Homeschool
Subtitle: An American History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 27, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780230606005
Subjects: History; Teaching Methods & Materials - General; Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / General; Education; Education / Teaching; Home Schooling; Social aspects; United States
Description: 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. - Publisher.