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Home schooling

LC control no.sh 88002564
LC classificationLC40 LC40.5
Topical headingHome schooling
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Variant(s)Domestic education
Education, Home
Home-based education
Home education
Home instruction
Home teaching by parents
Homeschooling
Schooling, Home
See alsoEducation
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Education--Parent participation
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Scope noteHere are entered works on the education of school-age children in the home setting rather than in a traditional private or public school. Works on education for children confined to their homes by illness, physical injury, or emotional condition, provided by an itinerant or visiting teacher, are entered under Homebound instruction.
Subject example tracingNote under Homebound instruction
Found inWork cat.: Colfax, D. Homeschooling for excellence, 1988.
Encyclopedia of education, c2003: v. 3, p. 1060 (home schooling refers to the practice of parents educating a child at home, rather than in a conventional private or public school setting. These children would otherwise be enrolled in elementary or secondary school.)
ERIC thes. (Home schooling: provision of compulsory education in the home as an alternative to traditional public/private schooling--often motivated by parental desire to exclude their children from the traditional school environment)
Hennepin (Home schooling)
Not found inWeb. 3
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