Wiley Handbook of Home Education

Milton Gaither is Professor of Education at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. He is the author of American Educational History Revisited: A Critique of Progress (2003) and Homeschool: An American History (2008). Gaither has held several leadership roles for the History of Education Society and is a founder and board member of the International Center for Home Education Research.

• Notes on Contributors viiIntroduction to The Wiley Handbook of Home Education 1Milton GaitherPart I Home Education in the United States 51 The History of Homeschooling 7Milton Gaither2 Using Survey Data Sets to Study Homeschooling 32Eric Isenberg3 Legal Issues in Homeschooling 59Antony Barone Kolenc4 The Calculus of Departure: Parent Motivations for Homeschooling 86Joseph Murphy, Milton Gaither, and Christine E. Gleim5 Academic Achievement: Making an Informed Choice about Homeschooling 121Sandra Martin‐Chang and Kyle Levesque6 Homeschooler Socialization: Skills, Values, and Citizenship 135Robert Kunzman7 Homeschoolers and Higher Education 157Marc Snyder8 Homeschooling Motherhood 186Jennifer Lois9 Homeschooling among Ethnic‐Minority Populations 207Cheryl Fields‐Smith10 Teaching the Child with Exceptional Needs at Home 222Karen Hurlbutt‐Eastman11 Homeschooling 2.0: An Overview of Online Learning in K–12 Education across the United States 246Bryan MannPart II Home Education Worldwide 26912 Home Education in Canada 271Christine Brabant and Marine Dumond13 Home Education in the United Kingdom 303Helen E. Lees and Fiona Nicholson14 Common Themes in Australian and New Zealand Home Education Research 329Glenda M. Jackson15 Theories, Practices, and Environments of Learning and Home Education in Latin America 362Erwin Fabián García López, Diego Fernando Barrera Tenorio, and Wills Emilio Alejandro Fonseca16 The Legal Situation of Home Education in Europe 395Henk Blok, Michael S. Merry, and Sjoerd Karsten17 Home Education Experience in Selected Post‐Communist Countries 422Yvona Kostelecká18 Home Education in Asia Minor 446Elife Doğan Kılıç19 Home Education in China 468Xiaoming Sheng20 Contemporary Homeschooling and the Issue of Racism: The Case of South Africa 494Michael Olalekan OlatunjiIndex 516