Homeschooling is a parent-led home based education, which is currently enjoying newdiscovered acceptance both locally and internationally. To understand this new alternative education, we review a number of homeschooling studies from the local and overseas associated with the history and development of homeschooling, factors that led to homeschooling; outcome or impacts of homeschooling on school, families and children, and concerns, challenges as well as critics of homeschooling. We then document the findings of reasons that led to homeschooling and its outcomes to give an overview of homeschooling to provide a guideline and reflection to parents who intend to homeschool their children. Also, it is significant for the current conventional education system to re-attract families who chose homeschool as well as to refine the current educational practice to cater the modern generation. Meanwhile, we also document concerns, challenges, and critics towards homeschooling to ameliorate homeschooling as the growing alternative. � 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, London.

This study was carried out to examine how messy plays stimulate creativity and imagination among preschool children. The interest of the study was to identify three types of messy play that can help preschooler to evolve their creativity and imagination as well as to recognise the creative and imagination ability exhibited by preschool children throughout messy play activities. The participants consist of two schools principal, and a total of eight children aged five and six years of two selected preschools. The principals were interviewed, and their verbal answers were taken into account and transcribed into a data form. Three types of messy play activities that differ in material were taken part by the eight children. They were also interviewed, observed and recorded in video during the activities carried out and all results collected were transcribed and analyzed based on the development of creativity and imagination. This study was conducted using qualitative research methodology. The results have shown that types of messy play are practicable to encourage preschool children in the development of creativity and imagination. In addition, results of study also show the creative and imagination ability in preschoolers have been demonstrated comprehensively through messy play activities carried out.To sum up, it is indisputable that messy play does arouse preschool children�s creativity and imagination. Further suggestions of research could focus on children aged four and below to investigate their creativity and imagination through messy play as well as further aspects of development that could be intensify all through messy play activities. � 2015 Taylor and Francis Group, London.