HOME SCHOOLING AS AN ALTERNATIVE EDUCATIONAL MODEL

Dr. Murat Tasdan
Dr. Ozden Demir
Kafkas University

ABSTRACT

The ability to become independent learners has increasing importance today. Homeschooling, with its aim to free individuals’ independent will from school patterns, is a model that values learners as individuals, helps them to realize themselves, and enables a systematized education alternative based on the capacity of learning to learn. This study reviews the conceptual base, history, approaches, advantages, and limitations of homeschooling and explains its role in learner education. In addition, it discusses the fundamental principles of education alternative based on homeschooling and reviews the studies in the field. At the and of these evaluations the teaching on homeschooling, also diffucult to be applied it may be said that it could be can alternative model with the reason of the families’ social-economic support, legal procedures, financial resource and the lack of technological and material such as in Turkey Education System.

KEYWORDS

Homeschooling, Home education, Alternative educational models.

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