Home/schooling : : creating schools that work for kids, parents and teachers / / Kyle Greenwalt.

• VerfasserIn: Greenwalt, Kyle,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] ;, Taipei, [Taiwan] : : Sense Publishers,, 2016.; ℗2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (118 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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, American...

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.