一本专写家庭学校出来的成年人对社会融入的书

huge57 · 发表于 2005-10-14 22:30:15

Home Educated and Now Adults:Their Community and Civic Involvement, Views About Homeschooling, and Other Traitsby Brian D. Ray, Ph.D.For nearly 20 years, critics and the curious have been asking about the homeschooled: But how will they do in the “real world” of adulthood? As a corollary, they have also asked: What about socialization? This unique study takes a look at the lives of over 7,000 adults from across the United States who were home educated during their elementary and secondary school years.The purpose of this study was to describe and gain more understanding about these adults. In particular, the focus was on their general demographics, attitudes toward their own home-education experiences, and successes in life. Success was evaluated with respect to civic, social, educational, employment, and worldview traits. The target population was all adults in the United States who had been home educated, regardless of whether thought positively or negatively about having been homeschooled. A written survey (questionnaire) and follow-up interviews were used to gather information about the participants. <a>More Information About ReportThis full-length research report addresses the following topics regarding the participants, the first wave of adults who were educated as a part of the modern homeschool movement:[/url] <a>[/url]<a><li>Homeschool background</li><li>Family history</li><li>

ost-secondary educational and other history</li><li>Civic involvement and learning, current events, style of living</li><li>Thoughts about life, marriage, educational plans, and so forth</li><li>Work, employment, household income</li><li>Household, family, children,</li><li>Beliefs and worldview</li><li>Demographics</li><li>Various other itemsThis comprehensive report, based on a long-awaited study, will answer many of the questions that you have ever had about homeschoolers and how they are doing in adult world after “graduation.”Some of the Findings*Of the 7,306 participants, 5,254 had been homeschooled for at least seven years, and most of the findings and statistics in this full report are based on these adults responses. Some of the findings follow:</li><li>Data on 205 variables were available for analysis.</li><li>Table 1 presents for how many years the subjects (i.e., those homeschooled 7 years or more) were home educated. Thirty percent were homeschooled for 7 to 9 years and 70% were homeschooled for 10 to 14 years.</li><li>Fifty-three percent or more were home educated for every grade level, K through 12th; 84% or more were homeschooled for grades 4th through 12th.</li><li>The 10 reasons most frequently selected for why they or their parents engaged in homeschooling were (a) can give child a better education at home (79.5%), (b) religious reasons (76.7%), © teach child particular values, beliefs, and worldview (73.5), (d) to develop character/morality (69.2%), (e) object to what school teaches (61.7%), (f) poor learning environment at school (56.1%), . . . </li><li>The formal educational attainment of all the participants, who were homeschooled for 7 or more years, is presented in Table 5. Table 7 shows the educational attainment of only the home-educated adults (all of whom reported that they had finished their secondary studies) who were ages 18 to 24 and those in the general U.S. population who were 18 to 24. In the general U.S. population in this age range, 46.2% had attained some college courses or higher; 74.2% of the home-educated had attained some college courses or higher.</li><li>The occupations of these participants are presented in Table 8. The most common was full-time student (49% of the subjects). The other three most common were homemaker/home educator (7.3%), other (7.9%), and professional 1 (e.g., accountant, RN, artist; 6.8%).</li><li>The findings regarding the participants’ attitudes toward having been homeschooled are presented in tables and figures. On a 5-point scale (i.e., 1=Strongly Agree, 5=Strongly Disagree), the mean response to “I am glad that I was homeschooled” was 1.3. The mean response to “Having been homeschooled is an advantage to me as an adult” was 1.4.</li><li>55% strongly agreed and 27% agreed with the statement, “I would homeschool my own children.”</li><li>71% of subjects were participating in any ongoing community service activity (e.g., coaching a sports team, volunteering at a school, or working with a church or neighborhood association), while 37% of similarly aged U.S. adults and 39% of all U.S. adults did so.</li><li>The degree to which the respondents thought they could understand and affect society and government was also addressed. For example, fewer of the home educated (4%) than the general public (35%) thought that “politics and government are too complicated to understand.” About the same percent of the home educated (98%) and the general public (94%) thought that they “could write a letter to government official that clearly states his/her opinion.”