Home Is Where the School Is : The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering /
Lois, Jennifer
Home Is Where the School Is : The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering / Jennifer Lois. - 1 online resource
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Explores the experiences of homeschooling mothersMothers 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780814752517 9780814789438
10.18574/nyu/9780814752517.001.0001 doi
Home schooling.
Mothers.
Women teachers.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Education.
LC40.5
371.042
Home Is Where the School Is : The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering / Jennifer Lois. - 1 online resource
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Explores the experiences of homeschooling mothersMothers 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780814752517 9780814789438
10.18574/nyu/9780814752517.001.0001 doi
Home schooling.
Mothers.
Women teachers.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Education.
LC40.5
371.042