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Tag Archives: Jennifer Lois
GENDER, RELIGION, AND HOMESCHOOLING: Michael Apple Weighs In
Record: Michael W. Apple, “Gender, Religion, and the Work of Homeschooling” in Zehavit Gross, Lynn Davies, and Al-Khansaa Diab, eds., Gender, Religion and Education in a Chaotic Postmodern World (Springer, 2013). Abstract Here. Summary: Apple, an education professor at the … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Religion, Technology
Tagged American Grace, authoritarian populists, Christian Smith, David Campbell, Gene Edward Veith, George W. Bush, Jennifer Lois, Karl Rove, Kingdom of Children, Michael Apple, Mitchell Stevens, Patrick Henry College, project method, Robert Kunzman, Robert Putnam, social housekeeping, University of Wisconsin
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BENEFICIAL OUTCOMES BUT EDUCATORS DO NOT PROMOTE IT: A Rebuttal of Homeschooling Critiques
Record: Brian D. Ray, “Homeschooling Associated with Beneficial Learner and Societal Outcomes but Educators Do Not Promote It” in Peabody Journal of Education 88, no. 3 (2013): 324-341. Summary: Ray is without question the most influential researcher in homeschooling given … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Achievement, College/Postsecondary, Policy/Regulation, Religion, Socialization
Tagged Brian D. Ray, Cardus Education Survey, Home is Where the School Is, Home School Legal Defense Association, HSLDA, Jennifer Lois, Kathryn Joyce, National Home Education Research Institute, NHERI, Quiverfull, Rob Kunzman, Rousas Rushdoony, Write these Laws on your Children
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HOMESCHOOLING IN AMERICA: A Book-Length Survey of Homeschooling Research
Record: Joseph Murphy, Homeschooling in America: Capturing and Assessing the Movement (Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, 2012). Murphy, Associate Dean at Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University and author of many, many books and articles on a wide range of … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Achievement, Parental Motivation, Pedagogy, Socialization
Tagged Cardus Education Survey, Jennifer Lois, Joseph Murphy, National Center for Education Statistics, NCES, Peabody College of Education, Vanderbilt University
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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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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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LEGITIMATE PERIPHERAL PARTICIPATION: How Commitment to Homeschooling Grows
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
Posted in International, Parental Motivation, Socialization
Tagged 1996 Education Act, England, Great Britain, Jennifer Lois, John Holt, Lave, legitimate peripheral participation, Leslie Safran, Ruth Morton, Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation, Teaching and Teacher Education, United Kingdom, Wengar
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THE TEMPORAL EMOTION WORK OF MOTHERHOOD: How Homeschooling Mothers Deal with the Time Crunch
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
Posted in Gender, Parental Motivation
Tagged Gender and Society, Jennifer Lois, problematic emotions, savoring, sequencing, Sharon Hays, temporal emotion work
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EMOTIONALLY LAYERED ACCOUNTS: How Homeschooling Mothers Justify Their Actions
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
Posted in Parental Motivation
Tagged Deviant Behavior, Jennifer Lois, maternal deviance, Teaching Parents Association, TPA, Western Washington University
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