You Can’t Rely on Somebody Else to Teach Them Something They Don’t Believe”

Impressions of Legitimation Crisis and Socialization Control in the Narratives of Christian Homeschooling Fathers

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11231007
AutoresLee Garth Vigilant (Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN, USA, autor de correspondencia), Lauren Wold Trefethren (Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN, USA), Tyler C Anderson (Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN, USA), Tyler Anderson (Minnesota State University Moorhead)
Año2013
Volumen37
Número3
Páginas201-224
Fecha de publicación2013-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHumanity & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0160-5976 • E-ISSN: 2372-9708
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0160597613495841
OpenAlexW2334248957
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas33

Homeschooling is a permanently established segment of the American education landscape encompassing nearly 2 million children. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 21 Christian homeschooling fathers in the upper Midwest, this study examines fathers’ perceptions of their place in the homeschooling movement and their rationalizations for homeschooling. The study’s findings suggest that homeschooling fathers have a keen sense of their duty of nurturing the home as a “protective cocoon” where concerted moral cultivation can take place. This forms the basis of a system of “total socialization” aimed at negating the influence of competing socialization agents. But underlying perceptions of the home as a protective cocoon is a legitimation crisis stemming from a loss of faith in American public education and its capacity to act as an agent of moral socialization for today’s youth

Criminology · Duty · Faith · Home education · Legitimation · Pedagogy · Perception · Political science · Socialization · Sociology · Theology · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology