TY - BOOK ID - 77892278 TI - Home is where the school is PY - 2013 SN - 0814789439 9780814789438 0814752519 9780814752517 9780814759431 0814759432 9780814752517 9780814752524 0814752527 PB - New York DB - UniCat KW - Women teachers. KW - Mothers. KW - Home schooling. KW - Women as teachers KW - Teachers KW - Women educators KW - Moms KW - Parents KW - Women KW - Housewives KW - Motherhood KW - Pregnant women KW - Domestic education KW - Education, Home KW - Home-based education KW - Home education KW - Home instruction KW - Home teaching by parents KW - Homeschooling KW - Schooling, Home KW - Education KW - Parent participation KW - Home schooling KW - Women teachers KW - Ecole à la maison KW - Mères KW - Enseignantes UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77892278 AB - Explores the experiences of homeschooling mothers 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. ER -