Home schooling
From Library of Congress Subject Headings
Home schooling
- Here are entered works on the education of school-age children in the home setting rather than in a traditional private or public school. Works on education for children confined to their homes by illness, physical injury, or emotional condition, provided by an itinerant or visiting teacher, are entered under [Homebound instruction.]
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88002564
- info:lc/authorities/sh88002564
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh88002564#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Domestic education
- Education, Home
- Home-based education
- Home education
- Home instruction
- Home teaching by parents
- Homeschooling
- Schooling, Home
Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
Related Terms
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Earlier Established Forms
- Domestic education
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Colfax, D. Homeschooling for excellence, 1988.
- found: Encyclopedia of education, c2003: v. 3, p. 1060 (home schooling refers to the practice of parents educating a child at home, rather than in a conventional private or public school setting. These children would otherwise be enrolled in elementary or secondary school.)
- found: ERIC thes. (Home schooling: provision of compulsory education in the home as an alternative to traditional public/private schooling--often motivated by parental desire to exclude their children from the traditional school environment)
- found: Hennepin (Home schooling)
- notfound: Web. 3
LC Classification
- LC40-LC40.5
General Notes
- Here are entered works on the education of school-age children in the home setting rather than in a traditional private or public school. Works on education for children confined to their homes by illness, physical injury, or emotional condition, provided by an itinerant or visiting teacher, are entered under [Homebound instruction.]
Example Notes
- Note under [Homebound instruction]
Change Notes
- 2003-09-25: new
- 2006-12-22: revised
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