Home Is Where the School Is
：The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering
Publication subTitle ：The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering
Author： Lois Jennifer
Publisher： NYU Press
Publication year： 2012
E-ISBN: 9780814789438
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780814752524
Subject： G78 family education
Keyword： 社会生活与社会问题,世界教育事业,学校管理,预防医学、卫生学
Language： ENG
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Description
Mothers 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.
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