Download or read book Exploring Single Black Mothers Resistance Through Homeschooling written by Cheryl Fields-Smith and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Homeschooling Black Children in the U S written by Khadijah Ali-Coleman and published by IAP. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2021, the United States Census Bureau reported that in 2020, during the rise of the global health pandemic COVID-19, homeschooling among Black families increased five-fold. However, Black families had begun choosing to homeschool even before COVID-19 led to school closures and disrupted traditional school spaces. Homeschooling Black Children in the US: Theory, Practice and Popular Culture offers an insightful look at the growing practice of homeschooling by Black families through this timely collection of articles by education practitioners, researchers, homeschooling parents and homeschooled children. Homeschooling Black Children in the US: Theory, Practice and Popular Culture honestly presents how systemic racism and other factors influence the decision of Black families to homeschool. In addition, the book chapters illustrate in different ways how self-determination manifests within the homeschooling practice. Researchers Khadijah Ali-Coleman and Cheryl Fields-Smith have edited a compilation of work that explores the varied experiences of parents homeschooling Black children before, during and after COVID-19. From veteran homeschooling parents sharing their practice to researchers reporting their data collected pre-COVID, this anthology of work presents an overview that gives substantive insight into what the practice of homeschooling looks like for many Black families in the United States.

Download or read book Schoolchildren of the COVID 19 Pandemic written by Robert J. Ceglie and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all schoolchildren across the world. In this book, we explore the impact that this has had on children, parents, teachers, and administrators. Some lessons learned from these experienced are revealed as are ideas for how we can proceed for the betterment of our students.

Download or read book Identity as Resilience in Minoritized Communities written by Julie M. Koch and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines strengths-based approaches to understanding and celebrating diverse populations. It centers on understanding the ways in which minoritized group identities and membership in such communities can serve as sources of strength. The volume explores the varied dimensions of minoritized identities and challenges traditional concepts of what it means to be resilient. It presents research-based and innovative strategies to understand more thoroughly the role of resilience and strengths in diverse populations and families. The book addresses the need to consider affirmative, liberation, and strengths-based models of resilience. Key areas of coverage include: Families of transgender and gender diverse people. The role of chosen family in LGBTQ communities. Latinx LGBTQ families. The Indian Child Welfare Act. Celebration of Black girl voices. Homeschooling as a resilience factor for Black families. Black identity and resilience related to mental health. Black resilience in families. Identity as Resilience in Minoritized Communities is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and related professionals in developmental psychology, family studies, clinical child and school psychology, cultural psychology, social work, and public health as well as education policy and politics, behavioral health, psychiatry, and all related disciplines.

Download or read book Reimagining Diversity Equity and Justice in Early Childhood written by Haeny Yoon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated against a backdrop of multiple global pandemics—COVID-19, racial injustice and violence, inequitable resource distribution, political insurrections and unrest—this timely and critical volume argues for a divestment in white privilege and an investment in anti-racist pedagogies and practice across early childhood contexts of research, policy, and teaching and learning. Featuring established scholar-practitioners alongside emerging voices, chapters explore key issues around equitable and inclusive practices for young children, covering topics such as multilingualism and multicultural practices of immigrant communities, language varieties, and dialects across the Black diaspora, queer pedagogies, and play at the intersection of race, gender, disability, and language. Thoughtfully and compellingly written, each chapter offers an overview of the issue, the theoretical framework and critical context surrounding it and implications for practice.

Download or read book Global Perspectives on Home Education in the 21st Century written by English, Rebecca and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home education is the fastest growing educational movement in the world, yet the research remains limited on why and how it has become so popular. As more and more families seek to homeschool, it is imperative that further studies are undertaken to understand how students’ lives are impacted, as well as the challenges and opportunities that arise from this method of schooling. Global Perspectives on Home Education in the 21st Century is an edited collection that focuses on the major factors behind the global rise of the home education movement and explores many of the current issues faced in relation to homeschooling. The book examines key themes that include parents’ and children’s experiences of home education, how and why families choose to home educate, and what happens to home educated children once they are finished. Including topics such as unschooling, self-directed learning, willed learning, and holistic education, this book is primarily intended for home educators, school administrators, policymakers, researchers, academicians, and students.

