Home schooling in Singapore : motivations, capital and gender.

• Main Author: Sim, Aviel Wei Wen.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Communities, classes and races; DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social behavior
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/22661
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The purpose of this study is to account for why parents wish to home school their children despite having such an internationally recognised education system in Singapore, and to provide a better understanding of the realities of doing so. Interviews were conducted with ten parents, who had been obt...