Creating educational justice : learning from Black home educators / Cheryl Fields-Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fields-Smith, Cheryl, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children, Black--Education--United States.

Children, Black.

Home schooling--United States.

Home schooling.

Educational equalization--United States.

Educational equalization.

Physical Description:

181 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2025]

Summary:

"In Creating Educational Justice, Cheryl Fields-Smith upholds the decisions of Black parents to homeschool their children as acts of empowerment, resistance, and educational justice. The work spotlights the various motivations of Black families to home educate, bringing attention to key issues facing K-12 public schooling in the United States. Fields-Smith shares the voices and perspectives of sixty Black home educators from a range of demographic backgrounds. Many of these families moved to homeschooling after students began their formal education in public schools, citing both problems endemic to US public schools (curriculum limitations, teacher shortages, and inadequate resources) and those faced particularly by Black students (marginalization of Black parents' engagement, deficit narratives surrounding Black student ability, discriminatory disciplinary practices, and overrepresentation in special education) as reasons for their switch. Their stories demonstrate the many ways in which Black home education curates learning opportunities that promote positive identity development and racial healing, as well as academic success, in ways that traditional schools often cannot"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Diversity of Black Home Educators

Black Home Education as a Pathway Toward Healing

Black Home Educator Folk Pedagogy as Putting Children First

Former Black Teachers Choosing Home Education

Parents' Freedom to Choose How to Be Engaged

Ubuntu and the Power of Community

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781682539682

1682539687

OCLC:

1483706728