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International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education  

Vol. 3, Issue 1, October, 2010. 
 

 

 
 
ISSN:1307-9298 
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Dear IEJEE reader, 
 

With this special issue of International Electronic Journal of Elementary 
Education (IEJEE) you will get the opportunity to be informed about the 
state-of-the-art in the field of Out of school education.  

Dr. Christian W. Beck and Dr. Thomas Spiegler are two of the active 
researchers within the field in their countries. They have a close contact 
with many other active researchers internationally. Their collaborative 
research network within the field of Out of school education challenges the 
many existing conceptions of education. As the editors of this special issue of 
IEJEE, they have succeeded in getting researchers from different countries 
together. By focusing on social justice, human rights,  respect for the 
individual, parental rights  and fundamentalism in the home education 
movement, the authors inform us about the contemporary approaches and 
perspectives, but also about the challenges the field of Out of school 
education is being facing in different countries. The content of this special 
issue is not only about education outside the public or private sector. 
Articles present several principal approaches to education that all of them 
can be considered as important questions for a societal debate in each 
society.   

I express my gratitude to Dr. Beck and Dr. Spiegler and all the other 
contributors to this special issue of IEJEE.  I am also grateful to Dr. Turan 
Temur, Dr. Gökhan Özsoy and other editorial reviewers for positive 
attitudes and pursuing extra job for the sake of research based knowledge 
development and dissemination of the results through IEJEE.  

 
Prof. Dr. Kamil ÖZERK 
Editor in Chief