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Links to Published Academic Research on Home Education and
Home Education Research Sites
1. Dr. Alan Thomas has conducted frequently quoted and widely educationally
accepted work on understanding home education and how it works. Unfortunately
Alan’s research is not available on the net but his book “Educating Children at
Home” based on his research with Home Educated families in the UK and Australia
is available to buy or to borrow from HEN (see the Library section.)
2. Dr. Paula Rothermel’s research “Home-Education: Rationales, Practices
and Outcomes” undertaken at Durham university. It is strongly recommended. Also
she has published in 2000 'The Third Way in Education: Thinking the Unthinkable'.
Education 3-13, Volume 28, No. 1, March. Staffordshire: Trentham Books.
3. The National Home Education Research Institute founded by Dr. Brian Ray
can be found at www.nheri.org It is principally research on Christian based home
educators.
Check the Quick Links to Research Findings
The site contains the following:
Facts on Homeschooling – July 2006 FREE to print out from Web Site!
General Research Fact Sheet – FREE to print out from Web Site!
Fact Sheet I – FREE to print out from Web Site!
Fact Sheet IIb – FREE to print out from Web Site!
Fact Sheet IIIb – FREE to print out from Web Site!
Worldwide Guide to Homeschooling – almanac-like book packed with topics such
as why families homeschool, statistics, charts, history, current trends, academic
achievement, socialization, and much more; annually updated
Home Educated and Now Adults – new 2004 study on adults who were
homeschooled, full of fascinating findings
Strengths of Their Own – most in-depth nationwide study of homeschool families
and students
Homeschooling on the Threshold - booklet that summarizes research; see
description below
He also edits a journal called the “Home School Researcher”.
4. Dr Amanda Petrie’s research on Home Education in Europe and the
Implementation of Changes to the Law
5. Prof. Roland Meighan (of Educational Heretics fame) has published
considerable research.You can find in that link details of some of them.
He and others (most notably Mike Fortune Woods) have set up a research body in
the UK for Home Education. It can be found at: www.home-education.org.
uk/research/index.htm
6. Daniel Monk has looked at children’s right, human rights and education
around recent cases in the European Court of Human Rights. His 2003 article
entitled “Home Education: a human right?”.
7. The New Zealand government has published some research on the number
of Home Educators in New Zealand.
8. The US government has published details of its Home Schooling Survey
2003, done as part of a much larger education survey done every 4-5 years.
There is a great deal of other non-academic research out there, written by home
educators and published in book form. Please refer to the Library page and Book
listings in other parts of the website.
Home Education Research Sites
1. Dr. Alan Thomas has conducted frequently quoted and widely educationally
accepted work on understanding home education and how it works. Unfortunately
Alan’s research is not available on the net but his book “Educating Children at
Home” based on his research with Home Educated families in the UK and Australia
is available to buy or to borrow from HEN (see the Library section.)
2. Dr. Paula Rothermel’s research “Home-Education: Rationales, Practices
and Outcomes” undertaken at Durham university. It is strongly recommended. Also
she has published in 2000 'The Third Way in Education: Thinking the Unthinkable'.
Education 3-13, Volume 28, No. 1, March. Staffordshire: Trentham Books.
3. The National Home Education Research Institute founded by Dr. Brian Ray
can be found at www.nheri.org It is principally research on Christian based home
educators.
Check the Quick Links to Research Findings
The site contains the following:
Facts on Homeschooling – July 2006 FREE to print out from Web Site!
General Research Fact Sheet – FREE to print out from Web Site!
Fact Sheet I – FREE to print out from Web Site!
Fact Sheet IIb – FREE to print out from Web Site!
Fact Sheet IIIb – FREE to print out from Web Site!
Worldwide Guide to Homeschooling – almanac-like book packed with topics such
as why families homeschool, statistics, charts, history, current trends, academic
achievement, socialization, and much more; annually updated
Home Educated and Now Adults – new 2004 study on adults who were
homeschooled, full of fascinating findings
Strengths of Their Own – most in-depth nationwide study of homeschool families
and students
Homeschooling on the Threshold - booklet that summarizes research; see
description below
He also edits a journal called the “Home School Researcher”.
4. Dr Amanda Petrie’s research on Home Education in Europe and the
Implementation of Changes to the Law
5. Prof. Roland Meighan (of Educational Heretics fame) has published
considerable research.You can find in that link details of some of them.
He and others (most notably Mike Fortune Woods) have set up a research body in
the UK for Home Education. It can be found at: www.home-education.org.
uk/research/index.htm
6. Daniel Monk has looked at children’s right, human rights and education
around recent cases in the European Court of Human Rights. His 2003 article
entitled “Home Education: a human right?”.
7. The New Zealand government has published some research on the number
of Home Educators in New Zealand.
8. The US government has published details of its Home Schooling Survey
2003, done as part of a much larger education survey done every 4-5 years.
There is a great deal of other non-academic research out there, written by home
educators and published in book form. Please refer to the Library page and Book
listings in other parts of the website.