Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Home Schooling

Educators everywhere confront critical issues related to families, schooling, and teaching in diverse settings. Directly addressing this reality, Home-School Connections in a Multicultural Society shows pre-service and practicing teachers how to recognize and build on the rich resources for enhancing school learning that exist within culturally and linguistically diverse families.

Combining engaging cases and relevant key concepts with thought-provoking pedagogical features, this valuable resource for educators at all levels:

• Provides detailed...

In his Educating Children at Home, Alan Thomas found that many home educating families chose or gravitated towards an informal style of education, radically different from that found in schools. Such learning, also described as unschooling, natural or autonomous, takes place without most of the features considered essential for learning in school. At home there is no curriculum or sequential teaching, nor are there any lessons, textbooks, requirements for written work, practice exercises, marking or testing. But how can children who learn in this way actually achieve an education on...

This significant volume studies the growing body of research on home education, and offers a broad analysis of this movement. Introductory chapters present the most current information on the demographics of the movement and on the social and academic outcomes of home education. Beyond these data, the broader implications of the movement are considered in chapters discussing legal issues and policy analysis. Additional chapters provide historical and sociological analysis of the conflicts between parents and schools that often precipitate the decision to home school. The volume ends with...

Montessori Inspired Activities for Pre-Schoolers is perfect for you if you are you interested in Montessori but you can't send you child to a Montessori pre-school or do you love Montessori but can't afford to buy all the equipment, or maybe you want to supplement your child's Montessori education?

Maybe you don't give a hoot about Montessori, and you are looking for activities for toddlers to keep your child quiet and busy so you can get your jobs done

Then this book is perfect for you, many of these activities are used in the Montessori classroom but don't use any specific...