Research on Home Education

Canadian Homeschool Research

Canadian Homeschool Research
International Research

Canadian Homeschool Research

Media Type	Title	Author	Date
Media Type	Title	Author	Date
Website	Home Schooling’s Lessons for Education	Beth Green and Deani Van Pelt	September 2017
Publication	Homeschooling in Canada: The Current Picture	Barbara Mitchell Centre	2015
Publication	High Marks for Home-Schooling	Concordia University	2012
Video	Are home-schooled children smarter?	Concordia University	2012
Website	Are homeschooled adolescents less likely to use alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs?	Science Direct	2015
Publication	Dr. Christine Brabant Publications (Includes Canadian & International Research)	Dr. Christine Brabant Publications	Various
Publication	A question of resistance to home education and the culture of school-based education	Després, Blane.	2013
Publication	Toward a re-thinking of mass public schooling: A personal exploration	Whitehead, LeRoy E.	2007
Publication	Are there significant differences in academic achievement between homeschooled and conventionally schooled students?	Watkins, Maria A. C.	1997
Website	Home-schooling gets top marks	Wake, Wake, Bev.	2000, September 7
Publication	Charter schools in Alberta: Change or continuity in progressive conservative education policy?	Wagner, Michael.	1999
Publication	Educational assessment in Canada	Volante, Louis, & Jaafar, Sonia Ben.	2008
Publication	The choices families make: Home schooling in Canada comes of age	Van Pelt, Deani.	2004, March
Publication	Home education in Canada: A report on the pan-Canadian study on home education 2003	Van Pelt, Deani.	2003
Publication	Private religious Protestant and Catholic Schools in the United States and Canada: Introduction, overview, and policy implications	Van Pelt, Deani A. Neven; Sikkink, David; Pennings, Ray; & Seel, John.	2012
Publication	Fifteen Years Later: Home-Educated Canadian Adults, A Synopsis	Van Pelt, Deani A. Neven, Allison, Patricia A., & Allison, Derek J.	2009
Publication	Fifteen years later: Home-Educated Canadian Adults	Van Pelt, Deani A. Neven, Allison, Patricia A., & Allison, Derek J.	2009
Publication	Government, Neo‐liberal Media, and Education in Canada	Ungerleider, Charles.	2006
Publication	Religious materials banned for B.C. home schooling	Steffenhagen, Janet.	2004, April 22
Publication	Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)	Statistics Canada.	2010, December 7
Publication	Survey of Principals (SOP)	Statistics Canada.	2006, June 26
Publication	Information and Communications Technologies in Schools Survey (ICTSS)	Statistics Canada.	2004, June 10
Publication	Youth in Transition Survey, 15 year-olds (Mathematics Cohort) (YITS)	Statistics Canada.	2004, December 7
Publication	Summary elementary and secondary school indicators for Canada, the provinces and territories, 2006/2007 to 2010/2011	Statistics Canada, Tourism and Centre for Education Statistics Division.	2013
Publication	Be not wise – A study of Old Colony Mennonite educational beliefs and practices in Canada and Mexico	Sneath, Robyn.	2013
Publication	Parent-generated home study in Canada	Smith, David S.	1993, September 30
Publication	Parent-generated home study in Canada	Smith, D. S.	1996, February
Publication	Religious school differences in school climate and academic mission: A descriptive overview of school organization and student outcomes	Sikkink, David.	2012
Publication	Home schooling in view of John Calvin: A study in education and communion of saints	Sikkema, Keith.	2002
Publication	Roughing it in the electronic bush: Community networking in Canada	Shade, Leslie Reagan.	1999
Publication	Education for self-determination	Rozon, Gina.	2001
Publication	Going with the flow	Robertson, Heather-Jane.	2007
Publication	Going with the flow	Robertson, Heather-Jane.	2002
Publication	The home schooling movement and the struggle for democratic education	Riegel, Sarah.	2001, Summer
Website	Effects on services to home-based educators following changes to legislation and policy	Repetski, Joe.	2001
Publication	Homeschooling in Canada	Ray, Brian D.	2001, Spring
Publication	Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice	Ray, Brian D.	2001
Publication	Home education science learning in the context of family, neighborhood, and society	Ray, Brian D.	1995
Publication	Home education across Canada and comparisons to the home education phenomenon in the United States	Ray, Brian D.	1995
Website	A nationwide study of home education in Canada: Apparently flourishing in size and successful in children’s learning	Ray, Brian D.	1995
Website	A nationwide study of home education in Canada: Family characteristics, student achievement, and other topics	Ray, Brian D.	1994
Website	Home-based education in Canada: An investigation	Priesnitz, Wendy, & Priesnitz, Heidi.	1990, March
Website	Cardus education survey: Do the motivations for private religious Catholic and Protestant schooling in North America align with graduate outcomes?	Pennings, Ray; Seel, John; Van Pelt, Deani A. Neven; Sikkink, David; & Wiens, Kathryn L.	2011
Website	Nurturing children: Why “early learning” doesn’t help	Mrozek, Andrea.	2012, August 30
Website	Megatrends and education’s future	Moynes, Riley E.	1984, Fall
Website	School choice in Canada: Lessons for America	Milke, Mark.	2010, November 8
Website	Co-operation between families and schools: What works in Canada	McKenna, Mary; & Willms, J. Douglas.	1998
Website	Truancy and coercive consent: Is there an alternative?	McIntyre‐Bhatty, Karen.	2008
