This post reviews Mary K. Saunders, “Previously Homeschooled College Freshmen: Their First Year Experiences and Persistence Rates” in Journal of College Student Retention 11, no. 1 (2009-2010): 77-100.
Saunders here uses results from a survey of 261 college freshmen at Wheaton College to argue that first year students who previously homeschooled tend to report positive social [...]
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Saunders on Homeschoolers Going to College
Posted in Homeschooling and Higher Education, Quantitative data, Socialization, tagged College retention of homeschoolers, John Braxton, least squares regression, Mary K. Saunders, Socialization, Vincent Tinto, Wheaton College on September 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Kunzman on Christian Homeschooling, part 1
Posted in Curriculum, Family life, Parental motivation, Politics of homeschooling, Socialization, Sociology, research methodology, tagged Brian D. Ray, Brian Ray, Bridgeway Academy, California, Generation Joshua, HSLDA, Indiana, Lawrence Rudner, Oregon, Robert Kunzman, Tennessee, Vermont on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Robert Kunzman, Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009).
Kunzman [see his wonderful homeschooling research website here], Associate Professor of Education at Indiana University, Bloomington and author of many works on religion, ethics, and education, here gives us one of the most important [...]
Modern Girls, Pioneer Spirit, and Patriarchy
Posted in Family life, History of Homeschooling, Socialization, tagged Quiverfull, Patriarchy, Doug Phillips, Susan A. Miller, Growing Girls, Camp Fire Girls, Girl Scouts, Girl Pioneers, Charlotte Gulick, Jamestown, Vision Forum, summer camp on July 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This post reviews Susan A. Miller,Growing Girls: The Natural Origins of Girls’ Organizations in America (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007)
Miller, a lecturer in the history department at the University of Pennsylvania, here writes a detailed and fascinating account of organizations created in the early 20th century to help girls maintain continuity with the frontier past [...]
Joyce on Patriarchal Homeschooling, Part 3
Posted in Family life, History of Homeschooling, Parental motivation, Politics of homeschooling, Socialization, 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 on July 6, 2009 | 7 Comments »
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 like to offer some speculations about the movement’s future, drawing on a few personal experiences in [...]
Greenfield’s Theory of Social Change and Homeschooling
Posted in History of Homeschooling, Socialization, tagged creative class, Patricia M. Greenfield, David Riesman, Sir Henry Maine, Status and Contract Societies, Tradition direction, Inner Direction, Status Societies, Contract Societies, gemeinschaft, gesellschaft, Ferdinand Tonnies, Robert Redfield, Folk Societies, Urban Societies on April 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This post reviews Patricia M. Greenfield, “Linking Social Change and Developmental Change: Shifting Pathways of Human Development” in Developmental Psychology 45, no. 2 (March 2009): 401-418
Greenfield is a luminary in the field of psychocultural research, the comparative study of psychology across geographic and ethnic boundaries. She is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UCLA and Associate [...]
Plum-Ucci on Homeschooling Abbey
Posted in Family life, Parental motivation, Socialization, tagged Carol Plum-Ucci, John Taylor Gatto on March 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This post reviews Carol Plum-Ucci, Homeschooling Abbey: Your Basic Mom Tries Home Education & Tells All (BookSurge, 2008)
Plum-Ucci, best known for her young adult thrillers, here pens an intriguing memoir/meditation on her homeschooling experience with her daughter Abbey.
New Edition of HOMESCHOOLING (CURRENT CONTROVERSIES) PART 3
Posted in Socialization, public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged Alabama EqualAccess, Ed Rendell, families.com, Florida Gators, Nease High School, Preston Williams, Provo Daily Herald, Rutgers Law School, Sherry F. Colb, Tim Tebow, Tim Tebow Bill, Valorie Delp, Washington Post on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In my previous two posts (here and here) I reviewed the first three parts of Homeschooling (Current Controversies). In this post I’ll finish out part four and make some concluding comments about the anthology.
Part four addresses the question, “Should Homeschooled Children Have Access to Public School Resources?”
New Edition of HOMESCHOOLING (CURRENT CONTROVERSIES), part 2
Posted in Homeschool Law, Politics of homeschooling, Socialization, tagged Andrea Neal, Anne Basso, Carole Moore, Deborah Stevenson, Encounter Magazine, Home Education Magazine, Home Educator's Family Times, Home School Legal Defense Association, Kate McReynolds, Larry Kaseman, Louis A. Greenfield, Meg Jalsevac, Mothering Magazine, National Home Education Legal Defense (NHELD), Rachel Gathercole, Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, Saturday Evening Post, Scholastic Parents, Susan Kaseman on February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This post follows my previous post reviewing the new anthology Homeschooling (Current Controversies). Here I will review parts II and III of the book.
Part II addresses the question “is homeschooling a good option?” with three yea voices and one nay.
Malcolm Gladwell’s OUTLIERS and Homeschooling, part 2
Posted in Family life, Socialization, tagged 10 000 hour rule, Bill Gates, Bill Joy, K. Anders Ericsson, Malcolm Gladwell, National Geographic Bee, Outliers, practical intelligence, Scripps National Spelling Bee, The Beatles on January 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In my previous post I briefly described Gladwell’s thesis and drew some implications for homeschooling out of some of the examples from his new bestseller Outliers: The Story of Success. Here I’d like to do more of the same.
Gathercole on Homeschooling and Socialization
Posted in Family life, Socialization, tagged Helen Hegener, HSLDA, Larry Shyers, Michael Smith, Patrick Farenga, Rachel Gathercole, Socialization, Wendy Priesnitz on August 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This post reviews Rachel Gathercole, The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling (Denver: Mapletree Publishing Co., 2007).
Gathercole, a veteran homeschooling mother and widely published homeschooling advocate, here provides book-length coverage of the issue that has vexed homeschoolers more than any other–socialization.
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