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The World Is A Classroom
From: | Sandy Keane <Sandy_Keane@wonder.wimsey.com> |
To: | home-ed@world.std.com |
Subject: | Fwd: HSers Research List |
Date: | 18 Oct 1995 05:18:13 GMT |
from Paul LeBoutillier, on the OneNet Homeschool
Idea/Exchange Conference: Thought some of us might find it useful...
- Sandy <skeane@direct.ca>
The World Is A Classroom
The Superiority of Home-Schooling as an Educational Environment
The homeschooling movement is in effect, though certainly
not by design - a laboratory for the intensive and long-range
study of children's learning and of the ways in which friendly
and concerned adults can help them. It is a research project,
done at no cost, of a kind for which neither the public schools
nor the government could afford to pay.
- John Holt, "Schools and Home-schoolers: A Fruitful Partnership",
Phi Delta Kappan, Feb. 1983.
What follows are listings from the growing body of research
on homeschooling that address frequently voiced concerns. We
chose these listings because they are either frequently cited in
other works about homeschooling, or are more accessible to the
general reader than other academic studies. Some universities and
colleges will allow anyone to use their libraries, and they are
more likely to have these journals and books than a public
library. Some citations on this list appear in several categories
because one study often covers many different questions about
homeschooling.
Greene, S. (1985) Home study in Alaska: A profile of K-12
students enrolled in the Alaska Centralized Correspondence Study.
Resources in Education. (ERIC document Reproduction Service No.
ED 255 494)
Rakestraw, J. (1987) An Analysis of Home Schooling for
Elementary School-age Children in Alabama. Doctoral Dissertation,
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.
Ray, B.D. & Wartes, J. (1991) Academic Task and Socializing.
In J. Van Galen and M.A Pittman (Eds.) Home Schooling: Political,
Historical, and Pedagogical Perspectives. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Richman, Howard. (1988) Homeschoolers Score Higher - A
Replicable Result. (available from Pennsylvania Homeschoolers, RD
2, Box 117, Kittanning PA 16201)
Wartes, J. (1990). The Relationship of Selected Input
Variables to Academic Achievement Among Washington's
Homeschoolers, [16109 NE 169th Place,] Woodinville, WA:
Washington Homeschool Research Project.
Delahooke, M.M. (1986). Home educated children's
social/emotional adjustment and academic achievement: a
comparative study. Doctoral dissertation, California School of
Professional Psychology, Los Angeles. Dissertation Abstracts
International, 47 475A.
Montgomery, L. (1989). The effect of home schooling on the
leadership skills of home schooled students. Home School
Researcher, Vol. 5 (1), 1-10.
Taylor, J.W. (1986) Self-concept in home-schooling children.
Doctoral dissertation, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI.
Rakestraw, J. (1987). An Analysis of Home Schooling for
Elementary School-age Children in Alabama. Doctoral Dissertation,
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.
Ray, B. (1990) A Nationwide Study of Home Education: Family
Characteristics, Legal Matters, and Student Achievement. The
National Home Education Research Institute. P.O. Box 13939
Salem, Oregon 97309
Wartes, J. (1990). The Relationship of Selected Input
Variables to Academic Achievement Among Washington's
Homeschoolers, [16109 NE 169th Place,] Woodinville, WA:
Washington Homeschool Research Project.
Lines, P. (1987). An Overview of Home Instruction. Phi
Delta Kappan, March 1987.
Lines, P. (1990). Home Instruction: Characteristics, Size and
Growth. In Home Schooling: Political, Historical, and
Pedagogical Perspectives. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.
Barnaby, L.(1984) American university admission requirements
for home schooled applicants, in 1984. Doctoral dissertation,
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. Dissertation Abstracts
International, 47(3), 798A.
Webb, J. (1989) The Outcomes of Home-based Education: Employment
and Other Issues. Educational Review, 41(2).
The Moore Foundation, Box 1, Camas WA 98607 (Dr. Raymond
Moore)
The National Home Education
Research Institute, P.O. Box 13939 Salem, Oregon 97309
(Dr. Brian Ray) Articles in academic journals about
homeschooling can be accessed using the ERIC database (available
in many public and university libraries); when searching in ERIC
be sure to look at all the forms of the word "homeschooling"
(i.e. home school, home-school, home education, etc.) in order
to get the largest number of references. You can also write to
the National Home Education Research Institute (see above) for
details on how to obtain their current bibliography of home-
schooling articles. To obtain a copy of a dissertation, be sure
to get correct reference numbers from the University Microfilms
International (UMI) Dissertation Abstracts database or books
(according to their literature they are "the only central source
of accessing almost every doctoral dissertation accepted in North
America since 1861"). Contact UMI at 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor
MI 48106; 800-521-0600.
Education and Urban Society. Special issue: Understanding
Home Schools: Emerging Research and Reactions. J. Gary Knowles,
Ed. Volume 21, No. 1, Nov. 1988
Growing Without Schooling, 2269 Massachusetts Ave.,
Cambridge MA 02140
Home Education Magazine, PO Box 1083,
Tonasket WA 98855 (Their Jan./Feb. 1991 issue contains a special
section on research.)
Home School Researcher,
The National Home Education
Research Institute, P.O. Box 13939,
Salem, Oregon 97309. (503) 364-1490. mail@nheri.org
The Teaching Home, PO Box 20219, Portland OR 97220
Moore, Raymond and Dorothy (1988). Home School Burnout: What
it is. What Causes It. And How To Overcome It. Brentwood, TN:
Wolgemuth & Hyatt.
The Moores have written many other books about homeschooling
based on their research and studies; this is their most recent.
Some of their other titles are (1979) School Can Wait, Provo, UT:
Brigham Young Univ. Press; (1982), Homespun Schools, Waco, TX :
Word Books; (1984) Homestyle Teaching, Waco, TX; Word Books.
Van Galen, J. & Pitman, M.A. eds. (1991). Home Schooling:
Political, Historical, and Pedagogical Perspectives. Norwood, NJ:
Ablex Publishing.
Webb, Julie (1990). Children Learning at Home. London, UK:
Falmer Press
Arons, S. (1983) Compelling Belief: The Culture of American
Schooling, Amherst, MA: Univ. of MA Press. Studies the conflict
between the individual and institutionalism in education, with a
section on homeschooling.
Farenga, P. , ed. (1991) Homeschooling In The News,
Cambridge, MA: Holt Associates. Collection of national print
media articles about homeschooling that are not academically
oriented. Useful for seeing how the mass media portrays
homeschooling.
Holt, J. (1981) Teach Your Own: A Hopeful Path for
Education. Bantam/Doubleday/Dell, NY.
McCarthy, Oppewal, Peterson, Spykman, (1981) Society, State,
& Schools, Grand Rapids, MI: Eermans. This is a scholarly study
that advocates multiple educational systems that tolerate
pluralistic worldviews.
Resnick, L. (1987) Learning In School and Out, Educational
Researcher, December 1987. 13 - 20. Shows that practically none
of the skills learned in school are transferable to the world of
work.
Seefeldt, C. ed. (1990). Continuing Issues in Early
Childhood Education. Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill. Chapters
by Dr. Raymond Moore about delaying school entrance and by
Susannah Sheffer, editor of Growing Without Schooling, about
homeschooling.
Tizard, B. and Hughes, M. (1984). Young Children Learning.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press. Ample evidence that children
of working class parents learn more effectively at home than in
nursery schools.
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