Download or read book The Science of Homeschooling written by Kristy Crandall and published by Kristy Crandall. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been a lot of narratives spun about homeschooling over the years. Many of them center around the inability of parents to effectively teach their children without some kind of permanent emotional damage being done. However, studies on the subject do not support the stories that have been told. This book is perhaps the first one ever to examine the research on academic outcomes for students who are taught in public school versus at home. Written for new and prospective homeschoolers based on questions from real parents, this book provides resources to answer those hard questions, and empower parents to teach their own children in that is what they feel called to do. This book also simplifies homeschooling in a way that makes it seem manageable, and provides resources to help parents get started on their homeschool journey. This book is not meant to be a deep-dive into the nitty gritty of what homeschooling can be, but opens the door to the possibilities of what it has to offer, regardless of a family's unique situation. This book is meant to be a quick-start guide for parents, so they can have confidence in their decisions and a direction to go as they begin to figure out how to help their families thrive.

Download or read book Underachievement in Gifted Education written by Kristina Henry Collins and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an opportunity for researchers, professionals, and practitioners working directly with gifted individuals to engage with and examine the concept of underachievement of highly capable and talented individuals from different perspectives. Chapters written by experts in gifted education from diverse backgrounds explore underachievement in principle, illuminate underachievement as a response to written and unwritten policy and practice, showcase ranges of intellectual capability outside of traditional academic subjects, shift deficit views of not meeting rigid expectations to honoring interests and cultural values of the individual, and provide suggested and proven practices and services as solutions to bridge the gaps in achievement and performance for gifted and talented students. Expertly blending theory with practice, Underachievement in Gifted Education is a must read for all practitioners, educators of gifted individuals, and researchers seeking more opportunities to help students align how they choose to exhibit their talent and efforts with external and internal expectations, personal interests, and cultural values to reach their maximum potential.

Download or read book African Americans and Homeschooling written by Ama Mazama and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite greater access to formal education, both disadvantaged and middle-class black students continue to struggle academically, causing a growing number of black parents to turn to homeschooling. This book is an in-depth exploration of the motivations behind black parents’ decision to educate their children at home and the strategies they’ve developed to overcome potential obstacles. Citing current issues such as culture, religion and safety, the book challenges the commonly expressed view that black parents and their children have divested from formal education by embracing homeschooling as a constructive strategy to provide black children with a valuable educational experience.

Download or read book Decolonial Underground Pedagogy written by Noah Romero and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-08 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how minority-led skateboarding, punk rock, and unschooling communities engage in collective efforts to humanize education and construct kinder social frameworks. Noah Romero examines the roles of informal and community-embedded learning in actualizing transformative education and shows how decolonizing education can take place outside of school settings. Grounded in the author's own experience in minority-led Filipino subcultures, the book introduces a conceptual framework of subcultural learning and decolonizing education centred on the Philippines and its diaspora in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Romero argues that educational paradigms with peace, human rights, multiculturalism, social justice, and decolonization at the centre can extend beyond the classroom, curriculum, and teaching and into communities. By showing how minoritized people are redefining identity and knowledge through embodied community-responsive pedagogies, the book contributes to wider debates on Indigeneity, gender justice, human rights, peace studies, and decolonizing education.

Download or read book The Color of Homeschooling written by Mahala Dyer Stewart and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How race and racism shape middle-class families’ decisions to homeschool their children While families of color make up 41 percent of homeschoolers in America, little is known about the racial dimensions of this alternate form of education. In The Color of Homeschooling, Mahala Dyer Stewart explores why this percentage has grown exponentially in the past twenty years, and reveals how families’ schooling decisions are heavily shaped by race, class, and gender. Drawing from almost a hundred interviews with Black and white middle-class homeschooling and nonhomeschooling families, Stewart’s findings contradict many commonly held beliefs about the rationales for homeschooling. Rather than choosing to homeschool based on religious or political beliefs, many middle-class Black mothers explain their schooling choices as motivated by their concerns of racial discrimination in public schools and the school-to-prison pipeline. Indeed, these mothers often voiced concerns that their children would be mistreated by teachers, administrators, or students on account of their race, or that they would be excessively surveilled and policed. Conversely, middle-class white mothers had the privilege of not having to consider race in their decision-making process, opting for homeschooling because of concerns that traditional schools would not adequately cater to their child's behavioral or academic needs. While appearing nonracial, these same decisions often contributed to racial segregation. The Color of Homeschooling is a timely and much-needed study on how homeschooling serves as a canary in the coal mine, highlighting the perils of school choice policies for reproducing, rather than correcting, long-standing race, class, and gender inequalities in America.

