Library Services to Homeschoolers (eBook)

A Guide

Christina Giovannelli Caputo (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
136 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-4683-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Library Services to Homeschoolers: A Guide will help librarians understand and serve their homeschooling community. Chapter 1 covers the early history of homeschooling and how compulsory education changed how our children were schooled. Chapter 2 explores the homeschool revolution, when parents began to take back the education of their children. Chapter 3 looks at homeschooling today and the way laws, advocacy groups, and COVID-19 all contributed to a surge in homeschooling families. Chapter 4 examines the various methods parents use to educate their children at home. From an at home classrooms to travelschooling, parents are creative in teaching their children. Chapter 5 is the how-to-do-it for libraries. Learn how public libraries can help parents and caregivers teach their children by providing a place, materials, programs, and more. Chapter 6, explores various ways of reaching the homeschooling community we want to serve. Chapter 7 looks at the growing diversity in home education. Finally, Chapter 8 peers into the future of homeschooling, helping us prepare for the needs of future homeschooling families.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Library Services to Homeschoolers
• Zusatzinfo: 47 Illustrations including: - 35 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 12 Text Boxes.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Schlagworte: Alternative Education Methods • At Home Learner • At Home Learners • Distance Learners • E-Learning • homeschoolers • Homeschooling • Homeschooling Methods • Library Services to Homeschoolers • Parent as First Teacher • Public Library Services
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-4683-5 / 1538146835
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-4683-5 / 9781538146835