Can intimacy justify home education?

Theory and Research in Education

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 363-381

  Merry, Michael S ^a   Howell, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attentive parenting; home education; intimacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350637412     PISSN: 14778785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1477878509343193     Document Type: Article

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