The Wiley Handbook Of Home Education

The Handbook of Home Education provides for the first time an authoritative, scholarly, and comprehensive reference work on home-schooling, bringing a balanced and international perspective to this growing subject.

Explores a broad range of topics, including the history of home-schooling as a reform movement in the US, demographic trends, motivation, special education needs, and home-schoolers and higher education

Examines core debates and research around academic achievement, government regulation, and socialization

Offers in-depth, comparative research on international home education laws, and research on home-schooling beyond the USA, including [LM2] Canada, China and Asia Pacific, Africa, and across Europe

Fills the need for a single, authoritative resource that both synthesizes the extant literature – which varies profoundly in quality and by discipline, methodology, and region – and sets an agenda for future study

Edited by a leading figure in the field; Gaither is a founding member of the International Center for Home Education Research (ICHER), the world’s leading scholarly association devoted to 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.