Educating Your Child at Home

by Thomas, Alan; Lowe, Jane

• ISBN13: 9780826452276
• ISBN10: 0826452272
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-30
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

What does home education involve? What are the advantages and disadvantages? How can you decide whether it is right for your child? If it is right, how do you go about it? And where can you go for help, advice for information. This practical self-help book for parents provides a one-stop resource for parents contemplating or embarking on home education with their children. This book: --helps parents to decide if home education will work for their family--provides information on the first steps to home education and answers parents most common questions--provides guidance as to subjects and curriculum, methods of teaching and how to deal with special circumstances--acts as parenting guide to parents with children in school to help support their childrens learning outside of school--helps more experienced home educators refine their own approaches to their childrens learning

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Thinking about home education	1	(7)
Learning at home is not like learning in school	8	(12)
Informal learning	20	(18)
Starting out	38	(17)
Learning at home in the primary Years	55	(24)
Projects	79	(4)
Learning at home in the secondary years	83	(38)
Social life	121	(10)
Special educational needs	131	(10)
Options as children grow older	141	(9)
Some final reflections	150	(7)
References	157	(1)
Addresses and further reading	158	(3)
Index	161