Exploring Single Black Mothers' Resistance Through Homeschooling - Cheryl Fields-Smith

Exploring Single Black Mothers' Resistance Through Homeschooling

Buch | Softcover
XVII, 148 Seiten
2021 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-42566-1 (ISBN)
96,29 inkl. MwSt

This book expands the concept of homeplace with contemporary Black homeschooling positioned as a form of resistance among single Black mothers. Chapters explore each mother's experience and unique context from their own perspectives in deciding to homeschool and developing their practice. It corroborates many of the issues that plague the education of Black children in America, including discipline disproportionality, frequent referrals to special education services, teachers' low expectations, and the marginalization of Black parents as partners in traditional schools. This book demonstrates how single mothers experience the inequity in school choice policies and also provides an understanding of how single Black mothers experience home-school partnerships within traditional schools. Most importantly, this volume challenges stereotypical characterizations of who homeschools and why.

lt;p>Cheryl Fields-Smith is Associate Professor in Elementary Education at the University of Georgia, USA. Her research interests include family engagement, home-school-community partnerships, and homeschooling among Black families.

1. Voices Speaking Truths from Our Past and Our Present.- 2. Conceptualizing Contemporary Black Homeschooling and Single Black Mothers' Resistance.- 3. Margaret - Homeschooling as a Mother's Right.- 4. Dahlia - Homeschooling as a Last Resort.- 5. Yvette - Homeschooling as Split-schooling: Homeschooling One of Two.- 6. Chloe - Homeschooling as a Way of Life.- 7. The Significance of Single Black Mothers Homeschooling.- 

"Home-schooling single mothers may find in this book resources to avoid the shame often associated with their situation. Researchers will find four detailed life stories that intricately intertwine the motivations and sociological factors explaining the decision to homeschool. Policy makers could read how some mothers feel compelled to homeschool by a public system that fails to provide acceptable solutions, but also that homeschooling can contrastively be experienced by seemingly disadvantaged mothers as a positive choice." (Philippe Bongrand, Educational Review, Vol. 74 (3), 2022)

“Home-schooling single mothers may find in this book resources to avoid the shame often associated with their situation. Researchers will find four detailed life stories that intricately intertwine the motivations and sociological factors explaining the decision to homeschool. Policy makers could read how some mothers feel compelled to homeschool by a public system that fails to provide acceptable solutions, but also that homeschooling can contrastively be experienced by seemingly disadvantaged mothers as a positive choice.” (Philippe Bongrand, Educational Review, Vol. 74 (3), 2022)

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in Alternative Education
Zusatzinfo XVII, 148 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 229 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
Schlagworte Black homeschooling • Minority Education • parental involvement • school choice • Single Mothers
ISBN-10 3-030-42566-5 / 3030425665
ISBN-13 978-3-030-42566-1 / 9783030425661
Zustand Neuware
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