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Home Education in the United Kingdom

Published:2021 Issue: Volume: Page:178-199
ISSN:2329-5929
Container-title:Global Perspectives on Home Education in the 21st Century
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Author:

Shohel M. Mahruf C.¹^ORCID,Akter Naznin²,Rahman Md Shajedur³^ORCID,Mahmud Arif⁴^ORCID,Ahsan Muhammad Shajjad⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. University of Sussex, UK

2. Milton Keynes College, UK

3. The Open University, UK

4. University of Roehampton, UK

5. Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh

Abstract

Home education is the fastest growing educational movement in the world and the research remains limited on why and how it has become so popular. This chapter highlights the historical development of home education and its legal base in the context of the United Kingdom. It also explores many of the current issues facing the home educators, the government of the UK, and the wider community. Based on the existing literature, it briefly explores the history of the home education movement in the UK and how policy and practice come to this point at this time. It investigates the different perspectives on how and why home education is the fastest growing educational movement in the 21st century's UK.

Publisher

IGI Global

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