Situated Adult Learning: The Home Education Neighbourhood Group

dc.creator	Dr. Leslie Safran
dc.date	2009-04-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:24:21Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:24:21Z
dc.identifier	1916-8128
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/895733eeffe048dfaf4199fd1512d79b
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/29901
dc.description	Many families who home educate turn to a neighbourhood home education group for support, resources and guidance. The purpose of this paper is to first outline briefly the context of home education in the UK and US, to analyse three different types of home education neighbourhood group as communities of practice and then to theorise how these parents learn some of what it is to be home educators through participation in such groups as members. The analysis is based on evidence from long-term home educating parents collected through thirty-four in-depth interviews and the Community of Practice framework (Wenger, 1998).It will be argued that although communities of practice have variable features depending on the type of neighbourhood home education group a parent joins, they all engage in a form of collective situated life learning which helps transform parents to the point where they become ‘home educators’.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Nipissing University
dc.relation	http://www.nipissingu.ca/jual/Archives/V326/v3262.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1916-8128
dc.source	Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning, Vol 3, Iss 6, Pp 14-36 (2009)
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Situated Adult Learning: The Home Education Neighbourhood Group
dc.type	article