The Schoolhome: Rethinking Schools for Changing Families / Edition 1

by Jane Roland Martin

Overview

Drawing selectively from reform movements of the past and relating them to the unique needs of today’s parents and children, Jane Martin presents a philosophy of education that is responsive to America’s changed and changing realities. As more and more parents enter the workforce, the historic role of the domestic sphere in the education and development of children is drastically reduced. Consequently, Martin advocates removing the barriers between the school and the home.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674792661
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	08/11/1995
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jane Roland Martin is Professor of Philosophy, Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Editorial Reviews

[Martin] reconnects us with the long view of schooling and opens possibilities that delight.

Young Children - Sydney Gurewitz Clemens

An exciting breath of fresh air to the seemingly endless number of school reform books that cross my desk… In all of the discussions on school reform, which one of them places the child’s needs center stage and argues we are morally bound to tend to them, and we must do the best we can to help these children feel loved? The Schoolhome does, and does it with beauty and grace; I recommend it highly!

Educational Studies - Barbara Thayer-Bacon

An exciting breath of fresh air to the seemingly endless number of school reform books that cross my desk...In all of the discussions on school reform, which one of them places the child's needs center stage and argues we are morally bound to tend to them, and we must do the best we can to help these children feel loved? The Schoolhome does, and does it with beauty and grace; I recommend it highly!
— Barbara Thayer-Bacon

Educational Studies

[Martin] reconnects us with the long view of schooling and opens possibilities that delight.
— Sydney Gurewitz Clemens

Young Children

Martin (philosophy, Univ. of Massachusetts-Boston) proposes the laudable redirection of the school as a stronger partner of the home, hence ``schoolhome.'' She proposes that schools become a moral equivalent of the home, responsive to the needs and conditions of children and their parent(s). She recommends that schools reflect care, concern, and connection to educate all children in our culture's whole heritage. Children need to learn the traditional values, skills, attitudes, and knowledge values of the home, something our disjointed, frazzled, and dysfunctional families don't always accomplish. This title is different in intent than her earlier works, including Reclaiming a Conversation: The Ideal of the Educated Woman ( LJ 9/15/85). Wanting in operational substance, it is a rosy philosophical treatise divorced from educational reality. This is not recommended.-- Scott Johnson, Meridian Communi ty Coll. Lib., Miss.

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