Homeschool : An American History /

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...

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Main Author:	Gaither, Milton (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:	Education. History of Education. History of the Americas. Learning & Instruction. Nature Conservation. Sociological Theory. Teaching and Teacher Education. Education > History. Nature conservation. Sociology. Teaching. America > History. Electronic books.
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Summary:	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/.
Item Description:	Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (IX, 273 pages)
ISBN:	9780230613010
DOI:	10.1007/978-0-230-61301-0