Homeschool
An American History
Seiten
2017
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2nd ed. 2017
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-95055-3 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-95055-3 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.03.2017 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 1 Illustrations, color; XIX, 317 p. 1 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Schlagworte | Domestic Education • history of education • History of the Family • Home Education • Homeschooling |
| ISBN-10 | 1-349-95055-6 / 1349950556 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-349-95055-3 / 9781349950553 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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