scholarship on the topic and to provide comprehensive coverage of recent trends.