Library Services to Homeschoolers
Publisher,Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
Publication Date,
Format, Paperback
Weight, 181.44 g
No. of Pages, 123
Library Services to Homeschoolers: A Guide will help librarians understand and serve their homeschooling community.
Chapter 1 covers the early history of homeschooling and how compulsory education changed how our children were schooled.
Chapter 2 explores the homeschool revolution, when parents began to take back the education of their children.
Chapter 3 looks at homeschooling today and the way laws, advocacy groups, and COVID-19 all contributed to a surge in homeschooling families.
Chapter 4 examines the various methods parents use to educate their children at home. From an at home classrooms to travelschooling, parents are creative in teaching their children.
Chapter 5 is the how-to-do-it for libraries. Learn how public libraries can help parents and caregivers teach their children by providing a place, materials, programs, and more.
Chapter 6, explores various ways of reaching the homeschooling community we want to serve.
Chapter 7 looks at the growing diversity in home education.
Finally, Chapter 8 peers into the future of homeschooling, helping us prepare for the needs of future homeschooling families.
As a teen librarian struggling to connect with homeschoolers this book has given me the tools and confidence to create the pathways.