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Category Archives: Parental Motivation
QUIVERFULL: A Journalist’s Account of a Homeschooling Sub-Culture, Part 3
This post is the final installment of my treatment of Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement. In my first post I summarized the book’s content. In my second post I offered a few critiques and generalizations. Here I’d … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Parental Motivation
Tagged Albert Mohler, Amish, Christian Right, Doug Phillips, Gary North, Geoffrey Botkin, God's Harvard, Half-Way Covenant, Hanna Rosin, Harvard College, Jr., Kathryn Joyce, Michael Farris, Mormons, Old Order Mennonite, Patriarchy, Patrick Henry College, Protestantism, Puritans, Quiverfull, R.C. Sproul, Reconstructionism, Religious Right, Rousas J. Rushdoony, Rousas Rushdoony, Southern Baptist, Unitarianism, Yale Divinity School
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QUIVERFULL: A Journalist’s Account of A Homeschooling Sub-Culture, Part 2
This post continues my review of Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement. In part 1 I summarized Joyce’s book. Here I will offer three criticisms and then try to generalize a bit from her data. In part 3 I’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Parental Motivation
Tagged Autonomy, birthrate, democracy, Family Wage, feminism, Kathryn Joyce, megachurches, Patriarchy, Pippa Norris, Quiverfull, Ronald Inglehart, Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide, Sexual Revolution, The Atlantic
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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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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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Joseph Murphy Reviews Kunzman and Gaither, “Homeschooling: A Comprehensive Survey of the Research”
Joseph Murphy, is the Frank W. Mayborn Chair of Education and Associate Dean at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. He has authored over 20 books, including, most recently, Homeschooling in America: Capturing and Assessing the Movement, of which you can read … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Achievement, Civics, College/Postsecondary, Curriculum, International, Legal, Parental Motivation, Pedagogy, Policy/Regulation, Public Schools, Socialization, Special Needs, Technology
Tagged Joseph Murphy, Milton Gaither, Other Education, Peabody College, Rob Kunzman, Robert Kunzman, Vanderbilt University
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Gretchen Abernathy Reviews (in English) Elizalde, Urpí, and Tejada, “Diversidad, Participación y Calidad Educativas”
Record: Elizalde, M., Urpí, C., and Tejada, M., “Diversidad, participación y calidad educativas: necesidades y posibilidades del Homeschooling”[“Diversity, Parent Involvement and Quality Education: Needs and Possibilities of Homeschooling”], in Estudios sobre educación, vol. 22 (2012), pp. 55-72. [Available here] María … Continue reading
Posted in International, Parental Motivation, Policy/Regulation
Tagged Carme Urpí, María Ángeles Sotés Elizalde, María del Coro Molinos Tejada, Spain, Universidad de Navarra
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Cheryl Fields-Smith Reviews Mazama and Lundy, “African American Homeschooling as Racial Protectionism”
Record: Mazama, A. and Lundy, G. (2012). African American homeschooling as racial protectionism. Journal of Black Studies, 43(7), 723-748. Summary: Mazama and Lundy conducted a study of homeschooling among 74 African American families representing metropolitan communities across the South, Midwest, … Continue reading
Posted in Parental Motivation, Race/Ethnicity
Tagged Afrocentric, Ama Mazama, Brown v. Board of Education, Cheryl Fields-Smith, Garvey Lundy, Heather Williams, Journal of Black Studies, Martin Luther King, Meca R. Williams-Johnson, Monica Wells Kisura, Racial Protectionism, Racial Protectionists, Self-Taught, Their Highest Potential, University of Georgia, Vanessa Siddle Walker
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A PROFILE OF HOMESCHOOLING: Why do South Dakota Parents Homeschool?
Record: Bonnie F. Boschee and Floyd Boschee, “A Profile of Homeschooling in South Dakota” in Journal of School Choice: Research, Theory, and Reform 5, no. 3 (2011): 281-299. Summary: Floyd Boschee, emeritus professor of education at University of South Dakota, … Continue reading
Posted in Parental Motivation
Tagged and Reform, Bonnie F. Boschee, Brian Ray, Floyd Boschee, HSLDA, Journal of School Choice: Research, Northern State University, Theory, University of South Dakota
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LINKING PARENTAL MOTIVATIONS: Comparing Parents who Homeschool with Those who Don’t
Record: Christa L. Ice and Kathleen V. Hoover-Dempsey, “Linking Parental Motivations for Involvement and Student Proximal Achievement Outcomes in Homeschooling and Public Schooling Settings” in Education and Urban Society 43, no. 3 (May 2011): 339-369. [Abstract available here] Summary: Hoover-Dempsey … Continue reading
Posted in Parental Motivation, Public Schools
Tagged Christa L. Ice, Education and Urban Society, Kathleen V. Hoover-Dempsey
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