I mention GHEC in this newsletter because it will have a rich research track. Nineteen scholars from many nations will make about 20 presentations. Following are the titles, in case you want to read the papers before the conference:
- A blended learning
environment for home educating parents in Colombia
- A Tale of Two Roles: Measuring Political Efficacy in Homeschool Parent-Teachers
- Achievement Motivation and Types of Homeschools
- An Analysis of Why Parents Choose Hybrid Homeschools
- An International Comparative Study of the Barriers to Parents Choosing to Home Educate Their
Children
- Education Without School at National University of Colombia
- Conflict and Integration of Values faced by Chinese Homeschooling Families
- Conflict and Integration of Values faced by Chinese Homeschooling Families
- Education savings accounts to encourage homeschooling and guard against institutional isomorphism in
school choice programs
- Homeschool Parents and Satisfaction with Special-Needs Services
- Homeschool Regulation in Brazil: Is Education a Family or State Right?
- Homeschooling in Brazil: a matter of rights or a political debate?
- Homeschooling, Virtual Schools, and the Erosion of the Public/Private Binary in Primary and
Secondary Education
- In the Best Interest of the Child: A new approach to a human rights based theory of home-schooling
- Performing "compulsory school" despite the law: how education policy underpins the widespread ignorance of the
- right to homeschool in France
- Socialization of Homeschooled Students (La socialización de los
niños homeschoolers) [Spain]
- The Human Right of Home Education
- Transmission of Culture, Religion, and Affinity for Home Education to Adults Who Were Homeschooled, Public Schooled & Private Schooled
- Virtual Home? The Rise of Online Learning in the Homeschooling Community and the Future of Educational Policy
- What about
the Right of Home Education in France?
- What is so interesting about home education? Qualities inherent in home education [United Kingdom]
Findings
Some of the projects to be presented at GHEC are completed; others are in progress. You can be sure that I will be presenting a summary of some of the
papers in future editions of this electronic research newsletter.
If you would like to look into my two papers, here they are with links: An International Comparative Study of the Barriers to Parents Choosing to Home Educate Their
Children
Transmission of Culture, Religion, and Affinity for Home Education to Adults Who Were Homeschooled, Public Schooled & Private Schooled
Conclusions
This is the first of its kind international gathering of homeschool researchers. Some of the research will give you fairly simple answers
to simple questions such as, “Is homeschooling better (or worse) on variable X?” Some of the projects, on the other hand, deal with complex and nuanced issues with no straightforward conclusions. You can be sure, however, that these scholars and their research will be influencing the minds of policymakers, educators, and parents for years to come.
Stay tuned.
--Brian D.
Ray, Ph.D.
National Home Education Research Institute
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