When school is home: The three-pronged nature of homeschooling and its consequences on children's learning

• Main Author: Reyes, Melissa Lopez
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2012
• Subjects: Home schooling; Education—Parent participation; Other Education
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/8784
• Institution: De La Salle University

The followng are proposed af pillars of homeschooling effectiveness. The individual or small-group nature of learning, the long-term personal parent-child relationship and family dynamics on which learning is staged, and homeschool decision-making autonomy rooted in the principle of subsidiarity. Each pillar will be discussed, first by defining it; second, by using online accounts of homeschooling practices that exemplify the pillar; and, third, by citing general psychological literature pertinent to the pillar. The report ends with a discussion of implications to currucular and pedagogical differentiation, measurement of learning in aid of learning, and learner-driven learning. Most educators have probably first hatred of home-schooling not from scholarly books, or academic journals, but from families who have choosen it is a way of life