The Schoolhome: Rethinking Schools for Changing Families - Hardcover

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

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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