Discussing the pros and cons of the homeschool trend
BevK December 3rd, 2007
Long article on whether homeschooling is a good thing or not. The article is found at Jewish Exponent, so there is also information about Jewish homeschooling.
Some excerpts:
Ed Collom, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Southern Maine, who has extensively studied the phenomenon, said that he finds homeschooling to be a collective endeavor. Collom, who is not Jewish but is an analyst of this type of education, earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California-Riverside and has written scholarly works about homeschooling.
“Home-schoolers rarely teach in isolation,” he said. “[They] have been very effective in forming their own networks.”
On the other side of the fence, Janine Remillard, associate professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, said that homeschooling could potentially limit a child’s exposure to new ideas, experiences and perspectives.
“Collaboration, communication and interaction are critical components of learning,” she said. “These components are not easy to build into a one-on-one situation.”
