The Home Schooling Movement
A Few Concluding Observations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11258533 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert L Crowson (Vanderbilt University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 294-300 |
| Publication date | 2000-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Peabody Journal of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-956X • E-ISSN: 1532-7930 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0161956x.2000.9681946 |
| OpenAlex | W2065431616 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
In 1932, Willard Waller (The Sociology of Teaching) warned of the importance of distinguishing clearly between school and not-school. Otherwise, the special concerns of parents (vis-a-vis their own children), alongside community power inequities, would intrude heavily on the abilities of educators to be fully professional, to avoid favoritism and particularism, and to be effectively neutral. Waller likely would be much surprised today to learn that a successful buffering of school from not-school is now given some credit (e.g., by Apple, 2000/this issue) for fueling the home schooling movement (see also Sarason, 1995). A rather unresponsive and notoriously bureaucratized profession apparently has not yet learned how to be adequately user-friendly. Waller might be even more surprised to learn that the not-school, in very rapidly growing numbers (as noted by Ray, 2000a/this issue), is currently assuming the role of the school. What is the deep significance here? For parents to serve their children as pedagogues is not at all new, historically (see Carper, 2000/this issue); but the social and institutional implica
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The sociology of teaching.
The Future of Home Schooling
Home Schooling and the Future of Public Education
Home Schooling and the Question of Socialization
Participation and Perception
Pluralism to Establishment to Dissent
The Home Schooling Mother-Teacher
The Cultural Politics of Home Schooling
From Confrontation to Accommodation
When Home Schoolers Go to School
Whither the Common Good? A Critique of Home Schooling
Defying the Stereotypes of Special Education
Home Education Regulations in Europe and Recent U.K. Research
Home Schooling
Home Schooling for Individuals' Gain and Society's Common Good
When Home Schoolers Go to School
The Home Schooling Mother-Teacher
A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |