HEM Editor’s Blog» Bowling Alone http://homeedmag.com/editorial From the editors and publishers of Home Education Magazine Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:23:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Leaderless Ant Colonies? http://homeedmag.com/editorial/resources/books/leaderless-ant-colonies/ http://homeedmag.com/editorial/resources/books/leaderless-ant-colonies/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:29:09 +0000 Helen http://www.homeedmag.com/editorial/?p=295

Leaderless Ant Colonies?

Milton Gaither has an interesting paragraph in his review of Greg and Martine Millman’s book: Historians and organization theorists will be very interested in the Millmans’ chapter on Homeschool Groups. It begins by connecting homeschooling to the “emergence” scholarship of John H. Holland, explaining that homeschooling is an unplanned and uncontrolled system of networks built “from the bottom up by thousands upon thousands of individuals making free choices about education” who nevertheless coalesce into “educational communtities that are as stable and distinctive” as the city neighborhoods studied by Jane Jacobs or the leaderless ant colonies studied by Deborah Gordon. The Millmans also draw on the “social capital” framework of Robert Putnam’s influential Bowling Alone. They explain how homeschool groups provide rich social bonds of connectivity and reciprocity for their members. “Leaderless ant colonies,” eh? That might explain a few things.

Leaderless Ant Colonies?

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Milton Gaither has an interesting paragraph in his review of Greg and Martine Millman’s book:

Historians and organization theorists will be very interested in the Millmans’ chapter on Homeschool Groups. It begins by connecting homeschooling to the “emergence” scholarship of John H. Holland, explaining that homeschooling is an unplanned and uncontrolled system of networks built “from the bottom up by thousands upon thousands of individuals making free choices about education” who nevertheless coalesce into “educational communtities that are as stable and distinctive” as the city neighborhoods studied by Jane Jacobs or the leaderless ant colonies studied by Deborah Gordon. The Millmans also draw on the “social capital” framework of Robert Putnam’s influential Bowling Alone. They explain how homeschool groups provide rich social bonds of connectivity and reciprocity for their members.

“Leaderless ant colonies,” eh? That might explain a few things.

Leaderless Ant Colonies?

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