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Resource Information List on Homeschooling

On the Internet

Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the General Assembly of the United
Nations,
Article 26 (3)
"Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be
given to their children."
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

Association for Canadian Home-Based Education
http://www.flora.org/homeschool-ca/achbe/index.html

Canadian Home Based Learning Resource Page
http://www.flora.org/homeschool-ca/

OFTP
http://www.flora.org/oftp/

Home Based Learning Network
http://www.flora.org/hbln/

Articles

Homeschooling and the Redefinition of Citizenship by Bruce Arai
in the Education Policy Analysis Archives
http://olam.ed.asu.edu/epaa/v7n27.html

Homeschooling Back to the Future by Isabel Lyman
in the Policy Analysis archives of the Cato institute
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-294es.html

Homeschooling- Another Educational Choice by Mary Beth Nelsen
in the archives of the Connecticut Home Educators Association
http://www.connix.com/~dschroth/chea/articles/homechoice.htm

In Print

Callan, E. (1997) Creating Citizens: Political Education and Liberal Democracy. Oxford:
Clarendon Press.

           Gatto, J.T. (1991) Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling.
           Philadelphia: New Society Publishers.

           Guterson, D., (1992) Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense, New York,
           Harcourt Brace.

Holmes, M. (1998). The Reformation of Canada's Schools: Breaking Barriers to Parental
Choice. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press.

Holt, J. (1983) Learning All The Time. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers.

Holt, J. (1981) Teach Your Own: A Hopeful Path for Education. New York:
Delta/Seymour Lawrence.

Illich, I. (1971) Deschooling Society. New York: Harper & Row.

           Knowles, J.G. (1998) Home Education: Personal Histories. Chapter 14, pp 302-31 in M.L.
           Fuller and G. Olsen (eds). Home-School Relations: Working Successfully with Parents and
           Families. Toronto: Allyn and Bacon.

           Knowles, J.G., S. Marlow and J.A. Muchmore (1992) From Pedagogy to Ideology: Origins
           and Phases of Home Education in the United States, 1970-1990. American Journal of
           Education, 100(1): 195-235.

Knowles, J.G. (1991) Parents' Rationales for Operating Home Schools. Journal of
Contemporary Ethnography; 20(2): 203_230.

Luffman, J. (1997) A Profile of Home Schooling in Canada. Education Quarterly Review,
4(4):30-47.

Marlow, S.E. (1994) Educating Children at Home: Implications for Assessment and
Accountability. Education and Urban Society, 26(4): 438-60.

Mayberry, M. J.G. Knowles, B. Ray and S. Marlow (1995) Home Schooling: Parents as
Educators. Thousand Oaks: Corwin Press.

Mayberry, M. (1993) Effective Learning Environments in Action: The Case of Home Schools.
School Community Journal; 3(1): 61_68.

Mayberry, M.(1988) Characteristics and Attitudes of Families Who Home School. Education
and Urban Society; 21(1): 32_41.

Mayberry, M. and J.G. Knowles (1989) Family Unity Objectives of Parents Who Teach Their Children: Ideological and Pedagogical Orientations to Home Schooling. Urban Review; 21(4):
209_225.

Menendez, A.J. (1996) Homeschooling: The Facts. Silver Spring MD: Americans for
Religious Liberty.

Pfleger, K. (1998, April 6) School's Out. The New Republic. 11-12.

Ray, B. D. (1999). Home Schooling on the Threshold: A Survey of Research at the Dawn
of the New Millenium. Salem OR: National Home Education Research Institute Publications.

           Ray, B. D. (1997). Strengths of Their Own--Home Schoolers Across America: Academic
           Achievement, Family Characteristics, and Longitudinal Traits. Salem OR: National Home
           Education Research Institute Publications.

           Ray, B. D. (1994). A Nationwide Study of Home Education in Canada: Family
           Characteristics, Student Achievement, and Other Topics. Lethbridge: Home School Legal
           Defense Association of Canada.

           Rudner, L. M. (1999). Scholastic achievement and demographic characteristics of home
           school students in 1998. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 7(8). [online]. Available at
           http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v7n8/.

Sheffer, S. (1997) A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls. New
York: Heinemann.

Taylor, J. W. (1986) Self-Conception in Homeschooling Children. Doctoral Dissertation,
Andrews University.

Thomas, A. (1998). Educating Children at Home. London: Cassell.

Webb, J. (1989) The Outcomes of Home-Based Education: Employment and Other Issues.
Educational Review, 41(2):121-33.

           Welner, K.M. and K.G. Welner (1999) Contextualizing Homeschooling Data: A Response to
           Rudner. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 7(13). [online]. Available at
           http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v7n13/.