Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction to The Wiley Handbook of Home Education 1Milton Gaither
Part I Home Education in the United States 5
1 The History of Homeschooling 7Milton Gaither
2 Using Survey Data Sets to Study Homeschooling 32Eric Isenberg
3 Legal Issues in Homeschooling 59Antony Barone Kolenc
4 The Calculus of Departure: Parent Motivations for Homeschooling 86Joseph Murphy, Milton Gaither, and Christine E. Gleim
5 Academic Achievement: Making an Informed Choice about Homeschooling 121Sandra Martin‐Chang and Kyle Levesque
6 Homeschooler Socialization: Skills, Values, and Citizenship 135Robert Kunzman
7 Homeschoolers and Higher Education 157Marc Snyder
8 Homeschooling Motherhood 186Jennifer Lois
9 Homeschooling among Ethnic‐Minority Populations 207Cheryl Fields‐Smith
10 Teaching the Child with Exceptional Needs at Home 222Karen Hurlbutt‐Eastman
11 Homeschooling 2.0: An Overview of Online Learning in K–12 Education across the United States 246Bryan Mann
Part II Home Education Worldwide 269
12 Home Education in Canada 271Christine Brabant and Marine Dumond
13 Home Education in the United Kingdom 303Helen E. Lees and Fiona Nicholson
14 Common Themes in Australian and New Zealand Home Education Research 329Glenda M. Jackson
15 Theories, Practices, and Environments of Learning and Home Education in Latin America 362Erwin Fabián García López, Diego Fernando Barrera Tenorio, and Wills Emilio Alejandro Fonseca
16 The Legal Situation of Home Education in Europe 395Henk Blok, Michael S. Merry, and Sjoerd Karsten
17 Home Education Experience in Selected Post‐Communist Countries 422Yvona Kostelecká
18 Home Education in Asia Minor 446Elife Doğan Kılıç
19 Home Education in China 468Xiaoming Sheng
20 Contemporary Homeschooling and the Issue of Racism: The Case of South Africa 494Michael Olalekan Olatunji
Index 516