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HEdNI FAQ on socialisation

Mike Fortune-Wood's article on the UK Home-Ed website

A home-educated teenager's letter on socialisation and home-education


Research from The Fraser Institute in Canada (pdf file)
In summary, this research concluded that homeschooled children are, on average, more academically and socially advanced than school-attending students, that the typical homeschooled child participates in a wide variety of "extracurricular" activities, that homeschooled students are more sociable than their school peers, and more independent of peer values as the grow older. Here's a quote from the Director of Education Policy at the Fraser Institute: "Popular belief holds that home schooled children are socially backward and deprived, but research shows the opposite: that home schooled children are actually better socialized than their peers. Some studies have shown that home schooled children are happier, better adjusted, more thoughtful, mature and sociable than children who attend institutional schools."

Research from the Indiana University School of Education

More research on home-education and socialisation

Homeschooling and the myth of socialization

"No thank you, we don't believe in socialization" - from a Tennessee homeschool information site

Homeschooling - what is it? addresses socialisation and other "issues"