 Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movementreviewed by Kurt J. Bauman - 2004  Title: Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling MovementAuthor(s): Mitchell L. Stevens Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton ISBN: 0691058180, Pages: 228, Year: 2001 Search for book at Amazon.com Homeschooling is one of the most unique and surprising social movements of the last few decades. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, some 850,000 students in the United States were being homeschooled in 1999 (Bielick, Chandler and Broughman, 2001), and the number gives every appearance of growing. Yet we don’t really have answers to some of basic questions about this phenomenon: “What is it all about? Who is doing it? Why are they doing it? Is homeschooling going to grow or is it just a fad?” and finally, “How will it affect schools?” Mitchell Stevens’ short, readable and fascinating book The Kingdom of Children explores homeschooling as a social movement and examines how the leadership and organization of the movement has transformed it from its origins to its current form. It is a book about how the organization of social movements makes a difference in their failure or success. It is a book about the relative success of the liberal “alternative” political movements and the conservative Christian... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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