Homeschool

This is 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. Please visit Gaither's blog here: http://gaither.wordpress.com/homeschool-an-american-history/

Autorentext
Milton Gaither is Professor of Education at Messiah College, USA.

Inhalt
The Family State, 1600-1776 The Family Nation: 1776-1860 The Eclipse of the Fireside, 1865-1930 Why Homeschooling Happened, 1945-1990 Three Homeschooling Pioneers The Changing of the Guard, 1983-1998 Making it Legal * Homeschooling and the Return of Domestic Education, 1998-2008