Home Schooling

"Pathfinders" are guides to help you get started finding information on a topic. A St. Kate's Reference Librarian has written this guide to help you perform Library research for your structured controversy paper and presentation. It is not meant to be an exhaustive list of resources, but some places to begin your hunt.

Please stop or phone the Reference Desk (651-690-6652) if you have questions or need further assistance.

Contents:   Reference Works  | Finding Books  |  Journal Articles  |  Internet Sites

Reference Books

Encyclopedia of Education 2nd ed.

Reference LB15 .E47 2003
See "Home schooling," vol. 3, pp. 1060-63

 

Encyclopedia of American Education

Reference LB17 .U54 2001

See "Home schooling," vol. 2, pp. 533-35

 

Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society

Reference HQ767.84 .E53 2004
See "Homeschooling," vol. 2, pp. 439-40

 

The Encyclopedia of Parenting Theory and Research.

Reference HQ755.8 .E523 1999

See "Home schooling," p. 216-218
 

Children, Young Adults, and the Law

Reference KF479 .A68 A76 1998
See "home school" in the index
 

Religion and the Law

Reference KF4865 .A68 A54 1999
See "Home Schooling," pp. 197-198

Note: Please remember that Reference Books may not be taken from the Library

Finding Books

Use CLICnet to search for books and videos in the Library at St. Kate's and at other ACTC colleges. Use the "Request" feature to obtain items not at St. Kate's.

    Search term:
              Subject:    home schooling

Finding Journal Articles

About off-campus access

1. Use EBSCO's Academic Search Premier and InfoTrac's Expanded Academic ASAP to look for journal articles, adding enough terms to limit the search to your topic. To find only scholarly journals, click before the box for "scholarly (peer reviewed) journals" or "peer-reviewed publications."

    Search Term(s):    home schooling

2.  Use ProQuest Newspapers to look for articles in major newspapers, including the New York Times, Washington Post and Minneapolis Star Tribune.

    Keyword:   home schooling

3. Education Journals at ProQuest : search for home schooling

4. Also see ERIC Education database for articles.

    Keyword: home schooling

Internet Resources

HSLDA: Home School Legal Defense Association
http://www.hslda.org/

Home Schooling: a collection of web resources from the Librarians' Index to the Internet
http://www.lii.org

Learn in Freedom
http://learninfreedom.org/

Homeschooling: Back to the Future? a policy analysis from the Cato Institute
http://www.cato.org/

US Department of Education -- See Home Schooling
http://www.ed.gov

National Home Education Research Institute
http://www.nheri.org/

Minnesota Department of Education -- Home Schooling
http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/Academic_Excellence/School_Choice/Nonpublic_School_Choice/Home_Schooling/index.html