This post briefly reviews Veronica Chater, Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family (New York: Norton, 2009).
Chater here pens an amazing memoir of her childhood years as one of (eventually) 11 children in a super conservative Catholic family. There’s no actual homeschooling in the book (Veronica’s mother threatens her kids with homeschooling [...]
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Veronica Chater’s WAITING FOR THE APOCALYPSE
Posted in Family life, tagged Catholic, Fatima, Great Chastisement, Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull, Robert Kunzman, Vatican 2, Vatican II, Veronica Chater, Waiting for the Apocalypse on August 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Joyce on Patriarchal Homeschooling, Part 2
Posted in Family life, 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 on June 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This post continues my review of Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement.
In my last post I summarized Joyce’s book. Here I will offer three criticisms and then try to generalize a bit from her data. In my next post I’ll offer some predictions for the future of the Patriarchy movement. First for the critique:
Joyce on Patriarchal Homeschooling, Part 1
Posted in Family life, History of Homeschooling, Motherhood, 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 on June 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This post reviews 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 where father is patriarchal lord, mother is submissive breeder of as many children as [...]
Tough on Replicating Middle Class Homes for the Poor
Posted in Family life, Sociology, public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged Annette Lareau, Baby College, Charles Murray, Christopher Jencks, Coleman Report, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Equality of Educational Opportunity, Geoffrey Canada, Harlem, Harlem Children's Zone, Harlem Gems, James S. Coleman, Losing Ground, Martha Farah, Matthew Effect, Moynihan Report, Paul Tough, Promise Academy, Richard Rothstein, The Bell Curve, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, Whatever it Takes, William Julius Wilson on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Paul Tough, Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008).
Tough, an editor at the New York Times Magazine and widely published journalist, here pens a fascinating book chronicling the reform efforts of Geoffrey Canada, an African American visionary who has been working for many years [...]
A new edition of HOMESCHOOLING (CURRENT CONTROVERSIES), part 1
Posted in Family life, Parental motivation, tagged African American homeschooling, BellaOnline.com, Catholic homeschooling, Christa Rosales, Christine Field, Chronicle of Higher Education, classical education, conservative Protestant homeschooling, Creationism, Evolution, First Things, homeschooling children with special needs, Jennifer James, Laredo Morning Times, Mark Field, Meg Grooms, Mothering Magazine, Nicole Vallone, religious motivation for homeschooling, Sally Thomas, Special Education, W.A. Pannapacker, William A. Pannapacker on February 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Back in June I reviewed the previous incarnation of this book in four blog posts (number 1, number 2, number 3, and number 4). There’s a lot of interesting stuff in those posts, so if you haven’t read them I recommend doing so.
Myra Immel is the editor this time around of Homeschooling (Current Controversies). The 2009 edition [...]
Uecker on Homeschooling and Religious Commitment
Posted in Family life, Quantitative data, Sociology, tagged Christian Smith, Jeremy E. Uecker, Catholic schooling, private schooling, Protestant schooling, National Survey of Youth and Religion, NSYR, Soul Searching, Peter Berger, sacred canopy, sacred umbrella, Melinda Lundquist Denton on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Jeremy E. Uecker, “Alternative Schooling Strategies and the Religious Lives of American Adolescents” in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 47, no. 4 (December 2008): 563-584 [Abstract available here].
Uecker, a Ph.D. candidate at the U of Texas at Austin and author of many interesting articles on young adult religion and sexuality, [...]
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