"Homeschooling Is Our Protest:" Educational Liberation for African American Homeschooling Families in Philadelphia, PA

Autor/in	Puga, Lisa
Titel	"Homeschooling Is Our Protest:" Educational Liberation for African American Homeschooling Families in Philadelphia, PA
Quelle	In: Peabody Journal of Education, 94 (2019) 3, S.281-296 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-956X
DOI	10.1080/0161956X.2019.1617579
Schlagwörter	Home Schooling; African Americans; Racial Bias; Educational Change; Politics of Education; Activism; School Choice; African American Family; African American Attitudes; Parent Attitudes; African American Students; Student Attitudes; Decision Making; Racial Identification; African American Education; Resistance to Change; Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Homeschooling; Home instruction; ; Hausunterricht; Heimschule; Afroamerikaner; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Bildungsreform; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Elternverhalten; African Americans; Student; Students; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Schülerverhalten; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung
Abstract	As increasing numbers of researchers, parents, and youth are rethinking the traditional school system as the default educational option in the United States, homeschooling is not only growing in size but also in philosophical scope and demographic diversity. African Americans particularly have been one of the steadiest-growing homeschooling demographics. Among the few ethnographic accounts of black homeschooling families, youth perceptions tend to be overlooked. This article builds upon scholarship exploring racial injustices in education with new qualitative research: observations and interviews with 15 African American homeschooling families living in Philadelphia. This research reveals a variety of motivations undergirding African American families' homeschooling decisions and perspectives, including commentary from youth homeschoolers. Previous research has critiqued homeschooling as a neoliberal exercise in privatization that entrenches the social reproduction of inequality, or operates as a destabilizing threat to public interest. Yet, findings from this study complicate these assessments by examining the ways African American homeschoolers enmesh themselves within educational reform conversations, some viewing homeschooling as a form of political protest. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01