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Home Is Where the School Is : The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2013
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Homeschooling mothers
- Coming to a decision : first- and second-choice homeschoolers
- Defending good-mother identities : the homeschooling stigma
- Adding the teacher role : domestic labor and burnout
- Losing me-time : the temporal emotion work of motherhood
- Looking back : the homeschooling journey
- Taking stock of the present : perceptions of success
- Looking forward : empty desks, empty nests
- Savoring motherhood.