Homeschool [electronic resource] : An American History / by Milton Gaither.

By: Gaither, Milton [author.]Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service)Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017Edition: 2nd ed. 2017Description: XIX, 317 p. 1 illus. in color. online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781349950560Subject(s): Education | America -- History | Teaching | Education -- History | Nature conservation | Sociology | Education | Learning & Instruction | History of Education | Nature Conservation | Sociological Theory | Teaching and Teacher Education | History of the AmericasAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 371.3 LOC classification: LB5-3640Online resources: e-book Full-text access
Contents:
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. .
In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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.
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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. .

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.

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