美国“家庭学校”运动及其新趋势

Research on the homeschooling movement in the U.S:problem and new trends

本文从澄清一些有关家庭学校的概念入手 ,介绍了家庭学校的起源和有关家庭学校的若干重要问题 ,重点分析了实施家庭学校的方法 ,最后讨论了家庭学校发展的几个新趋势和国内外对这一领域的研究状况 ,认为家庭学校运动在继续发展的同时会面临很多新的机遇和挑战 ,国内教育学术界应该紧跟它的发展 ,着手开展对它的系统的研究。

Homeschooling is a fresh topic to Chinese education academe and related research is almost unavailable, but in the U.S it has experienced great growth and related research is very rich. First, the paper briefly introducing the definition and origin of homeschooling, then summarizes the some problems about homeschooling in detail. After these, the paper analyzes the methods of homeschooling practice. Based on the above introduction and discussion the paper highlights some new trends of homeschooling movement and views that homeschooling will continue to grow and at the same time face many new opportunities and challenges.