Home-Schooling

Home-schooling is, in one sense, the oldest of all educational philosophies: parents have taught their children at home for far longer than any formal school system has existed. In another sense, modern home-schooling is a deliberate alternative to the universal-public-education system that dominated the twentieth century. The chapter works through the history, the methods, the legal frameworks, the socialisation question, and the practical decisions home-schooling parents face.

Introduction and Compulsory Attendance

Home-schooling as the oldest education system, the rise of compulsory attendance laws starting in Massachusetts in 1852, and the exemptions for home instruction

Method and Why Parents Choose Home-School

The miniature-school, unschooling, and middle-way approaches, with the main reasons families choose home-schooling

Learning Styles

Physical, intrapersonal, interpersonal, linguistic, mathematical, musical, and visual learning styles, and how home-schooling can match instruction to each

Home-Schooling Laws

From parental discretion to state regulation, key court cases of the 1920s, and the common law features home-schoolers face today

Socialisation and Political Concerns

What socialisation really means for home-schoolers, the critique of school socialisation, and the political concerns of home-schooling critics

How to Home-School and the Pakistani Context

Formal, eclectic, and freeform approaches; the careers home-schooled graduates pursue; and the legal context in Pakistan