scholarly journals Adapting a Human Physiology Teaching Laboratory to the At-Home Education Setting

Author(s):  
Victor Ong ◽  
Stanley Yamashiro
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Prokosz ◽  
Krzysztof Zajdel

Abstract Home education in these times an alternative to traditional education (school, regardless of the type of facility). In this article, the authors attempted to assess the phenomenon of home education: both from the side of the child’s stay at the facility, as well as the benefits and negative experiences gained in the course of education pursued by carers at home. Article does not answer the question that education is “better” for the baby, but describes the criteria for parents to make an informed choice whether to teach the child at home or at school.


2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Merry ◽  
Charles Howell

Many parents cite intimacy as one of their reasons for deciding to educate at home. It seems intuitively obvious that home education is conducive to intimacy because of the increased time families spend together. Yet what is not clear is whether intimacy can provide justification for one’s decision to home educate. To see whether this is so, we introduce the concept of ‘attentive parenting’, which encompasses a set of family characteristics, and we examine whether and under what conditions attentive parents risk loss of intimacy by sending their children to school; or, alternatively, whether they can avoid this risk by educating children at home. What we will determine is whether families who exhibit the specified characteristics are prima facie justified in educating their children at home under the conditions of interest. We argue that, for attentive parents, home education not only promotes greater intimacy, but also provides insurance against the loss of intimacy that may occur under certain conditions when children attend schools.


Author(s):  
Iradge Ahrabi-Fard

There is a false notion that public school can educate great students. Facing diversity of students’ potential, different timing of growth pattern and varieties of home preparation of students to be a assiduous learner it is serious challenging task. Schools offer a general education to all with some attention to the diversity of students. It is home education, dealing with concentration habits during learning process, valuing educational process and respecting the rules of group learning that are influential in acquiring most from the educational opportunities. School is not able to go against the home culture and re-educate students to behave as a concern and diligent learner if these habits are not emphasized or supported at home. Public education in US is ranked between 18 to 22 in the world (according to different sources). Comparing with the world, American schools as the whole rank first for school structures, are number one for allocation of school budget, the emphasis and requirements of teacher education is number one. America expenditure per student exceed the top ten of the world combined. It is the lack of home education of learning demeanor and respecting the learning process that causes the inferiority. Physical education faces the same general dilemma at school having a very diverse group of students within variety of growth stages, potentials, sizes and capabilities based on their previous experiences. Decent general physical education at school can only offer a limited advancement. It is the responsibilities of parents to learn about the specifics of healthy growth and suitable skill development for their unique child. It is their parental task to act responsibly for the healthy growth of their child concerning: bone density and health, muscular strength, size and endurance, heart development to endure the stress of activities and function well, the range of motion of joints and finally their weight management. All the above detailed items of children healthy growth present requirement for suitable activities to the development of skill learning. Suitably of activities matching the specification of child’s growth is crucial to their development. Expecting school with so many diverse population attend single child’s needs and direct the program to address them is an undue expectation. Home education make a difference in academic progress and proper physical growth and development of children. Being healthy and living healthy is a behavioral development to address potentials that can only be learned at home and may be strengthened at school, not the other way around.


1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Cohen ◽  
Rachel C. Swicker ◽  
David A. Evans

Author(s):  
Sally Elizabeth Anne Varnham

“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas” Agatha Christie There is evidence that more and more parents in the developed countries worldwide are choosing to educate their children at home. This is despite, or because of, the existence of comprehensive government education systems which assume state responsibility. New Zealand and Australia, in common with countries in the European Community, the United States and Canada have education legislation which aims to ensure that education is free, available and compulsory to all children generally between the ages of 5 and 15. Government schools are publicly funded and this funding inevitably comes with varying degrees of state control. There is also, in New Zealand and Australia, private and church education available for those parents who want a formal education for their children outside the government system. Despite these alternatives, parents are increasingly electing not to entrust the education of their children to any of the formal systems and are choosing instead to assume sole responsibility for this education. How do governments respond to this exercise of parental choice? This paper examines the current legal position of home education in Australia and New Zealand. It considers the reasons so many parents are now choosing to opt their children out of schools and keep them at home; and the extent to which the state allows them this choice.


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