Posted in Curriculum, Family life, Parental motivation, Politics of homeschooling, research methodology, Socialization, Sociology, tagged Brian D. Ray, Brian Ray, Bridgeway Academy, California, Generation Joshua, HSLDA, Indiana, Lawrence Rudner, Oregon, Robert Kunzman, Tennessee, Vermont on July 27, 2009| 3 Comments »
This post reviews Robert Kunzman, Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling
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 books on homeschooling ever written. (more…)
Posted in Homeschooling in Literature and Film, tagged CHN, Connecticut homeschooling, Homeschool Liberation League, Lucy Frank, TEACH, unschooling on July 20, 2009| 9 Comments »
This post reviews Lucy Frank, The Homeschool Liberation League
Frank, author of seven young adult titles, here offers a delightful contribution to the growing genre of children’s literature with homeschooled characters. (more…)
Posted in Family life, History of Homeschooling, Socialization, tagged Camp Fire Girls, Charlotte Gulick, Doug Phillips, Girl Pioneers, Girl Scouts, Growing Girls, Jamestown, Patriarchy, Quiverfull, summer camp, Susan A. Miller, Vision Forum on July 13, 2009| 1 Comment »
This post reviews Susan A. Miller,Growing Girls: The Natural Origins of Girls’ Organizations in America
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 even as they prepared them for the modern future–organizations like Camp Fire Girls, Girl Scouts, Girl Pioneers, and many more. (more…)
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| 9 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 the process. (more…)
A second, fully revised edition of my 2008 book Homeschool: An American History, was published in March of 2017. Get it here!
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