Homeschool : An American History /
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...
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Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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Publisher Address: | New York : |
Publication Dates: | 2017. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Edition: | Second edition. |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95056-0 |
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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 incorpora |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations |
ISBN: | 9781349950560 |
Index Number: | LB5 |
CLC: | G424 |
Contents: | 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. . |