I'm on the Homeschool Talks Podcast!
HSLDA president Jim Mason interviews yours truly on the history of homeschooling and on actually homeschooling.
Dear Friends,
I had my first podcast appearance! It was really, really fun.
The topic was both my research on the homeschooling movement today and in American history AND my own perspective as a homeschooling parent. It was interesting and challenging to speak both as a researcher and as a homeschooling mom at the same time — when I have my historian hat on, I try to take a very scholarly perspective, but it is true to reality that the two types of experiences (researching homeschooling and actually homeschooling) do affect one another other! So it was very enjoyable.
Watch or listen here:
“Out of the Gray: A History Lesson on Homeschooling”
What do you think? Pretty nifty, right? I’m looking forward to speaking with HSLDA again when my book on the history of homeschooling comes out!
Take care,
This podcast was fascinating and deep with so much information and encouragement that parents need to hear as they consider this alternative in education. Homeschooling for our family saved our daughter from becoming "jaded," as she said after talking to her friends. There were so many issues that homeschool helped alleviate. Also, at the time, we connected with a wonderful program that fostered "non-schooling" or "unschooling" that worked very well for us. Thank you, Dixie, for this podcast.
So cool, Dixie! I will look forward to listening. It seems like a pretty special thing to be able to approach it from both angles - more challenging yes, but also really nuanced. Have you encountered a book called “Christian Reconstruction” by McVicar in your research? I’m so curious about some of the roots of things I’ve encountered as a 2nd gen homeschooler, the weirdness that has gotten conflated with much of homeschooling, political movements etc… I couldn’t handle the book right now - just don’t have time & brain space. But I want to go back to it and think you’d probably find it fascinating…