The Transmission of Values and the Transition into Adulthood Within the Context of Home Education

Abstract

The current study explored the transmission of values and beliefs and the transition into adulthood within the context of home education through semi-structured open-ended interviews with four formerly home-educated young adults. The interviewees described their relationship with their parents as strong both now and while homeschooling but the younger two participants did not show clear signs that they closely maintained their parents' religious beliefs. All participants indicated that their transition to adulthood contained some transitional bumps but the difficulty of these bumps was mitigated by a strong parent-child relationship. The youngest participant seemed to be in the midst of a transitional strain.

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Note. Some questions were adapted from the book Home Educated and Now Adults (Ray, 2004).

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BRADEN RYAN HOELZLE

Braden Hoelzle is a doctoral candidate in education at Southern Methodist University with an emphasis in Quantitative Research Methods. He has an MA in both Theological Studies and Biblical Exposition.