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- 2020 AESA CRITICS' CHOICE BOOK AWARD WINNER
- Employs Black Feminist Theory to relate the personal narratives of four specific single Black mothers and the factors influencing their continued decisions to homeschool their children
- Challenges demographic assumptions of who homeschools and why
- Ties research participants' personal narratives into the historical and ongoing challenges facing Black education in the US, including school choice policy and racialized school practices
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Alternative Education (PSAE)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book expands the concept of homeplace with contemporary Black homeschooling positioned as a form of resistance among single Black mothers. Chapters explore each mother’s experience and unique context from their own perspectives in deciding to homeschool and developing their practice. It corroborates many of the issues that plague the education of Black children in America, including discipline disproportionality, frequent referrals to special education services, teachers’ low expectations, and the marginalization of Black parents as partners in traditional schools. This book demonstrates how single mothers experience the inequity in school choice policies and also provides an understanding of how single Black mothers experience home-school partnerships within traditional schools. Most importantly, this volume challenges stereotypical characterizations of who homeschools and why.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Educational Theory and Practice, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Cheryl Fields-Smith
About the author
Cheryl Fields-Smith is Associate Professor in Elementary Education at the University of Georgia, USA. Her research interests include family engagement, home-school-community partnerships, and homeschooling among Black families.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exploring Single Black Mothers' Resistance Through Homeschooling
Authors: Cheryl Fields-Smith
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Alternative Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42564-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42563-0Published: 06 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42566-1Published: 06 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42564-7Published: 05 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-5036
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5044
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 148
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Alternative Education, Social Policy, Educational Policy and Politics, Education, general