Exploring Single Black Mothers' Resistance Through Homeschooling

Cheryl Fields-Smith is Associate Professor in Elementary Education at the University of Georgia, USA. Her research interests include family engagement, home-school-community partnerships, and homeschooling among Black families.

• 1. Voices Speaking Truths from Our Past and Our Present.- 2. Conceptualizing Contemporary Black Homeschooling and Single Black Mothers' Resistance.- 3. Margaret – Homeschooling as a Mother's Right.- 4. Dahlia – Homeschooling as a Last Resort.- 5. Yvette – Homeschooling as Split-schooling: Homeschooling One of Two.- 6. Chloe – Homeschooling as a Way of Life.- 7. The Significance of Single Black Mothers Homeschooling.-

“Home-schooling single mothers may find in this book resources to avoid the shame often associated with their situation. Researchers will find four detailed life stories that intricately intertwine the motivations and sociological factors explaining the decision to homeschool. Policy makers could read how some mothers feel compelled to homeschool by a public system that fails to provide acceptable solutions, but also that homeschooling can contrastively be experienced by seemingly disadvantaged mothers as a positive choice.” (Philippe Bongrand, Educational Review, Vol. 74 (3), 2022)