Name:   A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls
Author(s)
 
 
Sheffer, S.
Topics
 
 
Homeschooling, Adolescent Dev., Gender Specific
Source
 
 
Heinemann ISBN: 0867094052
Copyright
 
 
1997
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This book by S. Scheffer looks at the lack of a "crisis of confidence" in homeschooled adolescent girls, compared with other girls in more traditional school settings. Several of the girls interviewed for this study are intellectually or artistically gifted.
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6/7/2005
 
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This book is one of the few studies available about the socialization of homeschooled students. It is unusual in that it focuses only on girls, and is a qualitative research study. Families of profoundly gifted children will find this book particularly interesting, as several of the girls who are quoted extensively are highly to profoundly gifted (although not formally identified in the text as such). Sheffer's findings that homeschooled adolescent girls retain their confidence while conventionally schooled girls appear to lose confidence in the teenage years call into question some of Gilligan's findings about girls' development. Homeschooling families of profoundly gifted children of both genders will find this book fascinating to read, hopeful in its conclusions, and thought-provoking.
 
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