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May 20, 2005
Article on Socialization
Even though we haven't offically started homeschooling yet. (We have 1.5 weeks of preschool left) I have already been asked the socialization question a handful of times.
Homeschoolers are at least as well-socialized as public school students – most of them better-socialized, according to Susan McDowell, author of "But What About Socialization? Answering the Perpetual Home Schooling Question: A Review of the Literature."McDowell, who received a doctoral degree in educational leadership from Vanderbilt University and has published numerous articles on homeschooling, researched 24 studies on the socialization of homeschoolers.
"It’s a non-issue today," she said. "All the research shows children are doing well."
When McDowell went to publish one of her stories on homeschooling, her publisher required her to find someone who could argue, based on research, that homeschoolers were less-socialized than traditionally schooled students.
To her surprise, she couldn’t find an academic willing to give that perspective. She had to rely on others who presented theories unsupported by research, she said.
Posted by Julee at May 20, 2005 01:24 PM