What is the mindset of home-schooled children?
Sub-questions
- What are the reasons for choosing home education (HE)?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages for home-schooling when compared to sending children to a traditional school?
- What are the academic outcomes for home educated children?
- Are children who are wholly schooled at home able to handle socially challenging situations compared to traditional schools?
- What are some other educational achievements outside of test results are gained or lost?
- What are some future aspirations?
- How much does the government support home schoolers and could funding be freed up?
- What is the mindset of home-schooled children?
- What are the results they get for GCSE’s ,in college or do they go to university?
Determine what kind of sources are best for your argument.
Create a bibliography as you gather and reference sources.
Systematic Literature Review
Preliminary Literature Search
- if research has already been conducted in the field
- the scale of the research (n of publications; dates; country)
- key themes in the research
Methodology/Research Approach
Questions to help you decide:
- What are typical approaches to research in your discipline?
- Is your approach influenced by prior, similar research?
- Have there been methodological problems with previous research in your chosen area that you want to try and address?
Focusing on your topic, spend an hour researching and thinking about the following questions…
- How/why is the ‘education’ related topic you have chosen important? (in other words, why is it relevant, according to the literature?)
- Have others researched it before?
- How have they researched it?
- How long has it been researched for? (e.g. is there a substantial history to the area or is it an emerging interest)
- Are there any critical aspects or disputed areas of the topic?
