The Wiley Handbook of Home Education

"The Wiley Handbook of Home Education" is a comprehensive collection of the latest scholarship in all aspects of home education in the United States and abroad. This book presents the latest findings on academic achievement of home-schooled children, issues of socialization, and legal argumentation about home-schooling and government regulation. A truly global perspective on home education, this handbook includes the disparate work of scholars outside of the U.S. Typically understudied topics are addressed, such as the emotional lives of home educating mothers and the impact of home education on young adults. Writing is accessible to students, scholars, educators, and anyone interested in home schooling issues. Following an introduction by Milton Gaither, this book contains the following chapters: (1) The History of Homeschooling (Milton Gaither); (2) Using Survey Data Sets to Study Homeschooling (Eric Isenberg); (3) Legal Issues in Homeschooling (Antony Barone Kolenc); (4) The Calculus of Departure: Parent Motivations for Homeschooling (Joseph Murphy, Milton Gaither, and Christine E. Gleim); (5) Academic Achievement: Making an Informed Choice about Homeschooling (Sandra Martin-Chang and Kyle Levesque); (6) Homeschooler Socialization: Skills, Values, and Citizenship (Robert Kunzman); (7) Homeschoolers and Higher Education (Marc Snyder); (8) Homeschooling Motherhood (Jennifer Lois); (9) Homeschooling among Ethnic-Minority Populations (Cheryl Fields-Smith); (10) Teaching the Child with Exceptional Needs at Home (Karen Hurlbutt-Eastman); (11) Homeschooling 2.0: An Overview of Online Learning in K-12 Education across the United States (Bryan Mann); (12) Home Education in Canada (Christine Brabant and Marine Dumond); (13) Home Education in the United Kingdom (Helen E. Lees and Fiona Nicholson); (14) Common Themes in Australian and New Zealand Home Education Research (Glenda M. Jackson); (15) Theories, Practices, and Environments of Learning and Home Education in Latin America (Erwin Fabián García López, Diego Fernando Barrera Tenorio, and Wills Emilio Alejandro Fonseca); (16) The Legal Situation of Home Education in Europe (Henk Blok, Michael S. Merry, and Sjoerd Karsten); (17) Home Education Experience in Selected Post-Communist Countries (Yvona Kostelecká); (18) Home Education in Asia Minor (Elife Dogan Kiliç); (19) Home Education in China (Xiaoming Sheng); and (20) Contemporary Homeschooling and the Issue of Racism: The Case of South Africa (Michael Olalekan Olatunji).