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Nemer, Kariane Mari.

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Schooling alone: Homeschoolers, individualism, and the public schools.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Schooling alone: Homeschoolers, individualism, and the public schools./
Author:	Nemer, Kariane Mari.
Description:	249 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-08, Section: A, page: 2946.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-08A.
Subject:	Education, Sociology of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3142549
ISBN:	0496003097

Schooling alone: Homeschoolers, individualism, and the public schools.
Nemer, Kariane Mari.

Schooling alone: Homeschoolers, individualism, and the public schools. - 249 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-08, Section: A, page: 2946.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2004.

Social critics have focused attention on Americans' declining civic involvement and increased individualism. In education, we see this trend in policies such as voucher programs, charter schools, and, most apparently, homeschooling. Homeschooling pushes education to the highly individual level of the family, potentially excluding voices from the larger society. Some critics see homeschooling's increase as a harbinger of public education's demise and criticize it as the growth of a self-centered mentality that cares only for the private good with no regard for broader society.

ISBN: 0496003097Subjects--Topical Terms:

626654
Education, Sociology of.

Schooling alone: Homeschoolers, individualism, and the public schools.
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520 $a Social critics have focused attention on Americans' declining civic involvement and increased individualism. In education, we see this trend in policies such as voucher programs, charter schools, and, most apparently, homeschooling. Homeschooling pushes education to the highly individual level of the family, potentially excluding voices from the larger society. Some critics see homeschooling's increase as a harbinger of public education's demise and criticize it as the growth of a self-centered mentality that cares only for the private good with no regard for broader society.
520 $a In an in-depth, qualitative study of twenty-six homeschooling families in two states, I examined homeschoolers' views of public education. Through semi-structured, open-ended, multi-hour interviews, I found a subset of homeschoolers I call "autonomy-minded" homeschoolers. These parents uphold the classical liberal democratic ideal and want no government involvement in education; they oppose public schools both in principle and in practice. I also found a second subset of homeschoolers, who I call "civic-minded." These parents echo the positions of communitarian democratic scholars as they emphasize their commitment to the ideal of community-based social institutions and to decision-making that takes all community members' needs into account. Yet, in spite of civic-minded homeschoolers' ardently-voiced support, they give this support from outside the system as they do not send their children to public schools. These two groups of homeschoolers voice quite different perspectives about public schools and as a result advocate different types of educational policies. Yet the practical outcome for each group of homeschoolers is a withdrawal of their presence within public schools.
520 $a Public schools have played, and continue to play, a key role in American civic engagement. Civic-minded homeschoolers provide an example of how pluralism complicates democratic involvement in community institutions because while they maintain theoretical support for public schools, their strong educational ideals keep them from using those schools. These homeschoolers offer insight into why sociologists are finding increasing patterns of civic withdrawal---perhaps it's not that people no longer care, but given their context and choices, they may have trouble figuring out where they fit in.
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