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Changes in Parents’ Motivation to Home Educate

This research was conducted in 1999. While the list of reasons for homeschooling is likely to remain fairly constant over time, the percentages of parents homeschooling for each of those reasons may change as the social, cultural, institutional, and legal factors change. If similar research were done today, it may or may not yield the same sociological profile of parents who choose to homeschool.

research paper summary by Home Rules Newsletter Editor
published in the October 1999 issue of Home Rules, the OFTP members' newsletter

The following is a summary of a 21-page research paper by Bruce Arai, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo. The paper is entitled ”Ideologues”, “Pedagogues” and ”Mainstreamers”: Changes in Parents’ Motivations for Homeschooling. This paper is currently under review for publication by a scholarly journal. [Web Editor’s Note: this likely refers to this…

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