TY  - CONF
A1  - Donnelly, Michael P.
T1  - Creature of the state? : homeschooling, the law, human rights, and parental autonomy
T2  - 25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology Frankfurt am Main 15–20 August 2011 ; Paper Series ; 053
N2  - The demarcation of authority between parents and the State regarding education of children has become an increasingly complex issue over the past three decades. During the same period the number of parents around the world choosing educational alternatives such as homeschooling has grown exponentially, causing significant legislative and jurisprudential shifts in the United States as well as other Western nations. If the State is responsible for education or has a significant interest therein, then it must have broad authority by which to prescribe the method, mechanism, and acceptable outcomes of education; it must also be able to review and enforce these desired outcomes. If parents, on the other hand, are responsible, then it is the State’s duty to defer to parents absent a compelling reason to interfere. A survey of the philosophical foundations from ancient to modern times demonstrates the tension between the State and parents in the realm of education; however, modern human rights norms contained in post-1945 international human rights documents provide explicit grounds on which the State must defer to parental choice in education.
T3  - 25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology Frankfurt am Main 15–20 August 2011 ; Paper Series - 053 
KW  - homeschooling
KW  - home education
KW  - parental autonomy
KW  - religious freedom
KW  - educational freedom
KW  - compulsory education
KW  - persecution
Y1  - 2012
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/24911
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-249118
PB  - Goethe-Univ.
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -