HomeSchooler.org.uk

"In the UK, home education, or home-schooling, is an issue that has attracted little public, governmental or academic attention. Yet the number of children who are home educated is steadily increasing and the phenomenon has been referred to as a 'quiet revolution'. This paper neither celebrates nor denigrates home educators; its aim rather, is to identify and critically examine the two dominant discourses that define the way in which the issue is currently understood. First, the legal discourse of parental rights, which forms the basis of the legal framework and, secondly, a child psychology/common-sense discourse of 'socialisation', within which school attendance is perceived as necessary for healthy child development..."