Home/Schooling : creating schools that work for kids, parents and teachers /

During the nineteenth century, social reformers took hold of an already existing institution - the school - and sought to make it compulsory. In the process, they supplanted parents and domestic life - the home - as the primary educational force for children. As education was taken out of the home,...

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Main Author: Greenwalt, Kyle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, 2016.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9789463004749
9463004742
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Home/Schooling Revisited
  • The Illusion of Compulsory Schooling
  • Homeschooling and Home/Schooling
  • Audience, Purpose and Overview of the Book
  • What Schooling Does to Kids
  • The Outcomes of Schooling: Liberation versus Oppression
  • Nationalism, Schooling, and Affectionate Authority
  • Nationalist Reform through Affectionate Authority
  • Living the Contradiction: Stories of Teacher Authority and Teacher Affection
  • What Schooling Does to Kids: The Universality of Guilt, Shame and Abuse
  • What Schooling Does to Teachers
  • The Worst of All Slaveries
  • Women and Teaching: Ambitions for a Public Life
  • Women and Teaching: A Dangerous Step Forward
  • What Teaching Does to Teachers
  • The Biggest Challenge Facing Teachers: Their Own Pasts
  • What Schooling Does to Teachers
  • What Schooling Does to Parents
  • A Warning: Teachers Living Lives of Contradiction
  • A Man's Home Is His Castle
  • Families and the Common School Movement
  • Teachers and Parents Are Natural Enemies
  • A Pathologist Comes to Visit
  • When Are They Supposed to Dance?
  • Finding the Balance between Home and School
  • Home/Schooling Our Children
  • Rethinking Affectionate Authority: Lessons from Marmee
  • Recommendations for Parents and Teachers
  • Final Thoughts
  • References.