Family Unity Objectives of Parents Who Teach Their Children: Ideological and Pedagogical Orientations to Home Schooling.

Mayberry, Maralee; Knowles, J. Gary

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Publication Date: 1989

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Family Unity Objectives of Parents Who Teach Their Children: Ideological and Pedagogical Orientations to Home Schooling.

Mayberry, Maralee; Knowles, J. Gary

Urban Review, v21 n4 p209-25 Dec 1989

Examines parents who teach their children at home. While families have complex motives for home schooling, a common factor is parents' desire to maintain or further develop family unity, and to resist the effects of urbanization and modernization on the family. Suggests benefits of home/public school partnerships. (AF)

Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Family (Sociological Unit), Family School Relationship, Group Unity, Home Schooling, Ideology, Nontraditional Education, Parent Influence, Parent Participation, Parent Role, Parent Student Relationship, Parents as Teachers

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Audience: Teachers; Policymakers; Practitioners

Language: English

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