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UNISA996211818503316 |
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Autore |
Stevens Mitchell L |
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Titolo |
Kingdom of children [[electronic resource] ] : culture and controversy in the homeschooling movement / / Mitchell L. Stevens |
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Princeton, N.J. ; ; Woodstock, : Princeton University Press, 2003 |
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1-282-08751-7 |
9786612087516 |
1-4008-2480-X |
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[Core Textbook] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (243 p.) |
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Princeton studies in cultural sociology |
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Home schooling - United States |
Educational sociology - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: 2001. |
Includes index. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-224) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Inside Home Education -- CHAPTER TWO. From Parents to Teachers -- CHAPTER THREE. Natural Mothers, Godly Women -- CHAPTER FOUR. Authority and Diversity -- CHAPTER FIVE. Politics -- CHAPTER SIX. Nurturing the Expanded Self -- Notes -- Index |
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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 1960's and 1970's and one stemming from the Christian day school movement of the same era. Stevens explains how this dual history |
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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 1960's.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. |
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UNINA9910821360403321 |
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Autore |
Dernbach John C. |
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Titolo |
Energy industries and sustainability / / general editor, Ray C. Anderson ; editors, Klaus Bosselmann [and seventeen others] |
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Great Barrington, MA : , : Berkshire, , 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 171 pages) : color illustrations |
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Energy industries - Environmental aspects |
Sustainability |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction to renewable energy -- Algae -- Aluminum -- Cap-and-trade legislation -- Carbon footprint -- Coal -- Energy and theology -- Energy conservation incentives -- Energy efficiency measurement -- Energy industries : bioenergy -- Energy industries : geothermal -- Energy industries : hydroelectric -- Energy industries : hydrogen and fuel cells -- Energy industries : natural gas -- Energy industries : nuclear -- Energy industries : solar -- Energy industries : wave and tidal -- Energy industries : wind -- Energy labeling -- Energy subsidies -- Investment, CleanTech -- Investment law, energy -- Iron ore -- Lighting, indoor -- Lithium -- Materials substitution -- Mining -- Petroleum -- Polluter pays principle -- Shale gas extraction -- Sugarcane -- Thorium -- Uranium -- Utilities regulation. |
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This book covers the exploitation of energy resources--such as coal, petroleum, and wood--and the innovations that can provide the energy we need for a cleaner, safer, and more sustainable future. |
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