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31 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 2,082 Diverse Education Studies and Reforms papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • Most specifically, the purpose of this essay is to answer the following questions: Who teaches Black homeschooled children? How are they taught? And, what are they taught? What emerges is that while African American homeschooling practices vary widely based on parents’ teaching and learning philosophies and ultimate objective, a common tendency is the implementation of a curriculum inclusive of African/African American history and culture.

    African American homeschooling practices: Empirical evidence · 2015 · DOI

  • The complex notion of the public/private distinction of social spheres has not been systematically investigated in sociolinguistics; particularly in the case of bidialectal kindergarten age children and how they construct their social lives around this distinction in a public environment such as that of school.

    Maya the Bee, Scooby Doo and other stories: How the public and private distinction is depicted in children’s bidialectal interactions in kindergarten · 2013 · DOI

  • The results of the study uncover areas for further research into the role of education professionals on student experiences, the place of home education in relation to formal education and assessment of collaborative educational programmes which combine aspects of formal education with home education.

    Home education transitions with formal schooling: Student perspectives · 2007

  • Home schooling has sparked passionate and rancorous debates, yet other than general demographics, relatively little is known about the families who choose to educate their children at home (Welner, 2002).

    Resisting Bureaucracy: A Case Study of Home Schooling · 2007 · DOI

  • dewey Larry Cuban-and defines an issue which, arguably, has not been explored as systematically in the 100 years that have followed the publication of The Educational Situatio.

    The educational situation: As concerns the elementary school · 2001 · DOI

  • Lack of evidence was apparent even in the now-classic "Pygmalion Study" (Rosenthal & Jacobson, 1968), which claimed to show that teachers" expectations affect student intelligence.

    The Self-Fulfillment of the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy · 1987 · DOI

  • Where there is congruence between the student’s orientation and the professional school’s emphasis then the socialization process is likely to be more markedly different in its effects than when such congruence is lacking. Moreover, when congruence is lacking it seems quite likely that pressures will be brought to bear on the student to modify his orientation.

    Education and Professional Socialization · 1968 · DOI

  • In this context, the all-day school is not understood merely as prolonged attendance at school after lessons, but as a broader organisational and educational arrangement combining teaching, care, support, meaningful leisure, physical activity, and community-based participation.

    VISOS DIENOS MOKYKLOS IR ĮTRAUKIOJO UGDYMO SĄSAJOS: SUOMIJOS ATVEJIS · 2026 · DOI

  • The policy frames home-educated children as invisible and at risk, positioning bureaucratic oversight as the primary solution despite limited evidence of systemic safeguarding failures.

    Constructing Home Education as a Problem: Why a Register Will Not Fix What Policy Presents as Broken · 2026 · DOI

  • Margaret Archer's concept of ‘fractured’ reflexivity provides a novel lens for unpacking the understudied processes through which such families move involuntarily into home education.

    No other choice: The fracturing of reflexivity in families' pathways into (non‐)elective home education in England · 2026 · DOI

  • Its mission, which is no longer limited to the triad of reading, writing, and counting, nor to a set of professional learning directly related to the world of work, is also to train participatory citizens, informed, competent, supportive…

    Escola pública em Democracia. Para quê? · 2023 · DOI

  • “For reasons that I have only come to understand in the course of writing this book, Little Red is scarcely mentioned in the standard histories of American education.

    Jane Roland Martin, School Was Our Life: Remembering Progressive Education (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2018) · 2021 · DOI

  • There is warranted concern among educationalists about child well-being where a number of school factors have created a system and a society where well-being is at stake.

    THE PRECONDITIONS TO <i>FLOURISHING</i>: STRUCTURAL NECESSITIES FOR ACHIEVING WELL-BEING IN SCHOOLS · 2020 · DOI

  • Morris found it unacceptable for any stratum of society, since true education was lacking and it was all conducted in an atmosphere of bleakness, non-spirituality and "process-mindedness," the opposite of that which he had experienced himself as a child and youth.

    William Morris: A Claim for Education · 2018 · DOI

  • Although residential homes generate much publicity, especially during the festive seasons, not much is known about the children living within the confines of these homes.

    What do they do at home? The literacies of children living in residential care in Malaysia · 2014 · DOI

  • Home schooling thus falls under state law, and these laws vary widely A complex matrix of specific statutory language and judicial interpretations emerged out of the maelstrom of political activism over the issue that started in the late 1970s.

    Home Schooling Goes Mainstream. · 2009

  • Above all, today more than ever, educatorsmust prepare students for the unknown and the unpredictable; careers not yet known to us,opportunities that we can not imagine, and for a world so different that we have no idea what it will looklike in thirty or forty years.

    Preparing Students for the College Experience · 2009 · DOI

  • Glenda Jackson Monash University Home education is a well established phenomenon in Australia but little is known about the movement of students between home schooling and formal education and how students view and handle the transitions.

    Home education transitions with formal schooling: Student perspectives · 2007

  • Since a comprehensive comparison of the Philadelphia Academy and the Dessau Philanthropine is lacking, it is the aim of this essay to provide at least a sketch of such a comparison.

    Franklin’s Philadelphia Academy and Basedow’s Dessau Philanthropine: Two Models of Non‐denominational Schooling in Eighteenth‐century America and Germany · 2007 · DOI

  • Although home schooling is heavily reported in the news media as a sort of heretical movement, home schooling has received limited research and scholarly attention.

    HOME SCHOOLING: LEARNING FROM DISSENT · 2003

  • This particular problematization is based on and limited by the work of Foucault and addressed from two positions: (1) rules that govern the discourse of education; and (2) disciplinary technologies that produce docile bodies as objects that yield to the discourse.

    The Scientific Discourse of Education: Predetermining the Lives of others — Foucault, Education, and Children · 2000 · DOI

  • Although the results of Rudner's analyses are likely valid for the particular population he studied, his insufficient attention to the data's bias has led to an erroneous picture of homeschooling.

    Contextualizing Homeschooling Data: A Response to Rudner · 1999 · DOI

  • Although the search for more effective schooling is frequently invoked in Vygotskian research, schools themselves are rarely studied from a cultural-historical perspective.

    Recovering History in the Study of Schooling: From the <i>Longue Durée</i> to Everyday Co-Construction · 1999 · DOI

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