Category Archives: Parental Motivation

LEGITIMATE PERIPHERAL PARTICIPATION: How Commitment to Homeschooling Grows

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Milton Gaither

Record: Leslie Safran, “Legitimate Peripheral Participation and Home Education” in Teaching and Teacher Education 26, no. 1 (2010): 107-112. Summary: Safran, a British researcher who has written a few other works on homeschooling and in 2008 completed her doctoral dissertation, … Continue reading →

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THE TEMPORAL EMOTION WORK OF MOTHERHOOD: How Homeschooling Mothers Deal with the Time Crunch

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Milton Gaither

Record: Jennifer Lois, “The Temporal Emotion Work of Motherhood: Homeschoolers’ Strategies for Managing Time Shortage” in Gender and Society, 24, no. 4 (August 2010): 421-446. Summary: Lois, a professor of sociology at Western Washington University, here continues her work focusing … Continue reading →

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HOME EDUCATION IN THE POST COMMUNIST COUNTRIES: the Czech Republic

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Milton Gaither

Record: Yvona Kostelecká, “Home Education in the Post Communist Countries: Case Study of the Czech Republic” in International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 3, no. 1 (October 2010).  Available Here. Summary: Kostelecká, a member of the education faculty at Charles … Continue reading →

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HOME EDUCATION: Three Types of Homeschoolers

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Milton Gaither

Record: Ruth Morton, “Home Education: Constructions of Choice” in International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education 3, no. 1 (October 2010) Available Here. Summary: Morton, a doctoral student at the University of Warwick whose dissertation is a qualitative study of homeschooling … Continue reading →

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CAN INTIMACY JUSTIFY HOME EDUCATION?: A Speculative Argument

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Milton Gaither

Record:  Michael S. Merry and Charles Howell, “Can Intimacy Justify Home Education?” in Theory and Research in Education, November 2009. Summary:  Merry, professor of philosophy of education at the University of Amsterdam and author of an important recent book on … Continue reading →

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BLACK PARENTS’ DECISIONS TO HOME SCHOOL: Four Key Themes

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Milton Gaither

Record:  Cheryl Fields-Smith and Meca Williams, “Motivations, Sacrifices, and Challenges: Black Parents’ Decisions to Home School” in Urban Review 41 (2009): 369-389     Summary:  Fields-Smith, a professor at the University of Georgia, and Williams, at Georgia Southern, here offer an … Continue reading →

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EMOTIONALLY LAYERED ACCOUNTS: How Homeschooling Mothers Justify Their Actions

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Milton Gaither

Record:   Jennifer Lois, “Emotionally Layered Accounts: Homeschoolers’ Justifications for Maternal Deviance” in Deviant Behavior 30, no. 2 (February 2009): 201-234 Summary:  Lois, a sociology professor at Western Washington University, here investigates how homeschooling mothers deal with criticisms of their … Continue reading →

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SOCIAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGE: A Social Theory of Homeschooling

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Milton Gaither

Record:  Patricia M. Greenfield, “Linking Social Change and Developmental Change: Shifting Pathways of Human Development” in Developmental Psychology 45, no. 2 (March 2009): 401-418 Summary:  Greenfield is a luminary in the field of psychocultural research, the comparative study of psychology … Continue reading →

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WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED ABOUT HOMESCHOOLING?

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Milton Gaither

Record:  Eric J. Isenberg, “What Have We Learned About Homeschooling?” in Peabody Journal of Education 82 (2007): 387-409.  Summary:  Isenberg, affiliated with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., here tries to synthesize all of the best research on several topics related to … Continue reading →

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FAMILY TIES: Inside Homeschooling with a Sociologist

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Milton Gaither

Record Gary Wyatt, Family Ties: Relationships, Socialization, and Homeschooling (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007). Summary Wyatt offers here a short book summarizing the results of twelve years as a participant observer in the homeschooling world.  He makes several … Continue reading →

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