Educating Children at Home
Seiten
1998
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Verlag)
978-0-8264-5205-4 (ISBN)
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Verlag)
978-0-8264-5205-4 (ISBN)
With increasing numbers of parents choosing to educate their children at home, an opportunity exists to explore education outside the school environment. Focusing on informal learning, this text examines in depth how children can acquire an education simply through everyday experiences.
Schooling is so much a part of our culture that we have come to believe that education cannot exist without it. Yet the number of children being educated at home is rapidly growing . Moreover, the number looks set to grow further, with more people opting to work from home coupled with the great increase in educational software and knowledge available via the internet. This new book covers the issues involved in home education. Most importantly, Alan Thomas conducts a systematic inquiry in to how parents actually go about teaching their children at home. Based on the experiences of a hundred home educating families, the book assesses parents' motives and the ways in which they are forced to adapt conventional methods of education and learning, often challenging basic assumptions about the nature of children's learning. This book's findings, including an extended focus on informal learning, not only permit a long overdue assessment of educating in the home but also have tremendous implications for wider educational thinking. Dr Alan Thomas is Visiting Fellow at the University of London Institute of Education and was formerly at the Northern Territory University, Darwin, Australia.He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
Schooling is so much a part of our culture that we have come to believe that education cannot exist without it. Yet the number of children being educated at home is rapidly growing . Moreover, the number looks set to grow further, with more people opting to work from home coupled with the great increase in educational software and knowledge available via the internet. This new book covers the issues involved in home education. Most importantly, Alan Thomas conducts a systematic inquiry in to how parents actually go about teaching their children at home. Based on the experiences of a hundred home educating families, the book assesses parents' motives and the ways in which they are forced to adapt conventional methods of education and learning, often challenging basic assumptions about the nature of children's learning. This book's findings, including an extended focus on informal learning, not only permit a long overdue assessment of educating in the home but also have tremendous implications for wider educational thinking. Dr Alan Thomas is Visiting Fellow at the University of London Institute of Education and was formerly at the Northern Territory University, Darwin, Australia.He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
Dr Alan Thomas is Visiting Fellow at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
Individual teaching; learning through living; why do parents choose to educate their children at home?; teaching at home; becoming less formal; informal learning; a chronicle of informal learning; literacy; social aspects; towards a child's theory of learning.
| Verlagsort | London |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 290 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8264-5205-1 / 0826452051 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8264-5205-4 / 9780826452054 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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