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Kingdom of children : culture and controversy in the homeschooling movement / Mitchell L. Stevens.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton studies in cultural sociologyPublication details: Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 228 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400824809
  • 140082480X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Kingdom of children.DDC classification:
  • 371.04/20973 22
LOC classification:
  • LC40 .S74 2001eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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