African American Homeschoolers: The Force of Faith and the Reality of Race in the Homeschooling Experience

Motherhood, homeschooling, and mental health

“…In fact, there are several other reasons that families choose to homeschool: distrust of public schools (Stevens, ), disappointment in school safety (Lois, ), “racial protectionism” (Mazama & Lundy, ), and protection from peer influence (Stevens, ; Vigilant, Trefethren, & Anderson, ). Further, many parents cite more than one reason for their choice to homeschool (Lois, ; Mazama & Lundy, , ; Murphy, ).…”

“…Fields‐Smith and Williams () have named these reasons “ethnological” and explain that these reasons for homeschooling stem from parents' worries that racial stereotypes affect their children's education. Fields‐Smith and Kisura () and Mazama and Lundy (, ) noted that homeschooling Black families, whose numbers seem to be increasing, tend to include religion, school safety, low expectations for Black children in schools, lack of unbiased education, and racism in their reasons for homeschooling. Some of the Black homeschooling mothers in Fields‐Smith and Kisura's () study expressed feeling as though they needed to choose homeschooling to ensure that their children were pushed to reach their full potential citing a “culture of low expectations” (p. 272) in school.…”

“…Lois (2013) found that there are two different types of homeschooling families: "first-choice" and "second-choice" (p. 47). First-choice homeschoolers are those who choose to homeschool, usually for reasons such as to provide religious instruction (Mazama & Lundy, 2014;Kunzman, 2009;Stevens, 2001;Vigilant et al, 2013), to protect their children from social influences (Stevens, 2001;Mazama & Lundry, 2014;Vigilant et al, 2013), to protect their children from racism in the schools (Fields-Smith & Kisura, 2013;Fields-Smith & Williams, 2009;Mazama & Lundy, 2012, 2014, or out of a distrust in the public schools to give their child a proper education (Stevens, 2001;Vigilant et al, 2013). Contrarily, second-choice homeschoolers are those who homeschool not because they desire to but because they are circumstantially forced to because their child has special needs or they have run out of school options for other reasons such as disciplinary, behavioral, or social problems (Lois, 2013;Murphy, 2012).…”

İngiltere’de Müslüman Ailelerin Ev Okulu Tecrübeleri ve Türkiye’de Ev Okulunun İmkânı

“…Genel olarak ev okulunu tercih edenlerde olduğu gibi (Basham vd., 2007, s. 8;Mazama ve Lundy, 2014), İngiltere'deki Müslüman ailelerin de ev okulunu tercih etmelerindeki en önemli sebebin okul sisteminden duydukları memnu-niyetsizlik olduğu görülmektedir. Örneğin, İngiltere'de ev okulunu tercih eden on Müslüman aileyi inceleyen Ahmed (2012, s. 726) ailelerin ev okulunu tercih etmedeki temel sebeplerin "okuldaki eğitimden memnun olmamaları" ve "İngiliz eğitim sisteminin kendilerini kaybettiğine inanmaları" olduğunu belirtmiştir.…”

Understanding African Americans Homeschooling Movement in the United States through Social Justice and Equity, Postcolonialism and Critical Theory

“…The popularity of homeschooling has grown significantly in recent years in the United States (Puga, 2019;Mazama & Lundy, 2014Ray, 2015). Indeed, homeschooling increased by 74 per cent between 1999 and 2007 (Mazama & Lundy, 2015), and there are an estimated two million children in the United States who are taught at home (Ray, 2015).…”