An Evaluation of the Historical Development and Recent State of Homeschooling in the USA

Yıl 2015, Cilt: 3 Sayı: 30, 99 - 118, 03.12.2015

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Öz

At the end of 1960s, a time when the requirement to attend formal education institutions for a more promising future was commonly acknowledged, homeschooling emerged as a practice in which parents themselves undertook responsibility for educating their children instead of directing them to professionals. Having emerged as a social movement in the educational field, homeschooling is an alternative choice of education that is practiced legally in many countries besides the USA. One of the basic conclusions of this study, in which an overview of the emergence of homeschooling in the USA and its current situation have been taken, is that homeschooling, after emerging as a reaction against institutional education, has lost its marginality; and that in parallel to its legitimization, it has been transformed into a segment of institutional education today. 

Anahtar Kelimeler

Homeschooling, the USA, Alternative Education, 1960s, Social Movements, Sociology of Education

An Evaluation of the Historical Development and Recent State of Homeschooling in the USA

Öz

At the end of 1960s, a time when the requirement to attend formal education
institutions for a more promising future was commonly acknowledged, homeschooling
emerged as a practice in which parents themselves undertook responsibility for
educating their children instead of directing them to professionals. Having emerged as
a social movement in the educational field, homeschooling is an alternative choice of
education that is practiced legally in many countries besides the USA. One of the basic
conclusions of this study, in which an overview of the emergence of homeschooling
in the USA and its current situation have been taken, is that homeschooling, after
emerging as a reaction against institutional education, has lost its marginality; and that
in parallel to its legitimization, it has been transformed into a segment of institutional
education today.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Homeschooling, the USA, Alternative Education, 1960s, Social Movements, Sociology of Education

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