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QUIVERFULL: A Journalist’s Account of a Homeschooling Sub-Culture, Part 1
Record: Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009). Joyce, a freelance journalist based in New York City, here pens an important book on one of the most dynamic subcultures within the homeschooling world: “quiverfull” families … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Parental Motivation
Tagged Above Rubies, Allan Carlson, Bill Gothard, Birthrates, Botkin Sisters, Carmon Friedrich, Charles Provan, Constitution Party, Dawn Irons, Debi Pearl, Doug Phillips, Focus on the Family, Francis Schaeffer, Howard Phillips, James Dobson, Jan Hess, Jerry Falwell, Jonathan Falwell, Jr., Kathryn Joyce, Martha Peace, Mary Pride, Michael Pearl, Moral Majority, Nancy Campbell, No Greater Joy, Patriarchy, Philip Lancaster, Phillip Longman, Quiverfull, R.C. Sproul, Rachel Scott, Rick Hess, Rousas Rushdoony, Southern Baptist Convention
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THE MYTH OF AMERICAN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: A Sweeping Look at the History Behind the U.S. Culture Wars
Record: David Sehat, The Myth of American Religious Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). Summary: Sehat is Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University. Sehat takes one idea and traces its history from the American founding to the … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged 10 Commandments, 14th Amendment, African Americans, Baptist, Biblical Criticism, Bill of Rights, Blasphemy laws, blue laws, Catholics, Civil War, Constitution, Culture War, Darwinism, David Sehat, Decency laws, Dred Scott, Evangelical, Evolution, First Amendment, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, freethinkers, godless Constitution, Great Depression, James Madison, Methodist, moral establishment, Moral Majority, Reconstruction, Second Great Awakening, slavery, Ten Commandments
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WRITE THESE LAWS ON YOUR CHILDREN: Christian Homeschooling in America, Part 2
This post continues my review of Robert Kunzman, Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling(Boston: Beacon, 2009). In part one I summarized the book’s contents and offered a few tepid critiques. Here I’d like … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Annette Lareau, Generation Joshua, GenJ, HSLDA, libertarianism, Michael Farris, Ned Ryun, Robert Kunzman, Theocracy, Unequal Childhoods
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WRITE THESE LAWS ON YOUR CHILDREN: Christian Homeschooling in America, Part 1
Record: Robert Kunzman, Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009). Kunzman, Associate Professor of Education at Indiana University, Bloomington and author of many works on religion, ethics, and education, here … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Brian D. Ray, Brian Ray, Bridgeway Academy, California, Generation Joshua, HSLDA, Indiana, Lawrence Rudner, Oregon, Robert Kunzman, Tennessee, Vermont
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THROUGH THE LENS OF HOME-EDUCATED CHILDREN: Insights from Children About What Motivates Them to Learn
Record: Tara Jones, “Through the Lens of Home-Educated Children: Engagement in Education” in Educational Psychology and Practice (2013): 1-15 [Abstract Available Here] Summary: Jones is a PhD student at the University of the West of Scotland. Here she presents the … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy
Tagged grounded theory, Photovoice, snowball sampling, Tara Jones, United Kingdom, University of the West of Scotland
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HOMESCHOOLING THE GIFTED: Thirteen Families Explain their Actions
Record: Jennifer L. Jolly, Michael S. Matthews, and Jonathan Nester, “Homeschooling the Gifted: A Parent’s Perspective” in Gifted Child Quarterly 57, no. 2 (December 2012): 121-134. [Abstract available here] Summary: Jolly is Associate Professor of Elementary and Gifted Education at … Continue reading
Posted in Special Needs
Tagged Gifted Child Quarterly, Gifted Education, grounded theory, Jennifer L. Jolly, Jennifer Lois, Jonathan Nester, Louisiana State University, Michael S. Matthews, phenomenological, purposive sampling, University of North Carolina
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Two Brief Articles on Homeschooling and Child Abuse
Records: Daniel Pollack, “Homeschooling and Child Protection” in Policy and Practice 70, no. 1 (February 2012): 29, 35. [abridged version available here] Meggan Goodpasture, V. Denise Everett, Martha Gagliano, Aditee P. Narayan, and Sara Sinal, “Invisible Children” in North Carolina … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Policy/Regulation
Tagged Aditee P. Narayan, Banita Jacks, Child Protective Services, CPS, D.C., Daniel Pollack, Divins of Non Public Education, Division of Social Services, DNPE, DSS, Duke University, Martha Gagliano, Meggan Goodpasture, North Carolina, North Carolina Medical Journal, Policy and Practice, Sara Sinal, UNC Chapel Hill, V. Denise Everett, Wake Forest, Washington, Yeshiva University
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PARENTAL EDUCATION RIGHTS IN THE U.S. AND CANADA: a Doctoral Dissertation
Record Julio Alberto Lagos, “Parental Education Rights in the United States and Canada: Homeschooling and its Legal Protection” (J.C.D. Dissertation, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, 2011) [Available Here] Lagos’ dissertation seeks to explain the understandings that have emerged in … Continue reading
Posted in International, Legal, Policy/Regulation
Tagged 1982, Alberta, British North America Act, Canada, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Catherine J. Ross, Constitution Act, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Courtenay E. Moran, Deborah R. Schwarzer, Julio Alberto Lagos, Kimberly Yuracko, Meyer v. Nebraska, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Quebec, R. v. Jones, Sean Gates, Tanya Dumas, Timothy Waddell, Troxel v. Granville, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Wiebe, Wisconsin v. Yoder
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HOME IS WHERE THE SCHOOL IS: The Emotional Lives of Homeschooling Mothers, Part 2
Record: Jennifer Lois, Home Is Where the School Is: The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering(New York University Press, 2013). Summary: This book was summarized in my first post, which can be read here. Appraisal: First, a … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Parental Motivation, Religion
Tagged believers, Cheryl Fields-Smith, closed communion, ideologues, inclusives, Joseph Murphy, Linda Hanna, Meca Williams, open communion, oxytocin, pedagogues, snowball sampling, theoretical generalizability, theoretical saturation
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HOME IS WHERE THE SCHOOL IS: The Emotional Lives of Homeschooling Mothers, part 1
Record This is the first of two posts dedicated to Jennifer Lois’ new book Home Is Where the School Is: The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering(New York University Press, 2013). This post summarizes the book. Part … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Parental Motivation
Tagged counterfactual reasoning, emotional epiphany, intensive mothering, Jennifer Lois, sandwich generation, snowball sampling, Teaching Parents Association, time-sensitive identity, TPA, Western Washington University
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