LEADER 04621nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910172222803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-08751-7 010 $a9786612087516 010 $a1-4008-2480-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400824809 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756233 035 $a(EBL)445421 035 $a(OCoLC)355507899 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000187639 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11184363 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000187639 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10135179 035 $a(PQKB)11690137 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36121 035 $a(DE-B1597)446255 035 $a(OCoLC)979741519 035 $a(OCoLC)984643667 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400824809 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445421 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284056 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208751 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445421 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756233 100 $a20030110e20032001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aKingdom of children $eculture and controversy in the homeschooling movement /$fMitchell L. Stevens 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. ;$aWoodstock $cPrinceton University Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (243 p.) 225 1 $aPrinceton studies in cultural sociology 300 $aOriginally published: 2001. 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-691-05818-0 311 $a0-691-11468-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-224) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tCHAPTER ONE. Inside Home Education --$tCHAPTER TWO. From Parents to Teachers --$tCHAPTER THREE. Natural Mothers, Godly Women --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Authority and Diversity --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Politics --$tCHAPTER SIX. Nurturing the Expanded Self --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aMore 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 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. 410 0$aPrinceton studies in cultural sociology. 606 $aHome schooling$zUnited States 606 $aEducational sociology$zUnited States 615 0$aHome schooling 615 0$aEducational sociology 676 $a371.04/2/0973 700 $aStevens$b Mitchell L$0863614 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910172222803321 996 $aKingdom of children$91927567 997 $aUNINA