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Homeschool: An American History
Milton Gaither
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Description for Homeschool: An American History
Paperback. Num Pages: 317 pages, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JNB; JNL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book provides a lively account of one of the most important and overlooked themes in American education. Beginning in the colonial period and working to the present, Gaither describes in rich detail how the home has been used as the base for education of all kinds. The last five chapters focus especially on the modern homeschooling movement and offer the most comprehensive and authoritative account of it ever written. Readers will learn how and why homeschooling emerged when it did, where it has been, and where it may be going. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to ... Read more
This book provides a lively account of one of the most important and overlooked themes in American education. Beginning in the colonial period and working to the present, Gaither describes in rich detail how the home has been used as the base for education of all kinds. The last five chapters focus especially on the modern homeschooling movement and offer the most comprehensive and authoritative account of it ever written. Readers will learn how and why homeschooling emerged when it did, where it has been, and where it may be going. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
317
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349950553
SKU
V9781349950553
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Milton Gaither
Milton Gaither is Professor of Education at Messiah College, USA. He is a founding member and co-director of the International Center for Home Education Research and has published extensively on homeschooling and other topics related to the history of US education.
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