Little Bears Family Homeschool
Links for Parents
* Support Groups * Web Resources * Homeschooling Family Homepages * Magazines *
Homeschooling Support groups etc.
* UK * Europe * America * Elsewhere *
Christian Support Groups
Home Service provides support for Christian home educators, including skills testing. Membership is £10 per year, which includes a subscription to Home Time magazine, contacts list, leaflets and discount card for entry to various museums. They also provide free progress testing and organise Christian home education conferences. http://www.alphainfo.co.uk/homeservice/ E-mail:- s.richards@zetnet.co.uk
Non-Christian Support Groups
Education Otherwise:
This support group for home
educators in the UK was started in the 1970's. They have several
publications on home education and provide local home educating
networks, legal advice, ID cards and so on. http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/e_o/mindex.htm
Herald (Home Education Resources and Learning
Development), provides a similar service to Education Otherwise,
but also provides ready-made Unit Studies
Herald, Kelda Cottage, Lydbrook, Gloucester, GL17 9SX. They now
have their own website at http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.stanbrook/index.htm
Christian Support Groups
The Maranatha Foundation is an American organisation based in the UK, which provides Support for home educators through TEACH: The European Academy for Christian Homeschooling. It also offers ACE (Accelerated Christian Education) curriculum resources. http://www.christian-education.org/html/HomeEd.html
Non-Christian Support Groups
m.a.t.s.:
Homeschooling in Sweden
From what I can gather,
there are very few people homeschooling in Sweden, and some of
the local education authorities are reluctant to allow parents to
educate their children at home despite it being their legal right
to do so, but it does seem to be a growing movement. http://hem.passagen.se/matshem/index.htm
o.t.h.:
Homeschooling in Norway
Homeschooling is growing in
Norway for many reasons, including the fact that the school
entrance age has been lowered to 6! http://bdd.no/oth
There are thousands of support groups in the US, and these tend to be arranged both locally and state-by-state, since laws affecting home education vary depending upon which state you happen to live in.
Christian Support Groups
One of the best sites I have found, which lists mostly Christian US support groups, is at http://www.mache.org
Non-Christian Support Groups
There is a main national organisation which defends home educators in the event of having to fight "City Hall" over their decision to homeschool, and will let you know the legal requirements for your State: the Homeschool Legal Defence Association: http://www.hslda.org
Christian Support Groups
The World-wide Service (WES) of the Parents National Education Union (PNEU), originally formed by Charlotte Mason, provides a comprehensive service of support and curriculum, primarily for missionary families abroad, but also supplies to home educating families at home in the UK and the rest of the world. They can be contacted at: The World-wide Education Service of the PNEU, Strode House, 44-50 Osnaburgh Street, London NW1 3NN.
For more information on the Charlotte Mason method, click here
Non-Christian Support Groups
Australia
http://homeschool.3dproductions.com.au/
Canada
http://www.life.ca This is a really useful site, with tips on how to
approach subjects etc.
New Zealand
http://ourworld.compuserv.com/homepages/astley/homeeduc.htm Some friends of ours have just returned
to the UK from living in New Zealand. Apparently homeschooling is
not uncommon there since people tend to live in far-flung places
away from schools, and so the Government actually supports home
educators with a comprehensive programme.
Despite the contentious title, the "School is dead...learn in freedom" website is a really good site with some really useful links. I would recommend it! http://learninfreedom.org/
The Mining Company has a homeschooling section with useful links:- http://homeschooling.miningco.com/
Make contacts with other home educators here:- http://www.caro.net/~joespa/hspeople.htm
Homeschooling Family Homepages
Mary's Miscellaneous site: This is one of my favourite sites with some good links, lovely graphics.http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/3756/
The Zentek family Homeschooling Homepage
This is another American Christian homeschooling family. This is
the site that encouraged me to set up the Little Bears website! http://members.tripod.com/~kzentek/main.html They also produce the "Mommies at
Home Cyberjournal"
The Buttles Homepage:- This is the homepage of my e-friends, David and Karen Buttle, an American/English Christian home educating family living in the UK, http://www.oldpaths.mcmail.com/
Plum Creek Schoolhouse - the lovely site of a Christian part-time homeschooling family from Missouri: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/6704/homeschooling.html
The Fairheads' Homepage:- A UK Christian home educating family living in Cyprus. Has some particularly useful links on socialisation: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/3262
* The Teaching Home * Mary Pride's Practical Homeschooling Magazine * links to follow...
Home Ed Press produces some helpful documents:- http://www.home-ed-magazine.com
The Ecclectic Homeschool Magazine http://eho.org
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