Download or read book Homeschooling Black Children in the U S written by Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman and published by Contemporary Perspectives on Black Homeschooling. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2021, the United States Census Bureau reported that in 2020, during the rise of the global health pandemic COVID-19, homeschooling among Black families increased five-fold. However, Black families had begun choosing to homeschool even before COVID-19 led to school closures and disrupted traditional school spaces. Homeschooling Black Children in the US: Theory, Practice and Popular Culture offers an insightful look at the growing practice of homeschooling by Black families through this timely collection of articles by education practitioners, researchers, homeschooling parents and homeschooled children. Homeschooling Black Children in the US: Theory, Practice and Popular Culture honestly presents how systemic racism and other factors influence the decision of Black families to homeschool. In addition, the book chapters illustrate in different ways how self-determination manifests within the homeschooling practice. Researchers Khadijah Ali-Coleman and Cheryl Fields-Smith have edited a compilation of work that explores the varied experiences of parents homeschooling Black children before, during and after COVID-19. From veteran homeschooling parents sharing their practice to researchers reporting their data collected pre-COVID, this anthology of work presents an overview that gives substantive insight into what the practice of homeschooling looks like for many Black families in the United States.

Download or read book Homeschooling a Site of Freedom and Constraints for Black Families written by Rachel A. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Black parents continuously search for high-quality and affirming educational opportunities for their Black children, homeschooling has increasingly become a "choice" for Black families. While the research on Black homeschooling has noted racism in schools as a primary motivator for Black families turning to homeschool, less is known about other factors - beyond their motivations - that shape their decision to homeschool. Moreover, the homeschooling practices of Black caregivers are largely understudied. This growing research on Black homeschoolers also privileges the experiences of parents, with Black homeschooled youth overlooked as a focus of inquiry. Black families' experiences homeschooling can reveal what Black parents aim to disrupt and create through homeschooling and how Black youth make sense of their learning experiences outside of traditional schools.This critical qualitative dissertation study examines the experiences of Black and African American homeschooling families in Wisconsin and Illinois - two states with notable educational inequities for Black people and yet have received less attention in the literature. Drawing from BlackCrit, I explore why and how Black families homeschool through a variety of data collection methods: semi-structured interviews and focus groups with Black homeschooling parents, interviews with Black homeschool youth, and document analysis of homeschooling laws and artifacts from focal Black homeschool families. The data reveals that Black parents' decisions to homeschool were shaped by their motivators as well as factors that facilitate or enable them to "choose" homeschooling. Further, parents decided to homeschool for a variety of reasons based on constraints that pushed them to homeschool and possibilities that pulled them to homeschool. For most parents, antiblackness shaped their decision - albeit in different ways. All parents wanted to provide their children with what they believed was the best educational opportunities; however, they approached and practiced homeschooling in varied ways. They found homeschooling offered more freedom to learn, and at times, experienced constraints that shaped their practices. Young Black homeschoolers viewed homeschooling as a positive educational experience that affirmed them as learners and offered them more freedom in their learning, especially in comparison to traditional school. Some youth, however, pushed the bounds of their homeschooling as they shared their desires for fewer constraints and more freedom. While race, racism, and being Black were not explicitly central for all youth, a few youth shared that Black-centered learning was an important part of their homeschooling experience. The findings illuminate the freedom that is afforded with homeschooling, as well as the constraints that Black parents face ensuring their children have affirming educational experiences that make them well prepared for their lives in a neoliberal anti-Black society. The findings also highlight the heterogeneity among Black homeschooling parents in both their decisions to homeschool and their homeschool practice. Through its in-depth analysis of parents' motivations, practices, challenges, and aspirations-as well as the experiences and insights of young Black homeschoolers- this project has implications for efforts to rethink education in and outside of schools and can inform how educators across educational spaces support and practice liberatory learning with young Black people.

