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Tag Archives: Quiverfull
HARO 2014 INSTALLMENT TWO: Demographics
Record: Coalition for Responsible Home Education, “A Complex Picture: Results of the 2014 Survey of Adult Alumni of the Modern Christian Homeschooling Movement, Installment Two” Homeschool Alumni Reaching Out (1 February 2015). [Available Here] Summary: This post reviews the second installment of HARO’s survey … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Achievement, College/Postsecondary, Gender
Tagged HARO, Home School Legal Defense Association, Homeschool Alumni Reaching Out, Homeschoolers Anonymous, HSLDA, Kathryn Joyce, Melissa Chesanko, Melissa Sherfinski, Quiverfull, Richard G. Medlin, survivor blogs
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DISTURBING THE DATA: Gender and Family Size Matters with Evangelical Homeschooling
Record: Melissa Sherfinski and Melissa Chesanko, “Disturbing the Data: Looking into Gender and Family Size Matters with US Evangelical Homeschoolers” in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 7, no. 14 (2014): 1-18. [Abstract Here] Summary: Sherfinski is an assistant professor in … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Religion
Tagged Duggar, Evangelical, Kathryn Joyce, large families, Melissa Chesanko, Melissa Sherfinski, Quiverfull, snowball sampling, West Virginia University
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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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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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