Kingdom of children: culture and controversy in the homeschooling movement
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1. Verfasser: Stevens, Mitchell L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press 2001
Schriftenreihe:Princeton studies in cultural sociology
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Beschreibung:Includes index
Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Inside Home Education; CHAPTER TWO: From Parents to Teachers; CHAPTER THREE: Natural Mothers, Godly Women; CHAPTER FOUR: Authority and Diversity; CHAPTER FIVE: Politics; CHAPTER SIX: Nurturing the Expanded Self; Notes; Index
More than one million American children are schooled by their parents. As their ranks grow, home schoolers are making headlines by winning national spelling bees and excelling at elite universities. The few studies conducted suggest that homeschooled children are academically successful and remarkably well socialized. Yet we still know little about this alternative to one of society's most fundamental institutions. Beyond a vague notion of children reading around the kitchen table, we don't know what home schooling looks like from the inside. Sociologist Mitchell Stevens goes behind the scenes
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 228 pages)
ISBN:140082480X
9781400824809

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