</li><li>Statistics on the direct civic involvement of home-educated adults and the general United States population are presented. For all civic activities (e.g., working for candidate/political party/political cause, voting in national/state elections) and at all age groups, the home-educated adults in this study were more civically involved than the general population.</li><li>During the last two weeks, about 97% had not had 5 or more alcoholic drinks in a row (on a single occasion) (mean=.07, s.e. mean=.007, median=.00, n=5254).</li><li>1.7% had ever been convicted of a misdemeanor.</li><li>Taking all things into consideration, 59% of the subjects reported that they were “very happy” with life, while 27.6% of the general U.S. population is “very happy” with life.</li><li>A variety of religious preferences were expressed by the participants. The majority reported that they were Protestants; Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and those who said they were “none” or “other” (in terms of religious beliefs) were also involved in the study.</li><li>94% strongly agreed or agreed to the statement, “My religious beliefs are basically the same as those of my parents.”Some of the Researcher’s Conclusions</li><li>Since the modern homeschool movement began to grow, . . . Questions have been asked about the extent to which they would one day be engaged in civic life, be an active part of public discourse, develop their own worldviews, and treat the values and beliefs of others. Negative critics have claimed, for example, that adults who were home educated would shy away from civic involvement, not be a part of public conversation and debate, not be exposed to values and beliefs different from those of their parents, and end up being intolerant of allowing others to express their viewpoints. Advocates of homeschooling, on the other hand, have long held that the homeschooled would one day be engaged in their communities and civic life and learn to properly function in the adult social, political, and philosophical world. ….. </li><li>These adults who had been homeschooled were much more civically involved than the average adult in the United States.</li><li>Findings from this study also indicate that the home educated think that they can understand and affect society and government more than does the general public.</li><li>The evidence from this study also suggests that adults who were home educated have a commitment to or tolerance of free expression of viewpoints or beliefs that is about as strong as that of the general public.</li><li>Based on the findings of this study, the concerns stressed by Apple (2000), Franzosa (1984), Lubienski (2000, 2003), the National Education Association (2002), and Reich (2001, 2002), that homeschooling would somehow interfere with home-educated adults participating in essential societal activities or that homeschooling inhibits public debate, have no foundation.</li><li>Second, [name of critic of homeschooling withheld] presumes that tax-funded, state-controlled education is good for both individuals and the whole in a nation that was built on principles such as liberty, justice, freethinking, and freedom of religious (and other) expression and practice. Third, he commits the fallacy of false choice; he implies that not committing one’s children to state-run schooling or removing one’s children and family from state-controlled schooling is the same as withdrawing more from common endeavors than if one had joined or remained involved in state-run schooling. And in this he is perhaps also guilty of the slippery slope fallacy, suggesting that if a person removes himself from one form of community (common) activity then he will because of that then remove himself from more community (common) activities.</li><li>There is evidence in this study that negative critics of homeschooling should be concerned if they want themselves or the state to have a stronger influence, and the parents a weaker one, on the education and upbringing of the children, which always involves the development of values, beliefs, and worldview.</li><li>The findings of this study indicate that adults who were home educated are clearly engaged in their local communities and civic activity and will likely do so with a personal philosophy that is very similar to that of their parents and an attitude toward life that are different from the philosophy and attitude they might have learned in a state-run or private institutional school.* The statements above are not necessarily direct quotes from the report, and should not be cited as such.148 pages, book, paperback, with charts and graphs</li>[/url] 此帖由 huge57 在 2005-10-14 22:36 进行编辑...

huge57 · 发表于 2005-10-14 22:38:47

现将这篇介绍引在这里，可供能读英文的朋友浏览，日后有空，我想把他翻出来大家看。

yueyuemather · 发表于 2006-12-24 18:33:51

THANKS A LOT.

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