Website	Home schooling: Answers to questions parents most often ask	McIntire, Deborah, & Windham, Robert.	1995
Website	The impact of schooling on academic achievement: Evidence from homeschooled and traditionally schooled students	Martin-Chang, Sandra; Gould, Odette N.; Meuse, Reanne E.	2011, July
Website	Home schooling: Learning from dissent	Luke, Catherine	2003, April 3
Website	When parents replace teachers: the home schooling option	Luffman, Jacqueline	1998, Fall
Website	A profile of home schooling in Canada	Luffman, Jacqueline	1997
Website	Parental education rights in the United States and Canada: Homeschooling and its legal protection	Lagos, Julio Alberto	2011
Website	Do school bullying and student–teacher relationships matter for academic achievement? A Multilevel Analysis	Konishi, Chiaki; Hymel, Shelley; Zumbo, Bruno D.; & Li, Zhen.	2010
Website	“We’ve grown up and we’re OK”: An exploration of adults who were home-educated as students	Knowles, J. Gary	1991
Website	Yep! We’re grown-up home-school kids–and we’re doing just fine, thank you	Knowles, J. Gary, & Muchmore, James A.	1995
Website	“Yep! We’re grown-up home schooled kids — and we’re doing just fine, thank you very much”	Knowles, J. Gary, & Muchmore, James A.	1994
Website	“Now we are adults”: Attitudes, beliefs, and status of adults who were home-educated as children	Knowles, J. Gary, & de Olivares, K.	1991
Website	Learning in the library: An assessment of library services to homeschoolers	Hunt, Rebecca N.	1996
Website	Cross-border reflections: Parents’ rights to direct their children’s education under the U.S. and Canadian constitutions	Howard, J. Paul R.	2001
Website	Homeschooling within the public school system	Horsburgh, Fergus Bruce Norman.	2005
Website	Canadian research on information and communications technologies: A state of the field	Haughey, Margaret	2002
Website	The right hand of fellowship: Home education in Nova Scotia and ideological challenge	Harrison Pollock, Dorothy J.A.	1994
Website	Understanding Canadians’ declining confidence in public education	Guppy, Neil; & Davies, Scott	1999
Website	Giving Up on School: One Family’s Story	Education Canada	2007
Website	Home education and post secondary admissions	Gaumont, Léo	2002
Website	Why are youth from lower-income families less likely to attend university? Evidence from academic abilities, parental influences, and financial constraints	Frenette, Marc	2007
Website	Home education in Canada: National poll of homeschooling families shows startling results	Faris, Paul	2006
Website	Persistence in high school: Experiences of adolescents and young adults with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder	Duquette, Cheryll; Stodel, Emma; Fullarton, Stephanie; & Hagglund, Karras	2006
Website	Educational advocacy among adoptive parents of adolescents with fetal alcohol spectrum Disorder	Duquette, Cheryll Ann; Stodel, Emma J.; Fullarton, Stephanie; & Hagglund, Karras	2011
Website	Education in Canada: An overview	Dunning, Paula	1997
Website	Homeschooling and Canadian educational politics: Rights, pluralism and pedagogical individualism	Davies, Scott; & Aurini, Janice.	2003
Website	School choice by default? Understanding the demand for private tutoring in Canada	Davies, Scott	2004, May
Website	The Edumometer: The commodification of learning from Galton to the PISA	Corbett, Michael	2008, May
Website	Home schooling…a growing movement	Common, Ron W., & MacMullen, Marilyn	1986
Website	The home school in Quebec: the expression of a marginal family choice	Brabant, Christine; Bourdon, Sylvain; & Jutras, France	2004, Fall
Website	Home education in Quebec: Family first	Brabant, Christine; Bourdon, Sylvain; & Jutras, France	2003
Website	Homeschooling	Brabant, Christine	2008
Website	For a reflexive governance of education: The example of home education in Quebec	Brabant, Christine	2007
Website	Citizenship Education: A collaborative research with home educators	Brabant, Christine	2006
Website	Educational Change and Reflexive Governance: Experimentation of an Appropriation of Change Model by Quebec Home Educators Groups	Brabant, C., & Bourdon, S.	2012
Website	Home schooling: From the extreme to the mainstream	Basham, Patrick	2001, October 9
Website	Home schooling: From the extreme to the mainstream, 2nd edition	Basham, Patrick, Merrifield, John, and Hepburn, Claudia R.	2007, October
Website	Does market competition encourage strategic action in the private education sector?	Aurini, Janice; & Quirke, Linda	2011
Website	Choice without markets: Homeschooling in the context of private education	Aurini, Janice; & Davies, Scott	2005
Website	Educational entrepreneurialism in the private tutoring industry: Balancing profitability with the humanistic face of schooling.	Aurini, Janice	2004
Website	Home education: The third option	Audain, Tunya	1987
Website	Homeschooling and the redefinition of citizenship	Arai, A. Bruce	1999
Website	A study of private schools in Alberta.	Alberta Department of Education	1984, December
Website	Reasons for home schooling in Canada	Arai, A. Bruce	2000

International Research

Media Type	Title	Author	Date
Media Type	Title	Author	Date
Publication	Homeschool Facts	National Home Education Research Institute	Various
Website	Homeschooling in the UK increases 40% over three years	BBC News	2018
Website	Homeschooling, freedom of conscience, and the school as a republican sanctuary: An analysis of arguments representing polar conceptions of the secular state and religious neutrality	Paul Oh	2016
Video	The later the better: The argument for a later school-starting age	Dr. Paula Rothermel	2014

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