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Family Unity Objectives of Parents Who Teach Their Children: Ideological and Pedagogical Orientations to Home Schooling.

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Mayberry, Maralee; Knowles, J. Gary – Urban Review, 1989

Examines parents who teach their children at home. While families have complex motives for home schooling, a common factor is parents' desire to maintain or further develop family unity, and to resist the effects of urbanization and modernization on the family. Suggests benefits of home/public school partnerships. (AF)

Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Family (Sociological Unit), Family School Relationship