Creating Educational Justice

Cheryl Fields-Smith

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Harvard Educational Publishing Group
30 April 2025

Educational strategies & policy; Inclusive education & mainstreaming; Open learning, home learning, distance education

A thoughtful, research-based discussion of Black homeschool experiences as models for educational improvement in K–12 public education

In Creating Educational Justice, Cheryl Fields-Smith upholds the decisions of Black parents to homeschool their children as acts of empowerment, resistance, and educational justice. The work spotlights the various motivations of Black families to home educate, bringing attention to key issues facing K–12 public schooling in the United States.

Fields-Smith shares the voices and perspectives of sixty Black home educators from a range of demographic backgrounds. Many of these families moved to homeschooling after students began their formal education in public schools, citing both problems endemic to US public schools (curriculum limitations, teacher shortages, and inadequate resources) and those faced particularly by Black students (marginalization of Black parents’ engagement, deficit narratives surrounding Black student ability, discriminatory disciplinary practices, and overrepresentation in special education) as reasons for their switch. Their stories demonstrate the many ways in which Black home education curates learning opportunities that promote positive identity development and racial healing, as well as academic success, in ways that traditional schools often cannot.

Fields-Smith argues that public educators can learn much from Black homeschool parents’ decision-making, folk pedagogy, and educational practice. This work offers a wealth of constructive feedback for teachers, school administrators, and policymakers that can inform teacher education practices, school administration approaches, and education reform measures and help build stronger school-family-community partnerships.

By: Cheryl Fields-Smith
Imprint: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781682539682
ISBN 10: 1682539687
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 30 April 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cheryl Fields-Smith is professor of elementary education in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the Mary Frances Early College of Education, University of Georgia. She is a former elementary school teacher.

Reviews for Creating Educational Justice

""Fields-Smith's research goes beyond quantitative and qualitative analysis of data but is evidence of the collective work and responsibility of Black home educators in their commitment to not only educate their own children, but their self-determination to educate communities. In doing so, these parents have created value and maximized the use of resources within their geography of opportunity. This is more than a book about Black home educators, but a book about agency, resistance, freedom and culture--essential ingredients to lifelong learning.""--Kathaleena Edward Monds, professor and founding director of the Center for Educational Opportunity, Albany State University ""This is a powerful exploration of why Black families are increasingly choosing to educate their children and teens at home. Through a meta-analysis of 63 Black home educators, Fields-Smith highlights homeschooling as a tool for fostering agency, self-determination, and addressing the opportunity gap. An incredible, essential read for all those interested in home education.""--Gina Riley, program director and professor of special education, CUNY Hunter College