Home schooling: Learning from dissent

Luke, Catherine. (2003, April 3). Home schooling: Learning from dissent. Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, Issue #25. Retrieved 7/10/13 from https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cjeap/article/view/42689. (Does well at clearly and dispassionately presenting homeschooling as a challenge to the assumptions implicit in the state/public school system of Canada, or of any nation. “While home schooling is at a

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Homeschooling within the public school system

Horsburgh, Fergus Bruce Norman. (2005). Homeschooling within the public school system. Master’s thesis, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. (Recognizes the tensions and conflicts associated with parents wanting to be in control of their children’s education while also wanting public tax funding to support their home-based public schooling that the parents want to call homeschooling.

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Understanding Canadians’ declining confidence in public education

Guppy, Neil; & Davies, Scott. (1999). Understanding Canadians’ declining confidence in public education. Canadian Journal of Education I Revue canadienne de l’education, 24(3), 265-280. Retrieved 9/10/13 from http://blogs.ubc.ca/newproposals/files/2009/03/guppy_davis.pdf (Mention homeschooling, home schooling, but homeschooling is not any kind of focus of the paper. “Yet, applying Loveless’ reasoning to the Canadian case raises problems. First, in

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