Mitchell L. Stevens (MHT-054)

Thursday, September 02, 2010



"Home schooling really isn't as strange as it appears. In fact, at its core it's philosophically quite similar to other fashionable ways of talking about children." —Mitchell Stevens Professor Mitchell Stevens discusses his study of home schooling and what he discovered about those who teach their children at home. Stevens's book, Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement, is one of the first sociological studies of home schooling, which is a social phenomenon with long-term cultural consequences. Stevens explains that there are two distinct groups of people who typically choose to educate their children at home, but that these groups are often motivated by similar convictions. Both counter-cultural families and conservative Christians are concerned with tailoring pedagogy to the needs of individual children. Stevens also mentions the discussions conservative Christians who home school are having about child development, parenting, and balancing work and home.	Kingdom of Children (Princeton University Press, 2001)

	Home-schooling Individualism Counterculture Education Character Formation

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