Meaning of home-schooling | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C2]

Examples

“Until then, for many of Australia’s four million students, school is at home – but it’s not home-schooling per se. “Home-schooling is when you make⟳, or buy⟳, your own⟳ curriculum,” says Rebecca English, a professor at Queensland University of Technology’s faculty of education. “[These families] are simply facilitating their children’s learning at home.””

“Home-schooling — an all-encompassing term that describes various forms of learning at home, in cooperative settings or online — is not exactly the same thing as distance learning.”

“Parish’s journey into home-schooling began in 2008, when she was pregnant with her second child and her eldest was entering kindergarten.”

“Many politically powerful conservatives promote⟳ home-schooling as a way to undercut or weaken the influence⟳ of public schools, and to shield their children from the liberalism they believe⟳ public schools foster.”

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