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New book about home education in Northern-Europe
Home education conference 2003
Articles and speeches on home education (in English)
OTH in English
Home
education / homeschooling in Norway- Centre for Information (OTH):
Motives
for home education – research results
Modern home education started in Norway1992/93. Two entrepeneur-families
had hard times, with police, fining and social-services threat. The right to home
educate is confirmed as a right for all. Since the first School-law (1739) and
an also today Norway has compulsory education and not compulsory schooling
Two court-cases on home education processed in 1995 and in
1996-2000. The last case, called: “The Mosvik case” (Mosvik kommune in the
middle of Norway), went through all three levels in the Norwegian court-system,
before the case was closed because of lack of evidence. The concrete issue in
Mosvik-case was conflict about the local school-authorities supervision and
control with home education. The case developed to a principal home education
case in Norway: After 2000 home education in Norway: has developed in a more
liberal direction.
The situation to day:
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Children
from year 6 are obligated to primary and lower secondary education, but
not schooling (10 years). § 2-1 in Education law (opplæringsloven) states
that education can be “otherwise”. Education otherwise is private schools or
home education.
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After giving
local school-authorities (kommune) a message about your home education, you can
start.
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Local school-authorities
are by the law obligated to supervise home education. Most used procedure is a
visit from a supervise-teacher twice a year. Local school-authorities can give
relevant knowledge-tests, if they want. A sentence in a law-preparing document to
the Educational law (1998) states that supervision must be: ”in understanding
with the parents”.
The number of home educated pupils in Norway was in1996 ca 40 students, in
December 2002 about 400 ( research estimated number). In April 2010 is 400
still the best but quit unsure estimate of numbers.
A National home education conference was arranged every summer since 1996
– 2006 by OTH: Since 2007 the conferences has been arranged by Norwegian Home
Education Association (NHUF).
WE
WANT TO COMMUNICATE WITH HOME EDUCATORS AND OTHERS INTERESTED IN HOME
EDUCATION!
OTH-contacts:
Marta Straume martastraume@hotmail.com
Christian Beck c.w.beck@ped.uio.no
Norsk hjemmeundervisningsforbund (NHUF) Norwegian Home Education Ass..