Educating Children at HomeWith increasing numbers of parents choosing to educate their children at home, an opportunity exists to explore education outside the school environment. Parents often discover that classroom approaches to teaching and learning do not easily translate into the home. As a result, some radically adjust their approach to educating their children, in some instances virtually abandoning any structured teaching or learning. Focusing on informal learning, this text examines in depth how children can acquire an education simply through everyday experiences. The text sets out to challenge fundamental assumptions about the nature of teaching and learning. Research has been drawn from a wide cross-section of parents from 100 home-educating families. |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
Teaching Children Individually | 10 |
Learning in the Early Years | 21 |
4 Why Do Parents Choose to Educate Their Children at Home? | 28 |
5 Teaching at Home | 42 |
6 Becoming Less Formal | 53 |
7 Informal Learning | 67 |
8 A Chronicle of Informal Learning | 80 |
9 Literacy | 98 |
10 Social Aspects | 111 |
11 A Different Kind of Education | 126 |
| 132 | |
| 137 | |
| 139 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
A. S. Neill academic activities adults Alice Alice's approach asked Australia bullying cents Chapter child children at home children in school children learn classroom curriculum daughter deal described difficulty dollar early educate their children educated at home Enid Blyton everyday example experience formal learning friends GCSE Getafix go to school Grade happens home ed home educated children home educating families Home Schooling incidental learning individual attention individualized teaching informal learning intellectual interaction interested John Holt kilogram knowledge Ladybird books Launceston learn to read learning at home lessons literacy look methods morning mother older pedagogical peer pressure phonics play Plowden Report problem progress pupils questions reached school age Roald Dahl simply social contact social development sometimes talk task taught teacher teaching and learning there's things thought timetable Tizard and Hughes understanding week writing