Download or read book Single Mom Homeschooling written by Kim Sorgius and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I first became a single mom, everyone else had already made up their mind about whether I'd be able to homeschool. The consensus was that it would be impossible, and as far as they were concerned, that was the end of that. I would have to get a job and put the kids in public school.The truth is, it almost was the end on several occasions. For many years, I battled with the same questions you might. How will I afford this and then sustain it? Can I really find time for it all? What will I say to all those in opposition? Is this really the best for my kids?Single Mom Homeschooling answers all of those questions and more. You'll find encouragement for your heart from someone who has been there. You'll find stories and stats from over 700 moms just like you. And of course, you'll find practical tips for all of the obstacles we face as single moms wishing to homeschool. I'll help you find the perfect curriculum for your family, a schedule that will make it all seem easy, and the courage to take on this noble task. Right now it's probably all so hard to fathom, but the promise remains: God is "...able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us" (Eph. 3:20).

Download or read book Freedom dreaming futures for Black youth Exploring meanings of liberation in education and psychology research written by Seanna Leath and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research elucidating the developmental processes in Black children and youths' schooling and educative experiences is increasing (e.g., Carter-Andrews et al., 2019; Daneshzadeh & Sirrakos, 2018; Jackson & Howard, 2014; Neal-Jackson, 2018). Yet, the notion of “freedom dreaming” in relation to Black children and youth has received less attention within the fields of education and psychology. We draw from U.S. historian, Professor Robin D.G. Kelley's, concept of freedom dreaming to illuminate not only what we are fighting against in the education of Black youth (e.g., racial bias and discrimination, unfair disciplinary practices and criminalization, and Black youths' overrepresentation in special education and underrepresentation in gifted and talented programs), but also what we are fighting for - liberatory educational praxis that build on Black youths' individual and cultural strengths. In the current call, freedom dreaming refers to: (1) actively uplifting the complex lives and stories of Black children and youth in educational settings; (2) elevating Black children and youths' intersectional experiences related to ability, gender identity, sexuality, age, and socio-economic class; and (3) highlighting the innovative work of scholars who understand and value community power in efforts to advance educational change. We draw on Dr. Bettina Love's (2019) call for educational freedom, wherein she states, “The practice of abolitionist teaching is rooted in the internal desire we all have for freedom, joy, restorative justice (restoring humanity, not just rules), and to matter to ourselves, our community, our family, and our country with the profound understanding that we must “demand the impossible” by refusing injustice and the disposability of dark children.” (p. 7)

Download or read book Kingdom of Children written by Mitchell Stevens and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of the homeschool movement and into the homes and meetings of home schoolers. What he finds are two very different kinds of home education--one rooted in the liberal alternative school movement of the 1960s and 1970s and one stemming from the Christian day school movement of the same era. Stevens explains how this dual history shapes the meaning and practice of home schooling today. In the process, he introduces us to an unlikely mix of parents (including fundamentalist Protestants, pagans, naturalists, and educational radicals) and notes the core values on which they agree: the sanctity of childhood and the primacy of family in the face of a highly competitive, bureaucratized society. Kingdom of Children aptly places home schoolers within longer traditions of American social activism. It reveals that home schooling is not a random collection of individuals but an elaborate social movement with its own celebrities, networks, and characteristic lifeways. Stevens shows how home schoolers have built their philosophical and religious convictions into the practical structure of the cause, and documents the political consequences of their success at doing so. Ultimately, the history of home schooling serves as a parable about the organizational strategies of the progressive left and the religious right since the 1960s.Kingdom of Children shows what happens when progressive ideals meet conventional politics, demonstrates the extraordinary political capacity of conservative Protestantism, and explains the subtle ways in which cultural sensibility shapes social movement outcomes more generally.

Download or read book Home is where the School is written by Jennifer Lois and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the experiences of homeschooling mothers Mothers who homeschool their children constantly face judgmental questions about their choices, and yet the homeschooling movement continues to grow with an estimated 1.5 million American children now schooled at home. These children are largely taught by stay-at-home mothers who find that they must tightly manage their daily schedules to avoid burnout and maximize their relationships with their children, and that they must sustain a desire to sacrifice their independent selves for many years in order to savor the experience of motherhood. Home Is Where the School Is is the first comprehensive look into the lives of homeschooling mothers. Drawing on rich data collected through eight years of fieldwork and dozens of in-depth interviews, Jennifer Lois examines the intense effects of the emotional and temporal demands that homeschooling places on mothers’ lives, raising profound questions about the expectations of modern motherhood and the limits of parenting.