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United States from 1852-1918 a majority of children were educated by their families or communities. This early type of home education was the norm worldwide until the turn of the century, and is still widely practiced in developing countries. However, in developed countries since the universal adoption of such compulsory education laws home education has been driven into a more deviant subcategory. As a result, the homeschooling community as an identifiable social subcategory and centralized…

Description and Analysis The Philippines have 7,000 islands total (it is an archipelago) and consists of regions with different dialects. Many beliefs and traditions are similar to Spanish ancestors since the Philippines were colonized by the Spaniards for 300 years. Despite the Western influences like buildings, food, medicine, music, and fashion, some provinces like the Negro Occidental still practice some traditional healing methods due to their cultural beliefs and lack of access to Western…

Should Children be Homeschooled? “There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent” Mahatma Gandhi. Before 1852, Homeschooling was the most prominent method of teaching. According to Christine Foster, the most preeminent reason that households began taught from their home was the presumption that the public school system “declined in academic rigor and lacked of moral guidance”. However, many parents felt that neither public nor private schools suited the…

Introduction Of the CAM therapies, acupuncture and chiropractic manipulation are the most widely accepted (Barnes, Bloom & Nahin, 2007); both have been scientifically validated for the treatment of chronic pain (Bronfort, Haas, Evans, Leininger & Triano, 2010; Vickers, Cronin, Maschino, Lewith, MacPherson, Foster, Sherman, Witt & Linde, 2012). However, as the conventional medical view tends to reduce chiropractic care and traditional Chinese medicine to the manipulation of the spine and…

establish a diagnosis. By mainly focusing on a particular aspect of the disease, instead of the body as a whole, conventional medicine usually does not require lifestyle changes to support the prescribed medication or treatment. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is also sometimes called holistic medicine. CAM attempts to determine how individuals contribute to their health through beliefs and…

few hours each day and get a more quality education than what parents can provide. It is in the child’s best interest as well as the parent’s to be able to go to public school. According to Isabel Lyman in her article “Homeschooling Is a Viable Alternative Education” states that homeschooling…

How many students are homeschooled in the United States? In 2010, the United States had approximately 308,745,538 people, and of that 53,980,105 were between the ages of five and seventeen (Population Clock). According to the National Center for Educational Statistics it states, “approximately 3% of the school-age population was homeschooled in 2012.” Homeschooling means that there has to be a parent who is a stay at home parent, and not many parents are willing to do that (Khilawala). Students…

forms of energy healing performed all over the world. These therapies are called “Biofield Therapy” or “Laying on of hands” and it is described as one the oldest forms of healing by The National Institutes of Health Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. (NCCAM) In this genre of therapy the “healer” would place his/her hands into the biofeld region which the patient is surrounded by, but will not touch patients’ physically. By doing this the healer is transferring his/her positive…

As an 8th grade student, the decision of choosing what high school to pick can be a big step or even challenging, but what if homeschooling could be a decision for kids that want to learn one-on, or kids that want to learn more than just the standards that are taught at regular school setting. For some students, its very challenging to learn with fifteen or so students. There are some kids that want learn what they will actually learn in the real world and not stuff that will never help them in…

In addition to this, Orr views that another problem of education is teaching individuals the belief that the world is disconnected (2007, p.19). This disconnect from the world, also demonstrates the problem that “education will damage the sense of wonder- the sheer joy in the created world-“ (Orr, 2007 p. 20). There are many authors that agree with this idea that Orr proposes. For instance, Anthony Weston also believes that education creates a disconnection from the world, which needs to be…